Landscape Trees and Shrubs: Choosing and Planting Garden Trees and Shrubs (Black & Decker Outdoor Home Gardening)
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unlike the architect whose house has a perpetually leaking roof, or the cobbler whose shoes need mending, Michael Pollan has a new garden that speaks of a professional who practices what he preaches. For the author and journalism professor - who has almost...
GardenDesignOnline (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Just think ... how nice it would be to have an entire suburban street with landscapes like this one ... entire streets without lawns! It's just one of the new ideas that could become a reality ... thanks to the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI), a collaborative effort to persuade homeowners,...
The Obsessive Gardener (Free subscription) | yesterday
I love garlic! And I was reading about garlic planting on so many blogs that I just had to find a way to get it done this fall in my garden. I hadn't purchased any specialty garlic for planting, instead, I just headed to the grocery store and bought 8 bulk garlic bulbs. I did this a couple of years ago with great success. The garlic doesn't taste the same after it grows in your garden - it improves...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Dahlia has been growing beneath the Sambuca Nigra shrub, and is blooming away now. Despite the cold weather and incessant rain it has grown into a beautiful pink bloom. The garden is starting to close down, ready for its winter slumber. The flower is so heavy that it hangs down. I had to hold it up to photograph it. This is only the Second Dahlia bloom this year. There was a single Crimson one...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
EcoConsumer Tom Watson answers frequently asked questions about water-efficient toilets.
Foodycat (Free subscription) | yesterday
You may remember that last year I made marmalade from our ornamental quinces . This year our crop was a lot smaller (the knobbly one is from the bonsai quince that Captain Haddock is growing) and I decided to try something different. My plan was to peel and core them, poach them until tender in a sugar syrup and then preserve them in brandy. Well that didn't really work out at all. They collapsed in...
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every Friday! Here are all the home and garden sales across the country - painstakingly collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers. This is only place on the web where you can find them all
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
An easy-care garden starts with a little planning and a few weekly tasks.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ed the Plumber: This week's topics are on electric toilets, water pressure and septic tanks.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
AS ANY keen veg grower knows, it's sensible to rotate your crops.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The economy has clobbered many young, single men. And when bachelors scale down, crash pads replace seductive lairs.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The long-reigning diva of “Guiding Light,” the soap opera whose 57-year run on television ended in September, shopped for furnishings and affordable creature comforts.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sturgis Warner, a theater director, uses contraptions he built to make the most of his space in a fifth-floor walk-up in the East Village.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Styled like a French country château, a Whidbey Island home features fine craftsmanship, soaring ceilings and enough nooks and crannies to make both princes and hobbits feel comfortable.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The classic English hedgerow can be adapted to modern urban and suburban gardens just fine, helping add color and texture to smaller gardens while also giving shelter to birds, bees, butterflies and more.
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