Tag: Gardens

Garden Talk: 8 things to do in Michigan gardens right now

July 28, 2022 admin

Sometimes we forget that gardening is done gradually throughout the growing season. There are several important actions to take in our gardens right now.

Let’s divide the gardens into flower gardens, vegetable gardens and our biggest garden: our lawns.

Flower gardens are filled with hungry plants right now.

There are at least two months of bright beauty left from annual flowers. This means we need to fertilize for blossoms, and fertilize sufficiently. I want to tell you to fertilize heavily, but you can fertilize too much. If you don’t know how to decide which fertilizer analysis to use, just get

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This gutsy woman is behind one of Sonoma’s top gardens

September 15, 2021 admin

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.”

Her garden and team kept her going

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Grow it Green: Bedrock Gardens

September 8, 2021 admin

Grow it Green: Bedrock Gardens

AFTERNOON. RAY: WELCOME. WE ARE AT BEDROCK GARDENS. AMI JOINED BY JOHN, PRETTY SPECTACULAR PLACE. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT OVERALL?>> AND OASIS OF HORTICULTURE, ART AND INSPIRATION. 37 ACRE DAIRY FARM,IX MED USE FARM REPURPOSED INTO A NEW PUBLIC GARDEN FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE. IT HAS ROOM AFTER ROOM OF GARDENS THAT TAKE YOU ONF JOURNEYS. A VOLUNTEER COORDINATE OR LIKES TO SAY HER BLOOD PRESSURE GOES DOWN 20 POINTS WHEN SHE WALKS THROUGH THE GARDEN. YOU WILL FIND NATIVE PLANTINGS, AMAZING BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS

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Lose the lawn: This Ann Arbor group will plant native gardens for free

September 7, 2021 admin

ANN ARBOR, MI — Vera Irwin doesn’t understand grass.

That is, she doesn’t understand why anyone would want a lawn full of it.

“It’s not pretty,” said Irwin, of Ann Arbor. “It requires maintenance for nothing. It’s your Saturday, Sunday. Why would you get on your tractor and make sure you have short grass?”

Irwin isn’t alone. She’s one of 57 people who had gardens of native plants installed or supported by Adapt: Community-supported Ecology last year.

Adapt, founded and directed by William and Nell Kirst, is an Ann Arbor-based volunteer organization that installs native plant gardens in people’s yards

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Rise Gardens Double Family Garden review: A smart indoor greenhouse

August 21, 2021 admin

If you liked the Miracle-Gro Twelve Indoor Growing System we reviewed in early 2020, but want to grow larger quantities of herbs, fresh leafy greens, and other vegetables indoors and without soil, you’ll gobble up what Rise Gardens has to offer.

The $749 Double Family Garden sent for this review can accommodate up to 24 plants in its two growing trays, and you can stack a third tray ($200) on top and use high-capacity tray lids to grow up to 108 plants. The sturdy trays are fabricated from metal, but they have plastic inserts and plastic lids, both of which

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11 Best Dog-Friendly Restaurant Patios and Beer Gardens Around DC

August 17, 2021 admin

Spend the dog days of summer hanging out with your pooch (and plenty of water and shade!) on one of these pup-friendly patios around DC. Many of these places go above and beyond with puppy ice cream, dog beer—yes, that’s a thing—and even off-leash play areas. Also, National Dog Day is coming up on August 26, and we’ve got a few ideas on how to celebrate our favorite furry friends.

Bardo
25 Potomac Ave., SE
Head to this huge dog-friendly beer garden in Navy Yard near Nationals Park with your pup (or three). There’s plenty of space for your pup

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Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence | Senegal News

July 31, 2021 admin

Every night, Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.

Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania.

He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of such gardens – known as “Tolou Keur”

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