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Gardening enthusiasts celebrate 20 years

Gloucestershire Gazette - Dursley,England,UK
A SOCIETY of green-fingered flower enthusiasts celebrate 20 years since humble beginnings as a small gathering that flourished into a group of 200 members.
Gardening enthusiasts celebrate 20 years

Rules meant to be broken

Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
A frazzled customer steered a groaning cartload of perennials through the aisles of the garden centre.
“Can you help me?” she asked. “I’m not sure what I should get.
Rules meant to be broken

Gardeners warned about contaminated manure

Cotswold Journal - UK
GARDENERS in the Cotswolds and throughout Gloucestershire should make their own compost to reduce the risk of unwittingly harming their gardens with herbicide-contaminated manure.
Gardeners warned about contaminated manure

Local food movement in our yards, on our plates

The Almanac Online - Menlo Park,CA,USA
Sarah Machado climbs into the back of her truck at the Menlo Park Farmers’ Market and emerges with four small pots of chives for a waiting customer. It’s a sunny Sunday morning, and her stand has a steady flow of customers, scoping out the lemon cucumber, heirloom tomato, and mammoth [...]

Mom’s gardening style

Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
She is my mother, so I only know some things about her, and not necessarily the ones she would think most important. Her gardening, for example, escaped my notice for several decades.
Mom’s gardening style

Competitive green-thumbs

Chicago Tribune - United States
Showcasing gargantuan gourds and breathtaking blooms, Olympics-like competitions get gardeners flexing their green thumbs
Competitive green-thumbs

Vegetable gardening is cool. Who knew?

San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
On Earth Day this year, Julia Roberts demonstrated composting on Oprah’s TV show. Also recently, centenarian-tracking “Today Show” weather forecaster Willard Scott called on Americans to revive the victory gardens of the World War II era.
Vegetable gardening is cool. Who knew?

Robert Irwin still marvels at Getty gardens 10 years later

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The artist, creator of the controversial gardens, may no longer have design oversight but his vision has established deep roots.
Robert Irwin still marvels at Getty gardens 10 years later

A whimsical British garden, thanks to a duchess

International Herald Tribune - France
‘The criticism I’ve had is just massive,” said the Duchess of Northumberland, as she led a visitor through the Bamboo Labyrinth of Alnwick Garden. “It’s really staggering the way that Britain views this project. They said I am to gardens what Imelda Marcos is to shoes.”
A whimsical British garden, thanks to [...]

Gardeners fear for future of allotments

NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,England,UK
There are 30 gardens on the site behind the Nelson public house on Chapel Street, which are used to grow flowers, vegetables and fruit.
Research shows the land has been used as allotments since 1913 but now the owners are planning to sell up, meaning the gardeners might have to move out.

Gardeners [...]