Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

Sprouting Seeds for Speedy Summer Plants

April 20, 2009

This spring I’ve decided to try something new with the seeds I’m sowing in my garden. Typically, I’ll wait until after May 8 (last average frost day in Boise) to direct seed those warm-season plants like heirloom beans, winter squash and cucumbers right into the soil. But this year I’m attempting to get a head […]

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Poisonous Plants for Pets

April 16, 2009

Meet Maggie O’Connor, the newest addition to our family. She’s a sweet-tempered, lovable hound mix that we adopted from the Idaho Humane Society a few months ago. Isn’t she a beauty? Keeping her safe is our top priority. That’s why we knew it was important to familiarize ourselves with plants that could make pets like Maggie […]

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Earth Day 2009

April 16, 2009

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” The Lorax (1971), Dr. Seuss Earth Day is one of the best ways to speak out and show your support for the trees, the flowers, the mountains, the beaches and all the rest of nature.  And speak out, people do. In 1970, an amazing […]

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Strange Easter Facts

April 12, 2009
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Since the earliest times, spring and the renewal of life after winter have been celebrated around Easter. Most people know Easter as a Christian holiday that marks the resurrection of Jesus. But here are Easter facts you might not know:

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iPhone Garden Photo Tip

April 8, 2009

You know how it is. The perfect garden photo is right in front of you. But you’ve forgotten your camera — and all you have is your cell phone. Don’t despair. This photo was taken by Kurt Triffet of Triffet Design Group using an iPhone and a 3-lens pocketsized magnifying glass bought at RadioShack. Kurt […]

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Great Victory Garden Resource

April 8, 2009

So, now that you’ve learned a bit about the Victory Gardens in WWI/WWII — not to mention how one artist interprets The Victory Garden of Tomorrow — are you hooked yet? Want to learn more about Victory Gardens? No problem. Just get yourself over to Red, White and Grew. It’s a wonderful clearinghouse of resources, […]

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A Historian Looks Back at Victory Gardens

April 5, 2009

Imagine a world where millions of healthy kitchen gardens are created throughout the nation, for the rich and the poor, because the government makes it the patriotic thing to do. Is this idea some wild and strange utopian concept? Nope. It’s happened before in the United States. In fact, the seeds of this initiative sprouted […]

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The Victory Garden of Tomorrow

April 5, 2009

Call these art posters the answer to old-fashioned Victory Garden propaganda for the 21st century. At The Victory Garden of Tomorrow, Portland, Oregon-based artist Joe Wirtheim mixes vintage-style themes with contemporary concerns about organic foods, recycling, composting and more. Fun art that promotes a good cause. What could be better? Check ’em out!

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April in Paris

April 2, 2009

“The last time I saw ParisHer heart was warm and gay,I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.” Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) The year was 2004. As my friend Marian Dunshee wandered the streets of Paris one April afternoon, she happened upon Au Nom de la Rose, a lovely little florist and […]

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Are You Fooling? It’s April!

April 1, 2009

“Hail April, the Medea of the year, That makest all things young and fresh appear.” R. Chambers, The Book of Days, 1866 It’s the first day of April. Each day, spring grows stronger in its fight against winter. And our gardens start to look especially lovely after months of gray, dreary days. The colorful bulb […]

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