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Architect of a Lovely Garden

Wall Street Journal - USA
Ask most people about English gardening in Edwardian days and the name Gertrude Jekyll springs to their lips. Jekyll (pronounced like treacle), who died in 1932, had an enormous influence on the design, structure and color scheme of the Edwardian garden and in particular the flower border.
Architect of a Lovely Garden

10 Surprising Truths About Organic Gardening

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Jeff Gillman teaches horticulture at the University of Minnesota and has investigated the science behind many popular organic techniques. In The Truth About Organic Gardening…
10 Surprising Truths About Organic Gardening

Gardening books give us pause, inspiration

Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
It was a good year for garden books. Not so much the kind that tell you to plant your petunias 2½ feet apart and fertilize weekly
Gardening books give us pause, inspiration

Gardening close to home

Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Standing in the gardening section at a local bookstore, you stare dazedly.
The choices are overwhelming.
Gardening close to home

Prof’s new book focuses on critical role of native plants

University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA
–Delaware’s native plants make it possible for the state’s 850,000 people to exist, says Douglas Tallamy, chairperson of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at UD.
Prof’s new book focuses on critical role of native plants

Garden Book: ‘Life in the Soil’

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
If the earth moves you, then this is where you’ll get all the best dirt on what lives, what dies and how everything in the soil is connected by an ever-expanding web of life.
Garden Book: ‘Life in the Soil’

Girl Scouts create prairie flower guide

Onalaska Life - Onalaska,WI,USA
Stopping to smell the flowers on the Holland Sand Prairie could be a little more informative thanks to the work of three Holmen Girl Scouts who unveiled a flower identification guide last week.
Girl Scouts create prairie flower guide

New book on Montana gardening

Montana State University - United States
A new book is aimed at helping Montana gardeners cope with the state’s difficult growing conditions.
“The Montana Gardener’s Companion: An Insider’s Guide to Gardening Under the Big Sky”
New book on Montana gardening is released

Publication to Cease for House & Garden

New York Times - United States
House & Garden, one of the nation’s oldest magazines, will close after the abrupt departure of its publisher and years of losses for its parent, Condé Nast Publications, the company said yesterday.
Publication to Cease for House & Garden