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Book gives useful advice on cut-flower arranging

May 26, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

When a friend stopped by the other day to entice me to go plant shopping, I begged off because I had just begun reading a new gardening book and I couldn’t put it down.
“Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers,” by Linda Beutler (Timber Press $29.95) is a trove of information that [...]

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Danger: Plant Sales Ahead

May 23, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Plants

I HAD never seen such a flower before: a thistlelike blossom with so many golden-orange florets jutting willy-nilly out of its head that it had the look of a rakish pineapple, or Dorothy Lamour on the road.
“How tall does this get?” I asked a volunteer at the annual Herb and Garden Faire at the Landis [...]

Lawn soil needs critter food for a healthy lawn

May 16, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Feeding songbirds in the winter has become a national pastime. There is something very satisfying about watching those cute little birds flitting back and forth from shrubs to the feeders. Keeping those feeders filled makes us all feel good.
So how come most of us never think to feed the critters living in the soil under [...]

April showers (and snow and sun) bring May flowers

May 06, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers

Delicate, fragile and ephemeral are among the adjectives used to describe spring flowers. Nonsense! These plants are among the toughest on earth. Consider: Tuesday, April 17, we had 15 inches of snow. Monday, April 23, it was over 80 degrees. To survive a week like that and then to bloom enthusiastically is not a task [...]

Natural landscaping

April 27, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Landscaping

Farmers frequently condition their fields before planting, and under cloudy skies Wednesday in the courtyard at Sunnyside Elementary School, hundreds of students did just the same.
Only where farmers might use things like nitrogen and potash, the schoolchildren used something decidedly more wiggly: earthworms.
“Worms are like little farmers,” Pam Mace, chairman of the Sunnyside Parent–Teacher Organization’s [...]

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