“Beautiful Garden contest winners - Minneapolis Star Tribune” plus 4 more |
- Beautiful Garden contest winners - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Research and Markets: Philippines Sourcing Report - Home & Garden ... - PR Inside
- Natural options for your garden - WAND TV
- Green Thumbs Up: Creating a garden for butterflies and hummingbirds - Belmont Citizen-Herald
- One arrested, one sought in Monday crime spree - Hanford Sentinel
| Beautiful Garden contest winners - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 04 Aug 2009 02:46 PM PDT Beautiful Garden contest winners Thanks to all of you who nominated gardens for this year's Beautiful Gardens contest. We didn't have as many entries as we typically have, but the quality made up for the lack of quantity. Many of the gardens were so spectacular that it was hard for the judges to choose. But choose we did. Here are our winners for 2009: Sarah and Scott Buerkley tend a 2-acre cottage garden in Stillwater that includes a butterfly garden, a raised-bed herb garden, vegetable and cutting gardens as well as a formal garden bordered by a clipped hedge. Singer and actor Jennifer Baldwin Peden has grown flowers since she was a kid. Last year, her husband, Tom Peden, pitched in to add some vegetables to the mix and got bitten by the garden bug. Jim Smith had never planted a garden until he dug up the yard in his Minneapolis home in 2005. With a little help from his friends, he's turned his back yard into an artful mix of perennials, annual, trees, bushes and veggies. Connie Young has been tending -- and extending -- her gardens for more than 20 years. Now, they cover both the front and back yards of her Bloomington home. Mark Campbell's Edina garden is a study in environmentally friendly gardening. He grows organically and composts all his leaves, yard waste and kitchen waste to feed his peonies, daylilies, more than 400 varieties of hostas, and a host of fruit trees and bushes, from apricots and apples to plums, cranberries and seaberries. In their shady Minneapolis yard, Anna and Tom Erbes planted every flower, tree and shrub. They've also built fieldstone garden walls, retaining walls and the cobblestone walkways. Look for their stories in upcoming issues of Home+Garden. Harvest for others If you have more tomatoes, peppers and onions than you know what do to with, don't let them go to waste. Keep picking (to keep the plants productive) and share the bounty. Area food shelves are happy to take fresh garden produce, especially now that they're trying to meet increased demand. Second Harvest Heartland will find a use for whatever you can't use. Yes, even the zucchini.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | |||||
| Research and Markets: Philippines Sourcing Report - Home & Garden ... - PR Inside Posted: 04 Aug 2009 10:57 AM PDT 2009-08-04 19:50:05 -
Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6bf53b/philippines_sourci : The Philippines' long tradition in weaving, woodcarving and clay molding has enabled it to become one of key sourcing centers for indoor furnishings and garden ornaments in Asia. Handicrafts from the country are shipped to all major regions, decorating homes, gardens and patios worldwide.Aside from unique designs and ingenuity in material processing, Philippine-made home and garden decorations attract discerning buyers looking for pieces with handcrafted appeal. Vases, baskets and mirrors with intricate weaving are offered, together with terra-cotta planters and pots that were sculpted by hand. This exclusive report is your guide to the home and garden decor industry of the Philippines. It will help you. - Discover key industry issues, and find out how they can affect your sourcing decisions With profiles of 21 confirmed export manufacturers, a comprehensive industry overview and detailed product and pricing information, this report will help you stay a step ahead of your competition. What you'll get Profile tables of 7 additional suppliers, with key information such as production capacities, export capabilities and key export markets Results of the custom-designed supplier survey, which forecasts industry trends for the next 12 months Verified supplier contact details, including names, e-mails, telephone numbers and websites of profiled makers This report covers the two main types of home and garden manufactured in the Philippines - INDUSTRY OVERVIEW Source: Global Sources Laura WoodSenior Manager press@researchandmarkets.com : mailto:press@researchandmarkets.com Fax from USA: 646-607-1907Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | |||||
| Natural options for your garden - WAND TV Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:41 AM PDT Sorry, readability was unable to parse this page for content.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | |||||
| Green Thumbs Up: Creating a garden for butterflies and hummingbirds - Belmont Citizen-Herald Posted: 04 Aug 2009 01:27 PM PDT As I wandered through my gardens on a steamy August afternoon, I paused to admire a beautiful black swallowtail butterfly floating among the flowers. Moments later, it perched on a clump of bronze fennel in my herb garden, depositing a solitary translucent egg barely the size of a pinhead on the delicate ferny foliage. Closer inspection revealed multiple eggs clinging to the wispy strands in addition to several minute, almost indiscernible caterpillars. In the weeks to come, a few of these tiny chewing machines with orange spots and a white saddle will mature, molting multiple times to produce bright green and black-striped larvae with yellow dots. For some gardeners, the knowledge that a favored plant was about to be devoured by caterpillars would be distressing, but this was a happy discovery for this enthusiastic butterfly gardener, since I cultivate this plant both for its attractive licorice-scented leaves and as caterpillar food. As the summer progresses and temperatures rise, activity increases with many more flowers to entice these special winged visitors. Numerous plants are equally effective for attracting both butterflies and hummingbirds including butterfly bushes, catmint, salvia, lilies, beebalm, phlox, verbena, zinnias, dahlias, lantana and pentas. Purple coneflowers (Echinacea), Liatris and fall-blooming sedums and asters are irresistible magnets for butterflies; Shasta daisies, Stokesia, Heliopsis, butterfly weed (Asclepias), yarrow (Achillea), Scabiosa, daylilies, Coreopsis, Rudbeckia, Gaillardia, Joe-Pye-weed and cosmos tempt numerous species. Fuchsia, million bells and Rose-of Sharon are potent lures for hummers in addition to trumpet vine, geraniums, impatiens, petunias, nasturtiums, cardinal flower (Lobelia), cannas, Penstemons and hosta flowers. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of creating a successful butterfly garden is the provision of larval food sources, for without caterpillars there are no butterflies, and many species only travel a few hundred yards from where they hatch. Native plants, including pussy willow, spicebush, viburnum, poplar, cherry, birch, aster, milkweed, thistle, violets, clover, plantain and Queen Anne's Lace set apart from more formal beds may be the best solution for accommodating chewing larvae.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | |||||
| One arrested, one sought in Monday crime spree - Hanford Sentinel Posted: 04 Aug 2009 12:01 PM PDT
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