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,…
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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…
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…
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…
Fox’s Garden being handed to fourth generation
CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/CHRIS MCLEAN Tyler (right) and Todd (center) Waye are following in the footsteps of their father, Gary, as second-generation owners and operators of Fox Garden Supply. Family-owned businesses run on trust –and sometimes that…
Keep the garden going this winter with these tips
This is a great time to clean the tools before spring. Diana C. Kirby for American-Statesman Central Texas, with its yo-yolike erratic weather, rarely has a serious winter. I mean a Buffalo, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Minn.;…
Welwyn Garden City residents hit by water supply problems
Homes in Welwyn Garden City have been hit by water supply problems this morning. Affinity Water say they are now repairing a burst water main on Brownfields after receiving a number of calls from residents.…
Fox’s Garden being handed to fourth generation
Family-owned businesses run on trust –and sometimes that means telling a customer not to buy whatever plant or product they’ve just set down next to the cash register. At Fox’s Garden Supply, that can mean…
Plan and budget for a good return on your garden investment
This April 2010 photo taken near New Market, Va., shows a large supply of vegetables awaiting transplanting into home gardens. Buying supplies in bulk and then dividing them with your neighbors will provide a healthy…