“Police log: Spring Garden Twp. home struck with bullets - York Daily Record” plus 4 more |
- Police log: Spring Garden Twp. home struck with bullets - York Daily Record
- Home and garden events in the South Bay and beyond - Contra Costa Times
- Rare, tropical parakeet appears out of the blue in Suffolk garden - Times Online
- Top Picks: Home tour spotlights those on the 'green' edge - Sacramento Bee
- Renee's Roots - Austin American-Statesman
| Police log: Spring Garden Twp. home struck with bullets - York Daily Record Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:19 PM PDT Someone struck a home with several bullets in Spring Garden Township early Friday morning, police said. About 12:50 a.m., a township patrol officer heard gunshots coming from the 600 block of S. Yale Ave., Spring Garden Township Police said. The officer then found a home that had several bullets fired into it, police said. No one was home at the time, and no one was injured, police said. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call township police at 843-0851, or call 911. All information will be considered confidential, police said. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Home and garden events in the South Bay and beyond - Contra Costa Times Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:43 PM PDT PENINSULA Holidays on a High Note. The 12th annual home-entertaining event to benefit Family Service Agency will feature 25 holiday table settings and floral displays, plus a luncheon, floral auction, holiday boutique and "how-to" presentation by floral designer Natasha Lisitsa. Presented by the Foothill Auxiliary to the Family Service Agency of San Mateo County. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 19, Menlo Circus Club, 190 Park Lane, Atherton. Tickets, $95; reservations are a must; call Leigh Ann Bandet, 650-323-5445. Autumn plant sale. Trees, shrubs, perennials, bamboo, grasses, orchids and more. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 17. Foothill College Horticulture Facilities, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. Cash or checks only. Free admission; $2 parking. 650-949-7427, www.foothill.edu. Native plant sale. Scores of species of native plants, seeds and bulbs. Speak to experts about lawn alternatives such as native perennials, wildflowers and grasses. Books, posters and note cards. Hidden Villa Ranch, California Native Plant Society Nursery, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 17. Free admission and parking. 650-941-1068. www.cnps-scv.org. Gardening with your children. You and your child can learn to plant a salad garden to take home. $30, plus $10 materials fee, To register call 650-493-6072 or gardenchildren.eventbrite.com. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oct. 17. Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto. 650-493-6072, www.commongroundinpaloalto.org.Success with native plants. Have you ever lost your native plants soon after planting for what seemed no apparent reason? Too much water or too little? Kevin Bryant, president of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, will teach how to plant and care for natives. 1-2 p.m. Oct. 17. Hidden Villa Ranch, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos. Free. 650-941-1068, www.cnps-scv.org. Rhododendron care. Arborist Barrie Coate will speak about how to combat plant pests and diseases at a meeting of the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society. Free. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Room 12 of Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. 650-948-7483, www.deanza-ars.com. Master Gardeners plant clinic and hot line. Gardeners can visit and consult each Friday with Master Gardeners on ornamental and vegetable garden questions and problems at the MG Plant Clinic, or they can call the MG Hotline. 1-4 p.m. Oct. 23. Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden Center, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Free. 650-329-1356, extension 205, www.mastergardeners.org. SOUTH BAY Field Day at McClellan Ranch. Learn about the 12 varieties of winter squash being raised at McClellan Ranch when the UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County host a Field Day. Garden tours available. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 17. Coming Oct. 24: Audubon Day at the ranch. McClellan Ranch Park, 22221 McClellan Road, Cupertino. Free admission. 408-282-3105, mastergardeners.org/scc.html. Rose Garden Homes Tour. St. Martin of Tours School benefits from this annual tour of homes in the historic Rose Garden area of San Jose. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 17-18. Meet at San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, Dana Street, San Jose, $35 at the door. www.rosegardenhomestour.com. Propagation and seed-saving. Master Gardeners will discuss propagating plants from cuttings and divisions and seed-saving techniques. 1-3 p.m. Oct. 17. Master Gardeners' Demonstration Garden, 433 Charles St., Sunnyvale. Free. 408-282-3105. mastergardeners.org/scc.html. 12 months of color in the native garden. Master Gardener Cayce Hill will discuss how to choose plants that will provide color in your garden year-round. 7-8 p.m. Oct. 21. West Valley Branch Library, 1243 San Tomas Aquino Road, San Jose. Free admission. 408-282-3105, mastergardeners.org/scc.html. Gardening basics. Workshop will cover garden design and maintenance basics, plus making "bay-friendly" choices at the nursery. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 24. Campbell Community Center (E-42), 1 W. Campbell Ave. Free, but preregistration is required; call 408-918-4640 or go to www.reducewaste.org. SANTA CRUZ AREA Backyard chickens. Love Apple Farm will present a class on how to safely and humanely keep a flock of three chickens. Class only, $45. Starter kit, $65. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 17. Love Apple Farm, 9299 Glen Arbor Road, Ben Lomond. 831-588-3801, www.growbetterveggies.com. Create a plant from a cutting. At the next meeting of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society, Mike McCullough will conduct a program on growing rhododendrons from cuttings. Free admission. 10 a.m. Oct. 17. Probuild Garden Center, 235 River St., Santa Cruz. 831-423-0223, www.lumbermens.net/garden/index.html. Organic lawn management. As part of the Cabrillo College Fall Lecture Series on Horticulture, Kevin Doughtery of Jackson Landscape will speak on growing a healthier lawn using all organic materials. 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 831-479-6100, www.cabrillo.edu/academics/horticulture/lectureseries.html. SAN FRANCISCO Victorian house tour. The 37th annual house tour by the San Francisco Victorian Alliance features inside peeks at seven homes (and some gardens) in the Eureka Valley/Castro area that are not normally open to the general public. Tickets, $50, may be purchased at a kiosk near Eureka and 20th streets. 1-5 p.m. Oct. 18. 415-824-2666, www.victorianalliance.org. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Rare, tropical parakeet appears out of the blue in Suffolk garden - Times Online Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:02 PM PDT |
| Top Picks: Home tour spotlights those on the 'green' edge - Sacramento Bee Posted: 10 Oct 2009 12:12 AM PDT Get a glimpse of foothill homes on the "green" edge of technology at today's Home, Garden and Art Tour, presented by the Placerville branch of the American Association of University Women. Open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the tour spotlights houses that have combined style with eco-conscious design, including the use of recycled materials, renewable resources and drought-tolerant landscaping. Among the artistic highlights are an 18-foot fire-breathing "dragon" (created from salvaged tools, garden equipment and motor parts) and a two-story glass blossom "waterfall." Funds raised by the tour go to providing college scholarships. Tickets are $20 each and available at ANOVA Architects, 778 Pacific St. (Highway 49), Placerville.
Violets and rosesLearn how to make African violets thrive with the help of local expert Lyn Lombard. A lifetime member of the African Violet Society of America with more than 500 violets at home, Lombard will present a free workshop at 1 p.m. today at Bushnell Gardens, 5255 Douglas Blvd., Granite Bay. Lombard will discuss watering and planting techniques as well as how to propagate these popular houseplants. Next Saturday, Bushnell Gardens hosts the 47th annual Sierra Foothills Rose Society show. This year's theme is "A Bushel of Roses." Entries will be accepted from 6 to 10 a.m. with the show open free to the public from noon to 5 p.m. You don't need to be a society member or even know much about roses to enter. Novices can submit a favorite home-grown bloom from their gardens in special divisions. There's also a category for the best-smelling rose. (First-time entrants should arrive by 9:30 a.m. for help.) Questions? Call the nursery at (916) 791-4199. PlantapaloozaFind answers to your gardening questions (and lots of great plants) at Plantapalooza from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at El Dorado Nursery, 3931 Durock Road, Shingle Springs. Radio host "Farmer" Fred Hoffman, UC Master Gardeners and representatives from Cornflower Farms, Four Winds Citrus, Monrovia Growers, Dr. Earth, Kelloggs and many more specialty companies will be field flora dilemmas. The best part? It's free. Call (530) 676-6555 for more details. Debbie Arrington This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Renee's Roots - Austin American-Statesman Posted: 16 Oct 2009 08:14 PM PDT Home > Renee's Roots > Archives > 2009 > October > 16 > Entry 'Central Texas Gardener' host selling houseStatesman Homes editor Nicole Villalpando offers this post: "Central Texas Gardener" TV show host and Austin Area Interreligious Ministries CEO Tom Spencer and former partner Victor Martinez, a senior engineer at Freescale, have put their three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in the Central Austin neighborhood of Shoalmont on the market. They bought the 1,547-square-foot house at 4913 Finley Drive nine years ago and transformed the 1/3-acre lot into a garden paradise. The house is listed for $394,500 by Tim Seeliger of Keller Williams Realty. The couple was first attracted to the home's low-slung 1954 design and Arkansas sandstone exterior. "It really spoke to me," Spencer says. But it was the size of the lot that really won them over. Once an overgrown lot, it is now a beautiful outdoor living space, the backyard is a collection of garden rooms — intimate spaces defined by boxwood hedges, stones, a vine-filled trellis, an arbor of soaring bald cypress trees, a pond of fish and water plants. The garden took about six months to design, and 35 truck loads of compost, soil and mulch have created a rich environment for the mostly native plants. The space is a certified wildlife habitat, sometimes filled with hundreds of butterflies. Inside, the home's thick wood paneling has been painted white in the vaulted-ceilinged living room. Bamboo floors add to the room's lightness. The Arkansas sandstone fireplace is original to the house but has been made more grand after being painted black. A built-in planter in the entry has been filled with stones the couple collected from around the world. A breakfast nook looks out onto the backyard stone patio and garden. Stained concrete floors have been made to look like distressed leather in the nook and the kitchen. A tiled-island counter connects the kitchen and the breakfast nook. Martinez, who enjoys cooking, calls it a "great cooking kitchen." Two bedrooms across the hall from each other share a bathroom with its original green tile. A pedestal sink has neighboring counter space. A built-in closet provides plenty of bathroom storage. Each of the bedrooms offers closet space and views of the garden. The couple used one of them as an exercise room, putting the exercise machine in front of the corner window. The master bedroom offers more views of the garden and a connected bathroom with the original tile. Like many houses in the neighborhood, the home has a carport, but a separate shed provides storage for the garden. The couple built a large wood canopy over the patio, which is a mix of granite stones and flat cement squares. An elevated seating area provides views of the long alleys of the garden. A cloth awning covers this space. The garden has only been on "Central Texas Gardener" once, but Spencer has chronicled it on his Web site, soulofthegarden.com. It was also the second-most visited garden on the 2002 tour of the national Garden Conservancy. About 1,000 people visited it on that day. In 2008, the garden was part of a tour by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. About 900 people visited that day, making it the most popular stop on that tour. In 2007, a local Buddhist group held a healing service here in which Khen Rinpoche, the right hand of the Dalai Lama, offered a prayer. The garden is an asset to the house, Seeliger says, and Spencer is offering in the contract to come six times the first year to help the future homeowner get to know the garden and its many bulbs that lay beneath. "It's perfectly manageable," Spencer says. It's something that could by a weekend gardener, he says. There will be an open house Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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By Texas Two Stepper
October 16, 2009 9:09 PM | Link to this
is this a gardening column or a real estate column? surprised to find you publicizing the sale of a home…sure, it's got a great garden, but you are publicizing it because it's for sale…do you get a cut? this topic is not suitable for the gardening column, in my opinion…
By Franny
October 16, 2009 11:05 PM | Link to this
Can you share with us what kind of camera you use for your garden photos?