| 'I gazed out at the mists that have blighted my gardening plans'
CHANGE the time, change the weather, I mused, pausing to recall one of many fine old country sayings now occupying valuable brain cells that could be put to better use. Not that old surely, I mused a little further, keeping the carpet-shampooing machine switch in the "Off" position while gazing out at the mists that have blighted gardening plans this week since the spring forwarding of clocks. .
Front Yard Landscaping Important Choice This Spring Says Yardcrew.com
Spring is here and Yardcrew.com, a top online yard care and yard services resource, has the tools homeowners need to find the right landscaping service in anticipation of warmer weather. Knowing how to choose a good landscaper is just as important as knowing when to landscape. With issues such as proper watering, pesticides and tree trimming to deal with, many homeowners would rather hire a landscape contractor to take care of their yards. Yardcrew.com connects visitors with licensed, quality landscape contractors in their area. (PRWEB) April 6, 2007 -- With spring comes warm weather and Yardcrew.com, the essential home services connecting landscaping consumers and contractors, offers homeowners a resource to find landscaping services. Many homeowners have trouble finding qualified, licensed landscaping contractors and often don't know how important it is to ask the right questions when selecting a landscaper -- or even the differences between commercial and residential landscapers.
Top 10 landscaping mistakes
Whether you're a do-it-yourself-er or a professional, you're not immune to making the "Top 10 Mistakes in Landscaping," Janet Carson told a full house at the Arkansas County Home and Garden Show Friday night. Carson, horticulture specialist with the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, is one of the state's best-known gardening experts. She went through the list starting with No. 10, "volcano mulching." Mulching serves a number of worthwhile purposes, Carson said, but piling on too much just provides a "B & B for rodents." It's also important to "keep an air pocket around the plants," Carson said. No. 9 is not removing all wires, tags and strings from a plant. If a plant is balled in burlap, all of it does not have to be removed, but "you do have to cut it," Carson said.
Riverbanks plant sale features "Coffee Cups" elephant ears ...
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - You can take a bit of Riverbanks' Botanical Garden home with you this Saturday. Their annual plant sale features more than 50 species. The sale will run from 9am to 2pm in the Garden's Growing Center located at the end of Seminole Drive in West Columbia. "We select plants that currently grow in the Botanical Garden and that perform well with our climate," said Andy Cabe, curator of horticulture. "Each year we strive to provide newer, more uncommon plants that might be hard to find at local retailers. The purpose of the sale is to promote and circulate these extraordinary plants to the gardening public." Plants for sale will include annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, bulbs and old roses. Also available will be a couple of varieties of Brugmansia, also known as angel's trumpets.
Activists: Children At Risk From Pesticides
A lawn or playing field treated with chemical pesticides is like a grass "rug on drugs" that endangers children's health, Dr. Jerome Silbert, a pathologist turned environmental activist said Wednesday at a news conference intended to build support for legislation that would ban pesticides from school grounds.
Children face greater risk from the pesticides because they are still growing and because they have lower body weights and higher respiratory rates than adults, Silbert said.
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