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Add interest, whimsy and elegance to the garden with topiary
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Add interest, whimsy and elegance to the garden with topiary
Beyond the sliding glass doors of a rear bedroom, my backyard offers a quiet, unused space. A corner palm offers shade, and vines meander along the surface of the fence. Other than that, it’s a blank slate. There is little…
Summer is over and the children are in school, so it’s time to plan dinner parties with a few friends. Here are a few favor and placecard ideas to make each soirée fun and different! We chose inexpensive items…
Gardeners have known it for the longest time: Communing with nature is a beneficial and healthy endeavor. Now there’s research to back it up. According to a recent study at Virginia Tech University, “A view of trees may reduce the…
Peek into any beautiful garden, and you will find lush greenery, colorful flowers or a pattern of hedges that delights the eye. You might find towering trees, thick vines that seem to dance across an arbor or a fountain that…
Lawn care is even more crucial in the hot summer months.
Small vegetable patches have long flourished in the backyards of Village de l’Est, a predominantly Vietnamese neighborhood in far eastern New Orleans, where many residents grow greens and herbs for their traditional home cooking. More recently, however, these gardens and…
“The Greater Gatsby Affair” for the New Orleans Town Gardeners, Inc.
Make 2013 the year you discovered your green thumb.
Founder, Grow Dat Youth Farm
I was 30 years old before I truly experienced the enthralling scent of a rose. Now I’d experienced hundreds of roses before that time, but it was early one morning, standing in Ruby Browning’s rose garden, that I experienced the…
Go beyond boring terra cotta pots and ugly garden shoes to embrace a nice, clean look while getting your hands dirty.
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