Garden Types News

Home and Garden Digest, Feb. 4, 2012: UCSC farm will ease blueberry worries

Farm will ease blueberry worries The UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden is introducing a class on blueberries 10 a.

Sharon Hill, This Week in the Garden: Garden excitement grows as seeds arrive

After all these years of gardening, seeds still seem magical to me. That such a tiny package can hold all that is needed to grow into a head of lettuce for dinner, or a shade tree for the patio, or a poppy for the garden still boggles my mind.

Naha gardens within a garden

Amere 10-minute walk across busy Route 58 from the polyglot sidewalks, hotels and souvenir shops of Kokusai-dori, the faintly grubby, undulating Chinese boundary walls of a green enclosure announce the presence of a garden known as Fukushu-en. Somehow it doesn't feel in the slightest bit incongruous to be visiting a Chinese garden in the city of Naha. Okinawan emissaries sent from the Kingdom of ...

Tempe elementary school integrates garden into curriculum

About 20 second-graders in Kristine Baglini's class sit on hay bales outside the library. They kick their feet against the bales, talking excitedly to each other with eyes wandering over the raised pl

Yard and Garden: Know terms to buy right seeds, plants

Although words in seed catalogs might seem unfamiliar, it is important to understand their meaning.

Somerville Garden Club to hold program on outdoor design

Winter is the perfect time to begin thinking of the backyard improvements to transform your property. "Garden Design" is the topic at the February meeting of the Somerville Garden Club, Wednesday, Feb. 8., 7-9 p.m. SGC member Lori Fitz will give a presentation on designing a garden that works in your outdoor space.