Home and Garden - Landscaping and Gardening

Garden Mulch
Garden mulch properly used will promote plant health and the appearance of your landscape. Some garden mulches may lower soil pH slightly, but this tendency can be counteracted by applying lime to the landscape.

Cool Season Annuals
Cool weather can be hard to garden in, because you never know how long it will last. But there are many annual flowers that prefer the cool days of spring and fall. Many cool season annuals look wonderful in containers and growing these flowers will make your gardening season seem that much longer. If you live in a warm climate, some of these flowers will bloom from fall through spring.

Shade Garden Perennials
Shade gardens can be woodland retreats or bursts of color. Many shade garden plants often considered sun lovers actually prefer some shade in hot areas or the peak of summer. Of the many plants that will grow well or even thrive in shade gardens, the following list are top shade garden performers.

hammerhead :: Feb.29.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

On deck to bring it home
Allentown Morning Call - Only some landscaping, minor paving and carpeting at the east Allentown stadium remain to be finished. So, many of the aforementioned bigwigs gathered Wednesday to watch a ceremonial key-and-check exchange between team co-owner Joe Finley (he gave

hammerhead :: Feb.28.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Sew Your Own Removable Cushion Covers
Full online directons to make your own cushions and removable covers for your garden, patio, or benches, using fabric scraps

hammerhead :: Feb.27.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Grenadier Pond Love Story - National Post

National Post

Grenadier Pond Love Story National Post, Canada - 22 hours ago Saturday after lunch I went to Grenadier Pond in High Park to check whether the ice was right for skating. As I crested the hill from the Grenadier …

hammerhead :: Feb.26.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Venture Crew hosts Chocolate Cafe for Valentine’s Day
Nashua Telegraph - Are you ready to shift into organic lawn care practices? This intensive and interesting course will turn you into a more accomplished gardener. Beaver Brook Association has space in its fifth annual Accomplished Gardener’s course. The course covers

hammerhead :: Feb.25.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Cozy dream
Times-News - This home as a gated entry, paved drive, detached garage/workship, wine house that could be used as a studio or home office, private vineyard and a koi pond all over looking a private lake. SCHOOLS:

hammerhead :: Feb.24.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Front Yard Gardens
Small Space Gardening - Front Yard Gardens

Landscaping Ideas, Pics
Consult these landscaping ideas and pictures for free design help (but pics are NOT royalty-free). These landscaping pictures and ideas will help your home improvement projects in the yard.

Garden Design Principles
Garden design is often broken down into design principles: Order/Balance/Proportion, Harmony or Unity and Flow, Transition or Rhythm. These categories contain the basic elements that, when combined together, constitute the generally accepted version of good garden design.

hammerhead :: Feb.23.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Garden events: What's on this week (Feb 23 - March 2) - Telegraph.co.uk

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Garden events: What's on this week (Feb 23 - March 2) Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 16 hours ago 24 Join a plant hunters' tour of the ornamental gardens at Doddington Hall, Lincoln, from 10am until 12.30pm. Tickets £11.95 (RHS members £9.95), … Garden notes: Shows focus on exotic blooms The Star-Ledger - NJ.com all 3 news articles

hammerhead :: Feb.22.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

New Plants for 2008.
The plants showcased here are some of the new introductions for 2008 - flowers, vegeatbles, roses and shrubs. Every gardener has favorite plants they rely on and grow every year, but we all like to try something new once in awhile. Hundreds, if not thousands of new plant varieties are developed and each year. Some of them won’t stand the test of time, but many are too tempting to pass up. Take a look to see if any might look good in your garden.

Garden Design - Color
Color is arguably the most prominent factor in a garden design and often the first one considered. Good garden design involves knowing how to combine colors so that the final product has a cohesive and pleasing effect. Here are some tips to train your eye to see color and for combining color in the garden.

Growing Hardy Mums
Mums are grown in just about every fall garden. Too often mums are an impulse buy at the nursery, when already in bloom late in the season. Chrysanthemums can actually be hardy perennials in most gardening zones, if planted early enough to become established. Mums are easy growing plants that will bloom as other plants fade, if pinched during the growing season. There are many more varieties of mums than you’ve probably seen, all worth taking a look.

hammerhead :: Feb.21.2008 :: General :: No Comments »

Local businesses to showcase wares at Home & Flower Show
HamptonRoads.com - The Virginia Horticultural Foundation organized myriad speakers to address gardening topics, including 2006 Horticultural Communicator of the Year Paul Tukey, who will discuss making the transition to healthy and eco-friendly organic lawn care.

hammerhead :: Feb.20.2008 :: General :: No Comments »