• Jillian Logan: It’s time to enjoy your garden

    TAKE stock of the garden for its shade, entertaining ability, seating, nooks and crannies and wind shelter from a few different directions. It’s at this time of year, when we have a few days break for the festive season and New Year celebrations, that we can get outside and enjoy the garden and pleasant weather. […]

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    GOCO grant will fund Manaugh school garden in Cortez

    Great Outdoors Colorado awarded $340,000 to projects in Montezuma and La Plata counties last week. The Southwest Conservation Corps got a $25,200 Youth Corps grant for the Montezuma School to Farm Project at Manaugh Elementary in Cortez, according to a news release from the agency issued earlier this month. A portion of the grant will […]

  • Students to build amphitheater for Ohana Kuleana garden

    High school students will build a new amphitheater for the Ohana Kuleana Community Garden in June thanks to a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado. The $25,200 grant announced in December will pay high school students to work for the Southwestern Conservation Corps this summer and build the amphitheater and a school garden at Manaugh Elementary […]

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    Fast relief for garden – State rushes to get tea estate reopened to save face

    Samsing Tea Estate. Picture by Biplab Basak Jalpaiguri, Dec. 24: The Bengal administration has intervened to reopen a Dooars tea garden within seven days of its closure because of alleged vandalism by a Trinamul-backed union. Sources said the administration showed unusual alacrity in fast-tracking negotiations to open Samsing Tea Estate, which employs 1,460 labourers, because […]

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    In Mumbai: Citizen group gets notice for misuse of garden

    The Malabar Hill Citizen Forum, which is in charge of maintaining the 20-acre Priyadarshani Park at Napean Sea Road, has been served a notice by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for allegedly misusing the park and conducting commercial activities on it. According to the notice sent by the BMC, a gymnasium and recreation room were […]

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    The garden shed full of helping hands

    Media captionWATCH: Team Unlimbited’s 3D-printed limbs are changing lives At first glance, the shed, in a back garden in Swansea, doesn’t look remarkable. Step closer and you’ll hear the whirring of a hard-working machine. Open the door and, while I’d like to tell you it is Tardis-like inside, it isn’t. Every inch of space is […]

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    Enjoy fresh vegetables year round with a kitchen garden

    The kitchen garden should be protected with wire mesh. Have you ever imagined the magic feeling of grabbing fresh fruits and vegetables at any time straight from your home garden no matter the size of the backyard? Even if you are not a fun of gardening, a kitchen garden will gradually motivate you and your […]

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    SEE PIC: Sridevi meets Sasikala at Poes Garden

    Actor Sridevi met VK Sasikala Natarajan, confidant of late J Jayalalithaa at Poes Garden in Chennai today (December 27). According to reports, Sridevi also paid homage to J Jayalalithaa, who passed away on December 5th. She was buried next to her mentor MG Ramachandran at the MGR Memorial in Marina beach. ALSO READ: Did Thala […]

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    Police trim presence as private guards take charge at Poes Garden

    Private security guards posted at Poes Garden in Chennaion Monday.— Photo: R. RaguR. Ragu In the wake of widespread criticism about the heavy deployment of police force at Poes Garden even after the demise of former chief minister Jayalalithaa, the strength of the police personnel has been drastically reduced. Senior police officials confirmed that they […]

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    Ancient Underwater Potato Garden Uncovered in Canada

    Submerged rock pavement (shown here) would have allowed the indigenous people to control how far their tubers grew, making for easier harvesting. Credit: Katzie Development Limited Partnership This harvest came 3,000 years too late. Hundreds of blackened potatoes were pulled out of the ground at a prehistoric garden in British Columbia, Canada. Dating back to […]

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    Art in the Garden

    Tracy DiSabato-Aust, author of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden and The Well-Designed Mixed Garden , made this interesting assertion at a garden design seminar that I attended today: “Garden art … we’re not talking about the little wooden bent-over lady you see everywhere … but true art … is a necessity in the garden today….” That […]