Consummate Home Connoisseurs
A well-managed garden appears to be in a natural state of perfection. The waving flowers beckon, rich green foliage prevails and weeds are absent. The outside world and its cares fall aside when visitors enter these quiet spaces, and the garden becomes life’s expression.
These gardens are, as former Cornerstone Sonoma Garden and General Manager Dawn Smith described them, “Places that people repeatedly come back to for solace, peace and happy memories. They are spaces that give people joy no matter if they are wealthy or not. The gardens are there for everyone.”
On Sept. 11, 2001, Ruth McCourt and her 4-year-old daughter Juliana McCourt, of New London, boarded United Flight 175 in Boston, bound for Disneyland. They were both killed when their plane was hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center’s north tower.
Twenty years after their tragic deaths, family and friends gathered on Friday at the McCourt 9/11 Memorial Garden created in their honor on the grounds of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum to remember the mother and daughter, and all those who died with them in the attacks.
Mary Bryant McCourt, who wed Ruth McCourt’s widower David
Protecting the soil over the winter months is a top priority for me in my organic garden. I have a clay-loam soil, which is rich in nutrients, but can easily become waterlogged and prone to compaction over the wettest part of the year.
Protecting the soil in a winter garden primarily involves keeping the soil covered and maintaining a living root in the soil whenever possible, for as long as possible. This involves growing winter crops with appropriate mulches and using cover crops or green manures that will either remain in place over the winter, to be chopped and dropped
The Tulsa Garden Railroad Club is hosting an event that will give anyone the chance to see some elaborate backyard model train setups.
The sound of a train whistle can be heard when walking into Bob and Shelia Buttram’s backyard.
“We’ve always called it Green Acres and we try to keep it green,” said Bob.
It’s a place where your imagination makes the rules.
“What’s in your mind, you just run with it,’ Bob said.
Their garden railroad is a passion project 16 years in the making.
“In 2005 we started working on this. I went to a home show,
“But the time that she did spend here, they just wanted to make sure that she was happy and she was loved,” said Graves.
Blake was so impressed by the garden James and Mary planted for their boss, she contacted KOB 4 to help Pay it 4ward with $400.
Blake told James and Mary they were having their picture taken for something else.
“I know that your owner is Trish, but that’s also your sister and your friend, and I know that you feel for her having had so many surgeries. So as a thank you, I just want to
Grow it Green: Bedrock Gardens
Updated: 1:04 PM EDT Aug 31, 2021
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