Q: How can I create a bee-friendly garden? – Elisa, Shokan A: By providing nectar and pollen as food and creating shelters in your garden space, you will create new habitat for bees, which is important, as…
Garden Supply
Pot luck: What to buy – and what not to buy – at the garden centre
So you want all the plants? Photograph: Getty It’s that time of year again when Ireland’s garden centres, hardware stores and supermarket chains are filled with cheery displays of annual bedding plants brimful of colour,…
Why heat-tolerant marigolds are perfect for Texas gardens
If you’re searching for the perfect flower for North Texas, you don’t need wizardry skills. Cheerful, hearty marigolds are heat-tolerant and easy to grow in poor soil, plus they produce beautiful blooms. Marigolds are easy-care, hardy…
Adelaide weather for April continues to be hot and dry, hitting gardens and water supply
SOUTH Australia’s continuing dry spell is taking a toll on gardens and water supply. Only 14.2mm of rain has been recorded at the weather bureau’s West Tce rain gauge so far this year, with little…
A new app called Garden helps you stay in touch with friends and family without Facebook
Facebook has become the de facto way people today keep up with their friends and family and, at times, their wider network of professional acquaintances and colleagues. But its inattention to user data protection…
Good information can up your gardening game
Before you plant a lot of money in your seed catalog order, maybe do a little research first. Photo pixabay, Creative Commons, some rights reserved Before the catalog orders, before the big tab at the nursery,…
City evaluating three potential replacement sites for Sheboygan Avenue Community Garden
Flowers bloom at the Sheboygan Avenue Community Gardens in October 2015. Gardeners were forced to relocated from the site at 4802 Sheboygan Ave. because of the state’s planned redevelopment of the Department of Transportation property on…
Gardening May Help Cancer Survivors Eat Better, Feel Greater ‘Worth’
FILE – Sweet peppers are seen in a garden in Virginia. (Photo: D. Bekheet). Share For cancer survivors, three seasons of home vegetable gardening may increase physical activity, fruits and vegetables in the diet and…
Husband-and-wife teams on what it takes to run a garden center
Wife-and-husband team Alice Longfellow and Bob Call took lessons from the businessess their parents established but built their own garden center from the ground up. By Michelle Simakis Editor’s note: Though family-owned companies are not…
Garden column: Cyclamen a beautiful choice
If you are looking for a plant to enhance your decorations or give as a gift and you want to avoid the usual poinsettias, you might consider a cyclamen. Cyclamen persicum is the plant you…