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Garden club to host trip to Pa. gardens (Edison Sentinel)

The Terra Nova Garden Club of North Edison will host a bus trip to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., a horticultural showplace purchased by Pierre S. DuPont in 1906. The bus will leave the Pearl Street Parking Lot in Metuchen (off Route 27 and New Street) on Saturday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. and return at approximately 8:30 p.m.

Loowit grew it: Teen garden grows produce & pride (The Daily News)

In just one growing season, teens from Loowit High School in Kelso have tilled, sown and tended three raised beds of vegetables, herbs and flowers; planted apple trees; stocked and maintained a greenhouse and shared a 200-pound harvest with the Emergency Support Shelter.

DACC campus adds garden gateway (The Danville Commercial-News)

The Danville Area Community College campus will be a bit more beautified this spring, thanks to a generous donor and some enterprising landscape design students.

The right plants help (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

No plant is fireproof, but there are some species of plants that have a natural ability to resist fire. The types of plants surrounding a home or building and where they are planted can make a difference during a fire.

'Flower Power': National Garden Clubs Inc. Members Help Health-Care Facilities, Special-Needs Centers Nationwide ... (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 18, 2008 -- When residents of Lee Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pennington Gap, Va., roll their wheelchairs into the courtyard, they are greeted not only by a spirit-lifting purple-and-yellow array of flowers and herbs, but also by comforting scents.

14:30 (BST), 18/11/2008 Ninjatown Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS A backyard farmer by nature, this Ninja's ... (gamesindustry.biz)

A backyard farmer by nature, this Ninja's abundance of spicy-hot wasabi peas in the garden gave him an idea: Pick out the hottest of the bunch, and use 'em as ammo! After all, the highly-accurate, hand-carved slingshot would otherwise sit in his desk drawer and that would be a total waste.