“Garden profile: Mary Ann Getz - Reading Eagle” plus 4 more |
- Garden profile: Mary Ann Getz - Reading Eagle
- Garden profile: Judy Shea - Reading Eagle
- St. Rose hosts - Recorder Community Newspapers
- Garden City Defense Is Excellent! - Newsday
- Summit puts focus on climate legislation - Lansing State Journal
| Garden profile: Mary Ann Getz - Reading Eagle Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT Cumru Township, PA - Reading Eagle Gardens at: her home in Cumru Township. Profession: retired. When did you start gardening? I would say about 20 years ago. I started because of a love of flowers. It was just an evolving thing. I love to design and decorate, and you can do that with flowers. My first garden was in Amity Gardens, then my home in the village of Maytown, Lancaster County, had pure cottage gardens. That's where I really could see the fruits of my labor. It was a lot of work, but it was beautiful.
What is your favorite plant? I would have to say the black-eyed Susan and the coneflowers, and there's a new purple phlox "Purple Kiss" that's fast becoming my favorite. It's beautiful. I like the-old fashioned plants. What do you like most about gardening? It's stress relief. What are you most proud of about your garden? That we did this in one year. When we came here, there was nothing but grass. Now we have flowers. What is your next project in the garden? If we stay here, there's a long fence we put up as a backdrop to another garden that I'll be planting. What advice can you give to a beginning gardener? Don't be afraid to try something. We've pulled things out and started a beautiful little garden in another area with those plants. If they die, it's OK, they can be replaced. And when I deadhead, it goes right back into the soil. What has been your biggest challenge? Laying it out, because of the layout of the yard. We planted a tree first and went from there. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Garden profile: Judy Shea - Reading Eagle Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT Oley Township, PA - Reading Eagle Gardens at: her home in Oley Township. Profession: retired professor at Kutztown University. When did you start gardening? About 35 years ago. I did vegetable gardening, and more of the aesthetic stuff has been since I retired and had more time.
What is your favorite plant? I really like very simple things like mosses and ferns. I'd love to learn more about the culture of plants because I find them intriguing. What do you like most about gardening? The sense of accomplishment that I get from it. It's a nurturing kind of thing in that you get a little plant and you coax it along. It gives you a real sense of accomplishment. What are you most proud of about your garden? The area that I have under the maple tree. That's mostly shade plants and a few cement finials to set them off. It's very restful to look at. What is your next project in the garden? I'd like to put up some decorative fencing around the vegetable garden to improve the aesthetics. In other words, I want to hide it. What advice can you give to a beginning gardener? Take advantage of some of the publications and TV shows that are out there. You can learn an awful lot about gardening from a little book you pick up at the grocery store and from the TV shows. What has been your biggest challenge? Finding help, people to dig out flower beds. Besides that, I have a devil of a time with zucchinis and pests. They just start to look great and then they collapse. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| St. Rose hosts - Recorder Community Newspapers Posted: 11 Oct 2009 03:13 PM PDT |
| Garden City Defense Is Excellent! - Newsday Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:12 PM PDT Tracking the unbeatens: Nassau's dozenThere were 28 undefeated teams in Nassau County after Week 1. You could have taken that bet to Vegas; Fifty-five teams, one bye, no ties, 28 was a guarantee. After the first week those numbers thin out. Fifteen of those 1-0 teams (and the one 0-0 team) fell on Thursday, leaving the undefeated numbers at a dozen, nicely divided at three in each conference. Last season only Seaford survived the regular season without a loss. With so much parity on Long Island this year, there's a good chance we'll once again see one or two undefeated teams, and maybe even none at all. Each week we'll take a look at the upcoming schedules for Nassau's unbeaten teams until the season's over, or there's no one left unblemished. This week only one undefeated team is guaranteed to fall. Elmont hosts Garden City and one team has to lose. How many unbeatens will remain next week? Here are each team's chances on a scale of 1-10.
Conference I:
Hicksville
Massapequa
Conference II:
Wantagh
Conference III:
Plainedge
Sewanhaka
Conference IV:
Carle Place/Wheatley
Roosevelt: I'll leave with a question for the comments section. Which of these 12 is most likely to go undefeated? Will there be more than one? Be sure, to check back tomorrow for Suffolk's undefeated watch. Tags: Carle Place, Roosevelt, Seaford, Lynbrook, Plainedge, Sewanhaka, Garden City, Wantagh, Elmont, Freeport, Hicksville, Massapequa, Conference I, Conference II, Conference III, Conference IV. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Summit puts focus on climate legislation - Lansing State Journal Posted: 11 Oct 2009 07:59 PM PDT With a saw in hand, Justin Schott was busy building a raised bed for an urban garden Saturday morning in downtown Lansing. The 29-year-old Ann Arbor man was one of about 35 volunteers gathered behind an art studio and performance venue known as Basement 414 on Michigan Avenue. Their goal: Make the city a bit greener. Hundreds of college students and environmental activists set out to do community service throughout Lansing on Saturday as part of a weekend summit. The Michigan Powershift Summit took place at the Lansing Center and was expected to draw a crowd of more than 1,000. Participants did community service projects and learned about sustainability. "Powershift is a campaign - a youth campaign - on pushing for bold ... climate legislation this year," said Juliana Goodlaw-Morris, Midwest campus field coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation. The event was one of 11 to take place across the country through November and the first ever to be held in Lansing. Goodlaw-Morris said a similar, national summit was held in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. "Instead of having another national conference they thought it would be a good idea to have regional or state conferences," she said. Ruthie Smith, a Michigan State University horticulture and landscape design senior, facilitated the urban garden project. "It's been fantastic. ... They have all really jumped in head first. They're getting dirty and they're problemsolving," she said. Jessica Singer, 18, listened to a presentation about clean energy inside of the center. The University of Michigan freshman was one of many participants who came from out of town. "I've always been interested in the environment," she said. "I picked the University of Michigan because they have a strong program in (environmental science)." Singer said while the summit is a start, young people need to do more to make a difference. "There's not enough - I think there's a good turnout here, but it's only the beginning," she said. After Schott put the finishing touches on his raised garden bed, other volunteers filled it with soil. Others built compost bins. "I've built some raised beds in my own garden at my home in Ann Arbor," said Schott, who is the program director of Detroit Youth Energy Squad. "I think this is great that we're doing work on the ground in the community," he said. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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