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Pick a pepper in your garden this summer
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View full sizeILLUSTRATION BY KENNETH HARRISON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEWhile mid-March is a great time to begin planting many warm-season vegetables, such as tomatoes, snap beans, squash, sweet corn and cucumbers, a backyard Louisiana garden just wouldn't be

Homestead Gardens' Spring Flower Show
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Flower show season continues this weekend at Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville, beginning with a preview night Friday night from 6 to 8 p.m. "Kaleidoscope of Color" is the title of the show, and color, lots of color, will take center stage. Workshops

Got a home and garden tour?
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It's that time of year again when we publish our lengthy home and garden tour guide for spring. If you would like your home or garden tour to be included in our package, act fast. The deadline to submit your information is March 27. Due to the volume...

Exotic wallpaper from Arthouse
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Looking for chic style on a budget? Then this striking, shimmering wallpaper is just the ticket Not only will this stunning chocolate and turquoise wallpaper from Arthouse bring some drama and sophistication to your living space, its shimmering metallic

Helping Wounded Soldiers
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OK, so typically I post my favorite products, places to eat and shop, and design ideas here, but yesterday I got an email from Governor O’Malley and had to pass this great program along. Apparently, when many of our soldiers fighting abroad are

How to Choose Versatile Furnishings for Your Home
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If you're starting out in a new home or thinking about making a purchase for your dream home where you'll stay for the rest of your life, it's very practical to select furniture and furnishings that you could use in any room in your home. For example, it

How to stake plants beautifully
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The late Christopher Lloyd treated the staking of plants as "an art, not a chore", something to be done, elegantly, unobtrusively and efficiently. So before you place more bamboo canes in your beds, think about fine-tuning your technique to create a

Prune, but don't commit 'crape murder'
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Jimmy Turner, director of research at the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Society, is on a mission to stop mass murder. It kills him to see crape myrtles hacked, chopped and topped around North Texas. Stop this: Don't top crape myrtles to control their

Alan Titchmarsh: How To Garden series, climbers and wall shrubs
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FROM fabulous fruit and flowers to heady fragrances, climbers and wall shrubs have all you need to give your patch impact, says Alan Titchmarsh, in our first exclusive extract from his How To Garden series... Verticals and horizontals Softening hard

Want to grow an herb garden in your refrigerator?
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Long Island between E 34th - Old Country (westbound): Building volume, between Searingtown Rd. and Jericho Turnpike (Route 25). 3/10/10 Traffic eased Sagtikos State Pkwy. (southbound): Traffic eased, between Exit S3 (Pine Aire Drive) and Exit S1 (Long

Garden Planted And Almost Growing
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Central Florida gardeners can not put off planting the warm season garden much longer. Even though it is a bit cool still we all know the warm to hot weather is just around the corner. Tomatoes need some time to grow plants and then set their crop in the

California dreaming
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Adam Lau / Special to The Chronicle Jennifer Jones, owner of Candystore Collective, uses a neutral palette and cozies up the Eichler with '70s chairs from Craigslist for a laid-back vibe. (6) You never know what you'll come across on Craigslist. Jennifer

The March checklist
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Clean closets Spring officially begins March 21, a Sunday this year. So that you're free to celebrate that day in the most appropriate place (outdoors), devote a cold, rainy day earlier in the month to one of the spring-cleaning rituals that still makes

Make a house a home: Adopt a rescue pet
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Rosemary and John Yun were looking to adopt. For months, the Ellicott City couple waited. They filled out applications asking about their neighborhood, their jobs and their daily routines; prepped their home before an agency checked in on them; asked

Garden Tools - Using a Soil Thermometer For Seeds
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One of several garden tools that every gardener should have in their possession is a soil thermometer. These thermometers measure the temperature of the soil by sticking a probe into the soil. They are used to help determine if it is time to plant seeds

Fungi and lichen garden wins flower show's supreme award
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The supreme award-winning Life and Death garden. Photo / Ben Campbell Photography Shrink The supreme award-winning Life and Death garden. Photo / Ben Campbell Photography The Christchurch Botanic Gardens' Life and Death garden exhibit has won the supreme

Kirstie Allsopp voted Property Mum of the Year 2010
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Kirstie Allsoppis the nation's favourite property celebrity mum, according to a new poll. Findaproperty.co.uklaunched a hunt for the best mum earlier this month, and the Relocation, Relocation presenter walked away with 50% of the votes. ‘Kirstie

The curse of Japanese knotweed
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Meddling with nature is always controversial. In the early 18th century, when the London nurseryman Thomas Fairchild produced the first known hybrid between two flowers (a carnation and a sweet william), he was denounced for interfering with God's great

Buy of the day
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Poppy print purse, £20, from Liberty Parisian concept store Merci have teamed up with our very own Liberty for a collection of limited edition pieces. The gorgeous mini case has already been snapped up (I'm sobbing into my Liberty hanky) but you can

Gardens of Williamsburg plant collections debut on QVC shopping channel March 10
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Plants that have stood the test of time in Colonial Williamsburg can now grow in your own garden. Williamsburg debuts seven collections of live plants — called the Gardens of Williamsburg — at 1 p.m. Wednesday on the QVC shopping channel. It will be

Which common garden plants are poisonous to dogs?
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Did you ever see the film Mary Poppins? There's a scene where Mary Poppins, the nanny, shows her young charges that cleaning up toys can be like a game. You can do the same thing with your dog, so long as your pet knows basic fetch and return skills. It