Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Container gardens rewarding – Monterey County Herald


Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Container gardens rewarding
Monterey County Herald
For a break from maintaining your plants in the ground, and an opportunity to add interest to your landscape, try container gardening. Growing plants in containers gives gardeners many of the challenges and rewards associated with landscape gardening.
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Seeking Serenity in a Patch of California Land – New York Times


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Seeking Serenity in a Patch of California Land
New York Times
The thinking of community leaders and health professionals is that gardens can help foster resiliency and a sense of purpose for refugees, especially older ones, who are often isolated by language and poverty and experiencing depression and post ...

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Gardening to Distraction: P is for peonies – The Rolla Daily News


Gardening to Distraction: P is for peonies
The Rolla Daily News
One of my old gardening books suggests when plants first started blooming a few million years back, peonies developed nectar to attract bugs to move pollen and ensure their survival. I like peonies because of their beauty; their lovely scent; the ...

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THE DIRT ON GARDENING: Choose your pool plants wisely – 15 Hours Ago – Goshen News


THE DIRT ON GARDENING: Choose your pool plants wisely - 15 Hours Ago
Goshen News
Litter-free plants and trees around your pool and pond areas means less maintenance. TOM YODER | THE GOSHEN NEWS. Pool with plants. May 24, 2013. THE DIRT ON GARDENING: Choose your pool plants wisely. By TOM YODER COLUMNIST The ...

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Trowel & Glove: Marin gardening calendar for the week of May 25, 2013 – Marin Independent Journal


Trowel & Glove: Marin gardening calendar for the week of May 25, 2013
Marin Independent Journal
The Bolinas Museum offers spring garden tours at various gardens in Stinson Beach on May 25 and in Bolinas on May 26. $30 to $35. Call 868-8809 or go to www.bolinasmuseum.org to register and for directions. • West Marin Commons offers a weekly ...

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Gardening Q&A: Remove daffodils’ faded blooms – The Coloradoan


Gardening Q&A: Remove daffodils' faded blooms
The Coloradoan
In a highly visible location, gardeners may prefer to treat spring-flowering bulbs as an annual of sorts, planting in the fall, allowing the bulbs to bloom in the spring, then removing the spent bulbs entirely and adding them to compost, leaving a ...

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Gardening tips: Local, regional gardens have plenty to offer for children – The Coloradoan


Gardening tips: Local, regional gardens have plenty to offer for children
The Coloradoan
Or head south to Denver Botanic Gardens, 909 York Street, Denver, (www.botanicgardens.org) and their Mordeci Children's Garden. Totally renovated a few years ago, this three acre garden, located above the parking garage is home to Marmot Mountain, ...

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Organic Gardening Yields Fun Results For Anyone – Gazette Newspapers


Organic Gardening Yields Fun Results For Anyone
Gazette Newspapers
I give this advice to new members at our community gardens, and the same goes for home gardeners wanting to grow organic food. Just start, and start small. You don't need to plant your whole yard at once. You don't need to build raised beds or import soil.

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