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The Seattle Home Show begins Saturday and continues through Feb. 26. Here are five things to see:
The second week of February is time to celebrate a symphony of spring. And it will be easy to do so this week at the Northwest Flower & Garden show.
The first week of February is for early bloomers. Forsythia is budding and crocuses are popping.
Is your post-holiday refrigerator filled with the aging remains of New Year’s Eve party food, molding cheese and ham that’s well into its second curing? Are counters covered in gift basket remnants?
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Sharpen your shears this week and get outdoors for some winter pruning. You can get snippy with plenty of plants now, but there also are some you should not be pruning.
You may think I’m all wet, but I’ve decided to talk about condensation, only because I receive a lot of questions about foggy windows in the winter.
The third week of January is the start of the gardening season – yep, the Tacoma Home and Garden Show will be Jan. 25-29 followed by the Northwest Flower and Garden Show Feb. 8-12, and then a bumper crop of garden shows, plant sales and blooming celebrations to welcome the growing season of 2012.
The second week of January has the Christmas decorations finally packed away so there is room to improve your indoor space. Speaking of space, it was NASA that confirmed what gardeners have suspected all along – indoor plants are good for your health. Certain houseplants actually clean and purify polluted indoor air. Some houseplants do this better than others.
The job of a homemaker is 20 percent more physically demanding than that of a clerical worker, according to a survey by the National Institute of Health and Nutrition and J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo.
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The lemon beebalm or purple horsemint has simply been incredible this spring and is continuing to show despite some record heat for our region. Here at the National Butterfly Center this native plant was used extensively as part of the Geoffrey McAllen Memorial Native Grassland and Wildflower Refugium which is planted around the Visitor Pavilion.
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When the tomatoes are finally planted, any old daffodil foliage is cut back and the beds are weeded and mulched, it's time to add the final touch of perfection -- tropicals that give your porches and patios a little island mystique.
This time of the year the garden comes alive with shasta daisies. It seems to bring a renewal to the spirit like few other flowers. I was recently in Columbus, Ga., and had the opportunity to tour the Columbus Botanical Garden. There they had several large informal drifts that literally took my breath away.
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