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- Barbara Hulscher traces her love of lavender to a childhood home in Ohio, where the gardens were filled with the fragrant flower. She enjoyed the scent wafting through the air and the hum of bees going about their work.
Barbara Hulscher traces her love of lavender to a childhood home in Ohio, where the gardens were filled with the fragrant flower. She enjoyed the scent wafting through the air and the hum of bees going about their work.
As condo living increases, for many of us balconies have become our summer backyards.
If you’re looking to keep your table top spill-free or just liven up a dinner setting, try one of these place mat styles:
Celebrate Independence Day with a fireworks display of flowers in the garden.
It doesn’t get any greener than junk, according to Sue Whitney and Kimberly Melamed.
If you’re wondering whether it’s too late to add trees and shrubs to the landscape at the end of June, the answer is dig in and just grow for it – with some warnings. Trees and shrubs sold in containers at nurseries usually are safe to add to the garden any time the ground is not frozen. But only if you live in Western Washington.
A stumpery is one of six private gardens that make up this year’s garden tour on Vashon Island today and Sunday.
With summer finally here, we are seeing lots of ideas for ways to cut our energy costs. What do you recommend as the best things to do to stay comfortable in hot weather without paying sky-high power bills?
Chefs know it. The Food Network preaches it. Amateur cooks admit it: Freshly picked herbs are more delicious than anything you’ll find on a spice rack.
I imagine we all get the feeling at one time or another that our home needs a good shake-up.
We tend to think of leaves as green and flowers as anything but. Nevertheless, nature put a bit of green on the palette of flower colors, too.
The uses of gravel in American gardens typically conjure up images of drainage swales, the fringes on the sides of the road and a cheap alternative to an asphalt driveway.
By the third week of June, your beans should be up, peas in flower and corn plants emerging from the soil.
I recently moved into an older home with hardwood floors that squeak badly. How can I stop the noise? – A. Anddover
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