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07.14: Hellstrip Gardening
2014-06-13 21:34:10| Powells Books Events Calendar
The hellstrip — the space between a street and a public sidewalk, also known as a tree park, boulevard, meridian, and planting strip — is finally getting the attention it deserves! Gardeners everywhere are taking advantage of the space as an environmentally friendly way to add curb appeal to their homes, expand the size of their gardens, and conserve resources. Evelyn Hadden's Hellstrip Gardening (Timber Press) is the first book to show you exactly how to reclaim this oft-ignored space.
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Green Leaf, Inc. to Proudly Support 2014 Indiana County Fair 4 - H Gardening with Special Awards
2014-05-15 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Company to Recognize 4-H Grand Prize Gardeners and Name 9 Regional Winners<br /> <br /> Fontanet, IN – Beginning with the 2014 Indiana county fair season, Green Leaf®, Incorporated, a Fontanet, Indiana manufacturer of agricultural products, will partner with Indiana 4-H Youth Development to recognize outstanding youth gardeners.<br /> <br /> “For countless years, 4-H has empowered and enriched the lives of youth from every corner of our country,” says Pete Goda, President of ...
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Gardening for climate change
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: From vicious drought to terrible storms, climate change is affecting people throughout the world. Writer Jim Barilla sees that climate change is being felt in his own urban garden in South Carolina. He tells host Steve Curwood how climate disruption has changed his gardening practice. Transcript CURWOOD: The White House has just released its third National Climate Assessment showing that every region of the country is already affected. Higher temperatures, rising sea-levels, more intense storms...
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Gardening for climate change
2014-05-04 15:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: THIS past winter was a tough one in our backyard. Where we live, about a hundred miles inland from the South Carolina coast, winter is normally a good time to make changes, like the swath of turf I removed from our front yard this year and replaced with perennial flowers and small tufts of native grass. But what is normal now in the garden? One week I'm sweating, the bees are buzzing, buds are breaking; the next, the birdbath is frozen and there's snow on the ground. Time and again, I found myself...
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Extreme gardening requires knowing where to shop
2014-05-04 09:57:29| Paper - Topix.net
I didn't expect that one of the hard-to-find landscape plants that I adore would have jumped by $2 from its 2013 price.
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