“Garden profile: Fern Byers - Reading Eagle” plus 4 more |
- Garden profile: Fern Byers - Reading Eagle
- Care for plants during drought - Carroll County Times
- Home and garden news and notes - Raleigh News & Observer
- N.C. residents watch their local gardens flourish - WRAL
- Garden profile: George Ehrgood - Reading Eagle
| Garden profile: Fern Byers - Reading Eagle Posted: 16 Aug 2009 09:20 PM PDT Exeter Township, PA - Reading Eagle Gardens at: her home in Exeter Township. Profession: retired. When did you start gardening? I was raised on a farm. My grandfather sold produce in the summer. We had a big garden. When we moved here, we started gardening. We had small gardens. What is your favorite plant? Roses and daylilies. I think my favorites are Double Delight hybrid teas and the floribundas. You get a lot of flowers with those. I go for the fancy daylilies, the more expensive ones. I trade with my friends so I get all different kinds.
What do you like most about gardening? Working out in the fresh air. I think it's such a wonderful thing. In the fall, everything dies, but in the spring everything comes back to life. What are you most proud of about your garden? Everything. I like my houseplants as well as my outdoor plants. I bring a lot of my plants inside in the winter. I have a room on the second floor to overwinter them. What is your next project in the garden? Just to keep what I have. If it wouldn't be for my neighbors and friends, I wouldn't be able to keep up. Chris Wright helps me. He's been working for me since he was 14. Now he's 37, and he still comes and helps me. What advice can you give to a beginning gardener? Just have patience. Growing things takes a lot of patience. I think patience and love goes together. What has been your biggest challenge? Roses are the biggest challenge because they get black spot and Japanese beetles love them. The rest just need to be watered and fed. Life profiles Berks County gardeners during the garden season. If you would like to recommend someone, write to Garden profile, Life, Reading Eagle Company, P.O. Box 582, Reading, PA 19603. Or e-mail to life@readingeagle.com. Include the person's name, address and telephone number and why you think he or she is a special gardener.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Care for plants during drought - Carroll County Times Posted: 16 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT In Carroll and surrounding counties, the land is parched. If you're a gardener you can probably tell by looking at your own garden which plants are suffering the most. Individual plants respond to drought in various ways. Plants may slow or restrict their growth, wilt or curl up in response to lack of water. Most newly established plants and trees need about an inch or so of water per week; however, those that are established can get by with somewhat less. Some plants, such as grass, become dormant after prolonged periods without water. It's nature's way of protecting the grass. The good news is that grass does grow back, so there's no need to water your lawn during a drought.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Home and garden news and notes - Raleigh News & Observer Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT "Dorm Decor" is published by Chronicle Books and sells for $19.95. WHAT'S NEW: SHOWER CURTAIN MADE FOR YOU Who says pictures have to hang on walls? Now they can hang on shower curtain rods. The Internet company PhotoShowerCurtain.com can turn your favorite photo into a custom shower curtain made of polyester poplin. The effect is of a mural in the bathroom. The fabric curtains can be washed without fading or shrinking, the company says. Images must be provided in digital form. Prices are $149 for a 35-by-72-inch stall curtain and $199 for a 70-by-72-inch tub curtain, including shipping. Text can be added for $10. Information is at http://www.photoshowercurtain.com or 888-DOMYBATH (888-366-9228). Q&A: FRAGRANT TREES ARE 'IVORY SILK' Q: There are some new and beautiful trees along Ohio state Route 8. The trees have white flowers, and there are a lot around the Stonehedge-Cuyahoga Falls Avenue entrance area. We're interested in knowing what they are. -Ralph and Becky Reinke, Munroe Falls, Ohio A: I get inquiries about those trees periodically from people who see them in various places around Akron. They're Ivory Silk Japanese tree lilacs, Syringa reticulata "Ivory Silk." Akron City Arborist Bill Hahn said the city has been planting them for about 30 years. Besides being beautiful and fragrant, they're salt-tolerant, long-lived and compact, so they're good for planting under overhead wires. They bloom in May and June. (Have a question about home maintenance, decorating or gardening? Call Akron Beacon Journal home writer Mary Beth Breckenridge at 330-996-3756, or send e-mail to mbrecken@thebeaconjournal.com.)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| N.C. residents watch their local gardens flourish - WRAL Posted: 16 Aug 2009 01:34 PM PDT TARBORO, N.C. — Amid the dog days of summer, the community garden on Saint David Street and East Tarboro residents' gardens continue to flourish. Jordan and Marjorie Shaw have collard greens, salad greens and several different types of flowers, bushes and trees, like a Japanese maple, growing at their 1000 block Saint John Street residence. The Daily Southerner of Tarboro reported that Ardena and James Mitchell have their Habitat For Humanity-built home on the 600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive painted in red, their backyard patio area and tool shed decked in red, and the rest of their space spruced up in multi-colored foliage. The Saint David Street community garden, a joint effort between The Quigless Natural Health Center of Tarboro and the Edgecombe County Health Department, has had an excellent first year, said garden master Allen Hansome. So far, the string beans, watermelons, squash, tomatoes and other people's vegetables and fruits have been growing very well through the summer, which hasn't been as dry as the past two. The tomatoes in particular "have been growing like crazy" on Saint David Street, Hansome said. The garden master is looking ahead to the fall, as some of the pumpkin sprouts have started coming out of the ground. Hansome said he keeps a watchful eye on The Weather Channel and plants the community garden fruits and vegetables before a rain event. Like the tomatoes at the Community Garden, Jordan Shaw, 70, said his tomatoes have grown exceptionally well this summer. His collard greens are still close to two feet wide, but he pointed to his waste to show how much taller and wider they were back in June. Shaw added that, in order to get his garden to grow so well, he has only depended on rainfall to give the ground a "good soaking" for his plants. "There's no telling what my water bill would be" if he relied on tap water to give his garden its fill, he added. A Mayo Knitting Mill worker who originally retired eight years ago, Shaw said he started planting his garden back in 2004. When he first retired in 2002, "I stayed home two years and got bored." Now, "when I come back home," he said, "I'm working in the yard or in the garden." Out of her tiger lilies, tulips, red maples and her century-old cedar trees, Marjorie Shaw said it's her Japanese maple she planted along one of the driveways that's "my baby." It's a slow-growing plant that she gives a lot of attention, she said, as it has a wispy, airy beauty, like a rusty, gold-colored willow tree once it fills out. And with her arrangement of rooster tails and other colorful plants in her front yard, Mitchell said she's had people come by and take pictures of her house over the summer. "Some people (are) talking about me, 'Girl, you a landscaper.' I ain't a landscaper" is her response to the appreciated compliments, Mitchell added. Mitchell said she completed her backyard patio area last summer, along with the painting job on her tool shed. "It didn't take me long" to complete the two projects at the house she's lived in the past nine years, she said. Mitchell and her husband moved into their Habitat home back in 2000, after Hurricane Floyd displaced them from their original Church Street home 10 years ago next month. Along with beautifying their homes and their neighborhoods, both women said tending their gardens is a good stress reliever. "If I can just get outside, I can unwind," Marjorie Shaw said, who also cuts hair on the side. "I feel like I can just fly away." Marjorie and Ardena said they both came to tend their gardens because of their mothers. "I just took a habit" for tending flowers after hers, Mitchell said. Before they even have their place lit up for Christmas, Shaw said he's had to turn away people "from out of state" who have come by wanting to chat with him and his wife about their garden. "Everybody asks, 'When you got the time to do it?' I love it," is his response. And, Shaw added, he feels that his activity has been keeping him healthy and energetic into his 70s. "You keep (your body) moving, and you'll keep it going. If you stop, you get nothing." --- Information from: The Daily Southerner |
| Garden profile: George Ehrgood - Reading Eagle Posted: 09 Aug 2009 09:06 PM PDT Bern Township, PA - Gardens at: his home in Bern Township. Profession: retired from Dana Corp. When did you start gardening? It's been an off-and-on thing. When I was younger, my grandmother had a pretty decent-sized flower bed and gardens. That caught my eye. When I got a little older and was living in the city, I had some flowers, but mostly vegetables. Then I moved to Hamburg and had really decent vegetable and flower beds, but when you're working, you're not really able to get into. Since I retired, I've been gradually building beds. I prefer seeing flowers and trees rather than grass. What is your favorite plant? Combinations of coneflowers with their purple coloring and shasta daisies and rudbeckia. Anything in the daisy family. I like how they propogate themselves. You can start with a few and end up with a lot.
What do you like most about gardening? You get the satisfaction of working with the earth where you came from, and where you'll return to. It's peaceful. You have the satisfaction of looking back and seeing what you did. What are you most proud of about your garden? Seeing the work I've done come back each year, especially the perennials. Just seeing the beauty of it, and how it attracts the various songbirds and butterflies. I'd rather look at that than grass. What is your next project in the garden? I have enough right now just keeping up with the weeding. That's an ongoing battle. What advice can you give to a beginning gardener? Gardening is trial and error. Some plants prefer certain areas and some don't. You shouldn't be discouraged right away. What has been your biggest challenge? Weed control. It's an ongoing battle. This year seems to be worse than any other year. And sometimes you make the mistake to put in a plant that's a pest. Life profiles Berks County gardeners during the garden season. If you would like to recommend someone, write to Garden profile, Life, Reading Eagle Company, P.O. Box 582, Reading, PA 19603. Or e-mail to life@readingeagle.com. Include the person's name, address and telephone number and why you think he or she is a special gardener. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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