Results for keyword: gardening
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How to Play Safely in the Soil
High Country News offers tips on how to garden safely if your home is built on at-risk former farmland.
by Rebecca Clarren, Dec 05, 2010 -
My love affair with dandelions
Jeannie Pomeroy’s lifelong love affair with dandelions blooms anew with every spring.
by Jeannie Pomeroy, May 26, 2008 -
How to adopt a garden
This year, Ari LeVaux is breaking with his own tradition and planting his vegetable garden from starts rather than seeds.
by Ari LeVaux, Apr 21, 2008 -
Native Intelligence
Lili Singer is in love with California’s native plants and wants to share that love with other people.
by Erika Schickel, Mar 31, 2008 -
Down the alleys and through the collectibles
Bill Croke enjoys a rite of spring peculiar to small towns: Strolling the neighborhood alleys and snooping to see what everyone’s up to.
by Bill Croke, Mar 19, 2007 -
What is Xeriscaping?
The seven basic principles of Xeriscaping are explained
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 21, 2006 -
A green obsession
Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go
by Paul Larmer, Aug 21, 2006 -
The Lure of the Lawn
It’s not easy to wean Westerners away from their lush, traditional, turfgrass lawns, but with drought an increasing fact of life, Xeriscape gardening is finally catching on
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 21, 2006 -
Saving water from the sky
In Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Tucson author Brad Lancaster gives a hands-on inspirational guide for how to harvest the desert Southwest’s rare moisture
by Marge Pellegrino, May 29, 2006 -
The native gardens of California
Ethnobotanist Kat Anderson’s new book, Tending the Wild, examines the way California’s native peoples used – and shaped – the landscape’s natural resources before Europeans invasion
by Mark R. Stromberg, Nov 14, 2005






