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Container Gardens Get Spring Started Indoors
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ON a recent Saturday, over a cup of tea, I redefined the farm-to-table food movement. It didn't take much. All I did was move my herb garden -- that is, the farm -- to my dining room table. Potting mix, dirt, seedlings, water. Everything. Without

Seeing Green: Match Green Paint or Not
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While everyone knows that it's really hard to match shades of blue, green is considered by interior designers as the hardest color to capture for wall and furniture paint. For some reason, it's almost impossible to get a green paint to coordinate well

Cut and collect chopping board from lazyboneuk.com
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This ingenious design makes chopping super efficient! As I've admitted before, I'm not much of a cook. Recently I have, however, progressed from dubious beginnings (which saw me banned completely from the kitchen while the Master - my boyfriend - was at

Hummingbird wallpaper from Wallpaper Direct | Wallpaper
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Get in the mood for spring with this fun wallpaper idea Looking for bedroom design ideas? This hummingbird wallpaper from Wallpaper Direct is perfect for spring. We love the exotic colours and cute birds darting between gold and lime foilage. Use it in a

Home and garden book club
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Spring is springing and that means our desks are piling high with home and garden books from publishers all over the U.S. We'd like to give these books away to home and garden enthusiasts because what we like as much as interior décor and gardening...

Chelsea Flower Show 2010: a perennial charmer
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The other day, Alan Titchmarsh was planting lilacs in his Hampshire garden. As he rewarded them with a generous mulch of chipped bark he lifted his nose, like the Bisto kid, in an ecstasy of remembering. "Aaaah" he breathed deep. "Chelsea!" Once, it

George Orwell book sold for 128,000 dollars
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Category : Homes (General) News Alerts by Email ( click here ) Homes General News | Home London - The first edition of a George Orwell book signed by the author has fetched 86,000 pounds (128,000 dollars) at an auction. The 1930s edition of the

Catch the sun in your garden
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Watch how the sun moves around your garden and choose a place for morning coffee, perhaps - or as the clocks go forward next weekend, one for watching the sunset over a glass of wine after work. Here, a neatly hedged bay beside the gravel path provides

How to prune winter jasmine and viticella clematis
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In late March it's a little too early to cut back penstemons and other slightly tender plants, but it is an ideal time to trim back winter jasmine to encourage fresh growth for next year's flowers, and reduce summer-flowering viticella clematis back to

How to set up an allotment site
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1 First approach your parish council or, if you live in an area without a parish council, your town or district council. They are obliged to consider requests to find a site - although they are not legally obliged to produce one. 2 Think about clubbing

Stellar stellata
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Well, there they are outside my bedroom french windows, where I can watch them propped up a pillow. We had thought we'd lost them last year when a neighbour forgot to water the pot when we were away for a hot summer break (and I might not have been very

Choose the Right Decorating Fabric for the Job
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With so many types of decorating fabrics available, how do you choose? Learn about different fabrics and their best uses. Cotton holds patterns well, comes in many finishes, and make up nicely for draperies, furniture covers, and accessories like pillows

Spring gardening
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The soil is warming up, so now is a good time to move evergreen shrubs. However, the larger and older the shrub, the higher the risk of poor re-establishment. Remember to water during dry weather. Finish off pruning of dogwoods (Cornus) and willows

Pruning hydrangeas
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The risk of hard frost has diminished in the garden so it should now be safe to prune hydrangeas. On established mopheads and lacecaps (Hydrangea macrophylla) remove one or two of the oldest stems close to the base of the plants to encourage the

Hardy palms for Palm Sunday
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You don't have to live on Tresco to grow outdoor palms. They can make statuesque specimens in warm sheltered gardens or form part of lush tropical-themed plantings. Give the garden an exotic look by planting Jubaea chilensis (coquito palm) or

White House spring garden tours set to begin
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The White House will open its gardens to the public again in April, and this time the first lady's vegetable garden is on the tour. On April 17th and 18th, members of the public with tickets will be able to visit the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the Rose

Zen gardens build a sense of calm
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It may seem curious that viewing a sparse landscape of rock and gravel can be an antidote to the day's chaos. But a Zen garden, a minimalist composition of carefully placed stones, is calming - if you put your mind to it. Zen gardens are dry landscapes

Sharp Debuts Aquos Quattron TV Line
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While Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony, and LG, seemed to be pre-occupied with their upcoming 3D products, Sharp decided to listen to a different drummer. Sharp emphasizing its new line of Quattron LCD Televisions which utilize Quad Pixel Technology. You may

A spring sweep
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Poll: Your least favorite chore
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Just how did spring cleaning become an annual guilt trip? A 2000 Smithsonian exhibit on the history of housecleaning included this diary entry from a housewife in 1864: 'Swept and dusted sitting-room & kitchen 350 times. Filled lamps 362 times. Swept and

Books on housekeeping
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Check out the practical advice in these four engaging books on housekeeping. 'Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House' by Cheryl Mendelson (Scribner, $19.95 in paperback). This scholarly tome originally published in 1999 has been labeled the

White House Spring Garden Tours
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The White House will open its gardens to the public again in April, and this time the first lady's vegetable garden is on the tour. On April 17th and 18th, members of the public with tickets will be able to visit the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the Rose

Wet or scruffy lawns
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Important lawn care things to do after the cold and miserable weather. • Many lawns are in a poor state after the cold, wet winter. Snow-melt water and heavy rain over already saturated ground has meant some lawns are not draining properly. Take

Common sense in the garden
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Recent stories about catching Legionnaires' disease from compost are, thankfully, very rare. However, gardeners can all take sensible precautions to stay safe when working in the beds, borders and greenhouse. For example, wear gloves whenever handling

How to keep your garden as pest-free as possible
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Moles Since strychnine was banned, their numbers have exploded and the hundreds of professional mole-catchers in business indicates their elusiveness. I quizzed my local mole catcher, Andrew, for tips. He uses Talpex traps (a type of claw trap, 8;

Sowing veg outside
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Late March is often the first opportunity to sow a range of vegetable seeds directly into the ground; carrots, spinach, lettuce, rocket Most vegetables can be sown straight into their growing positions, to be thinned out as soon as possible. Leeks,

Instant bathroom storage
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Make the most of the space in your bathroom Liven up the back of your bathroom door with these birdie hooks from Umbra (£27.50). Not only do they instantly make your bathroom look up to date (bird motifs are big news on the high street) there's lots of

Best buys for beekeepers
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First, learn the ropes. Bees are living creatures and their care demands expertise and time. Join your local beekeeping association. Most groups run courses for beginners over the winter, usually followed up with a mentoring scheme of some sort where