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Garden book review: ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables’ Updated 12:37 PM; Facebook Share By Sally Peterson “The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables” by Lorene Edwards Forkner ($19.95, Timber Press): This is a comprehensive guide to gardening that goes well beyond being appropriate for just beginners. As someone who has enjoyed growing plants for more than 30 years, I found it a refreshing overview with an emphasis on nurturing vegetables and herbs in the gr...

‘Six times I have lamented my choice’: even top gardeners get it wrong We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Robin Powell Save Normal text size Advertisement Over the past 20 years plant collector, nurseryman, gardener and writer Dan Hinkley has created his masterpiece garden, Windcliff, on the edge of Washington State’s Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. He writes, disarmingly, in his new garden memoir Windcliff (Timber P...

What difference can one homeowner make to help animals who greatly need some assistance?  Quite a lot, it turns out. Yards can become a collective force for good. Critter cancel culture can be halted just outside your backdoor. “Especially in urban areas, small yards add up to large areas of land that can support animals, like birds and pollinators, or those yards can add up to areas in which it is really tough for animals to survive,” said Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg, biologist and scien...

How to create a cottagecore garden  – follow these five easy steps A recent report by the Royal Horticultural Society revealed cottagecore garden, the trend that boosts biodiversity, will boom this summer 6 April 2021 • 11:08am The interiors trend is set to rocket this summer   – bringing colour, comfort planting and beauty to gardens across the UK  Credit: Alamy  I still remember my first encounter with a cottage garden. After a four-hour car  journey from Reading to Mousehole, Cor...

$7.00 per person Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain  us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Join Pickering Creek as Dr. Doug Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and m...

It’s never a bad time to refresh your reading list, and it’s always a good idea to sprinkle in some homegrown favorites. Here are some of the best recent books by Oregon authors (we used five years as our cut off) to decorate your bookshelves and blow your minds. From dark dystopias to autobiographical essays to Parisian comedies to woolly mammoths, these local authors have taken on disparate themes and raised their individual, original voices to tell urgent, entertaining ...

Stir-crazy antidotes, Joe’s seedy advice, and what’s ailing the houseplants: This Month in the Garden Updated Feb 05, 2021; Facebook Share Cabin-fever lifters After nearly a full year of laying low to fend off COVID-19 infection, so-called “cabin fever” probably seems worse than ever this winter. Gardeners might not be able to wash it away as easily as during peak gardening season, but there are some garden-y activities that can be done now to keep from going completely stir crazy. The...

Pampas grass became an instant home decor hit in lockdown Credit: Getty Images Pampas grass ( Cortaderia selloana) is enjoying another moment in the sun thanks to a rise in modern interior trends, including Japandi, minimalism, and dried flower arrangements.   The South American native, popular for its silver-beige feathery plumes, was once ubiquitous in front gardens of the 1970s, but drastically fell out of favour, along with flared jeans and chain smoking.  There was also an urban ...

Mike S: Today’s pics are a few of the South African flower bulbs I’ve grown and been lucky enough to have bloom (mostly in our cool/cold greenhouse) over the last 20 years. These aren’t huge flowers; today’s are mostly about 2 or 3 inches across when fully open (5-8 cm) but are impressive in their fine patterns of pollinator guidelines. I haven’t yet visited South Africa (or anywhere in Africa), but I still have it on my bucket list! As a birder and wildlife watcher it is one of the t...

Author: Darien Library, Barrett Bookstore welcoming Staff FacebookTwitterEmail The Darien Library, and the Barrett Bookstore are welcoming Author Marta McDowell for an event via the Zoom application on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. McDowell is the author of the book titled: “Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life.” McDowell will explore Gardener Dickinson’s gardens through excerpts of her letters, and poems, and historic, and modern images of her garden. The book is McDowell’s latest one. I...