Using faux rocks in the pond and waterfall can make moving materials easier. Making rocks has come a long way in the past 20 years. I have seen faux waterfalls that definitely look real. Have a look.
Some ornamental grasses save their best displays for autumn. Such fall ornamental grasses "still give you a full growing season of swaying and rustling, but they shine among the rich...
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Effort to Save Everglades Falters as Funds Drop - New York Times: "Nathaniel P. Reed, a conservationist who was an assistant interior secretary in the Nixon and Ford administrations, said that Karl Rove, President Bush’s former political strategist, supported the restoration because he thought it was good politics — “the Bush brothers saving a dying ecosystem,” Mr. Reed said. . . .
I had gotten most of my bulbs planted two weeks ago until all I really had left was a mixed bag. I wasn't looking forward to trying to find homes for all 50 of these, so I came up with a brilliant plan.
I handed a trowel, a container of bone meal, and the bag of tulips to my son. I then told him to go out into the garden and pretend that he was a squirrel burying food for the winter. I explained that the bulbs needed to go into a hole at least 6" deep and that the bone meal needed to be worked into the bottom of the hole - but he had full control over where they were planted. . . .
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Photo by Meg under permission of the Creative Commons License 2.0
The most constant complaint I hear as to why people can not live a greener lifestyle is it is too inconvenient or just too hard. Believe it or not, just right outside your door are places which can help you create a greener lifestyle. That’s. . .
Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps...
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It happens every year; in the spring I tell Liz, 'You know, this year I'm just going to enjoy the garden as it is; I've got more plants now than I know what to do with." Then fall comes, with its bracing, energizing weather, and I start musing that maybe I do need a couple of more hydrangeas after all, and a cut-leaf Japanese maple would be just the thing to complement the new shrubs, and... well, you can see where this leads. My particular downfall this year was inheriting a whole pile of eight foot long railroad ties which were ripped out from an embankment in front of the house and replaced by two long block walls. You haven't known real fun until you've spent a day hauling large, creosote-soaked railroad ties all over the hilly garden. The little ravine slope in the picture just cried out for terraced beds, using some of these ties. Now I'm digging up the lower part of the hillside to plant some rhododendrons. But, next year I'm just going to take it easy and loaf...
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If you love the rustic look of woodcut prints, you’ll love using botanical rubber stamps you design and make yourself. An envelope made of repurposed brown bag paper– then stamped with your handcarved garden motif — makes the coolest seed packet in the known universe. Here’s a quick tutorial on the process. Fun!
You will need: Some [...]
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A 66-year old Sydney man died in hospital on Wednesday after an altercation with a younger man over watering restrictions. The man had been watering his lawn via a garden hose at 5:30pm when an argument between the two started. . . .
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This weekend I was looking for a book to read in my library and I picked up “A Country Year” by Sue Hubbell. This is the second time I read this book since buying it three years ago in a yard sale. The book is about the author’s life in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, living off the land as a beekeeper. Her description of the land, the people of the Ozarks, and her bees was riveting; I could not put it down. After reading the book I told myself this is the life I want. . . .
I'm finding a gray, powdery, fuzzy mold on plants in my greenhouse.. Mostly on the geranium blossoms and some of their leaves, also on the soil for the pomagranate babies and baby cacti. What is it? I have water plants in there in a pot too, and some leaks I have yet to fix.. Is it too humid because of this? Can anyone help or offer suggestions?
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We decided to place a vine over the trellis last spring. The little grapes were not going to grow much this year, so an annual vine would be great. Someone picked up a packet of hyacinth bean seeds from the horticulturally challenged Lowes. We were happy with the way the vine covered the trellis - for a month or so, then realised that this kudzu-like thing was rather more aggressive than anticipated. All summer it grew and grew and grew - we/I trimmed it back from attacking the lavender, it enveloped the petunias and by September when it was suppose to redeem itself as a pretty purple vine, it didn't. We thought we had a real kudzu look alike by now. Finally, just as the Womens Guild were touring, we found a flower. Just a little pale lavender flower. It really is a runt of a hyacynth bean but hyacinth it is. Since then, in the last 10 days, other flowers have appeared but we would be hard pressed to say that the thing is covered, or that there are enough to be noticed even. lets hope it does the decent thing and dies at first frost!
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When I looked out the window yesterday morning, I was greeted with the lovely sight of sparkling frost everywhere, so I quickly got myself dressed and headed out the door....to try and capture some of the beauty, before it disappeared!
Calendula 'Radio'
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Urban Sprouts would like to thank Mr. Ed Wilkins, Director of the San Francisco Student Nutrition Services (SNS) for his personal commitment to improve San Francisco’s public school lunches. Mr. Wilkins has informed Urban Sprouts that with a grant from Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office and the SF Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, SNS is installing salad bars in fifteen middle schools and high schools, including two Urban Sprouts' sites. Mr. Wilkins expressed that he expects a salad bar to open at June Jordan Small School for Equity and Excelsior Middle School (these two school share a cafeteria) in November 2007 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School shortly thereafter. In addition, SNS is working with vendors that can provide organic California grown produce to these salad bars. These are promising steps for our district to be taking for the health of our youth. We are deeply appreciative and hope Mr. Wilkins keeps up the good work!
The squirrels can be seen stashing away anything they can carry (I'm starting to think it will be a cold winter). Guess I am too. The freezer is full of summer harvests, now I have delicata squash and pumpkins in the garage.
This is my first year to grow delicata squash. It's said to have a sweet nutty flavor with hints of brown sugar and butter. Can't beat that in a squash! It also was quite a happy grower. I only have cooked one and that was an early one that broke off the plant. I think it wasn't quite ready to be eaten, though. I'll report back on these soon.
See 1,000 Daffodils for Cortelyou Road for details.
We're also looking for volunteers to plant along Beverly Road between East 16th and East 19th Streets. Leave a comment or send me an email if...
I've been away to Maui and Kauai for 10 days, and came back with loads of pictures to post. I just adore the native Hawaiian white hibiscus, kokio kea, kokio keokeo. Unfortunately, I was not able to purchase a cutting, I don't know why in the duty free shop they had only the (easily assessible from outside Hawaii) red and yellow cuttings.
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Moving from growing zone 5 in western MA to growing zone 7 in VA allows landscape gardening experimentation and realization of decades-old dreams of warm weather gardens.
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Silly of me to hold a contest with only two days before the winners are to be announced, and no ability for anyone to enter due to technical difficulties! So I figured I’d do it a little differently this first time: I’ve explored the creatures on all the blogs I frequent (and then some), and will announce the winners based on what I found!
Normally I would post the photos, but since I’ve entered these photos into the contest without the photographer’s official blessings, I will link to the amazing photos just this month.
So without further ado...
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via Bliss on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
I know we just finished the growing season, but I am always on the lookout for new things to grow next year. 
