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Voles, Deer And An Organic Royal "Ears like open taxi doors, the fuddy-duddy mannerisms and marital missteps" is the way Virginia Smith describes her subject. If you're a fan of royalty you will have no difficulty in recognizing that the person she is talking about is Prince Charles. For the... Hunker Down Veggies, Wisteria And A Solid Flower Wisteria is one of my favorite climbing plants and there are several specimens in full bloom just now. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image. You need plenty of room to allow a wisteria to reach its full potential. In fact regular pruning is needed... The 10 Minute Gardener and a Desert Peach Whenever I see a Q&A article where readers questions are answered by a local expert, I always take the time to scan the questions because it's amazing what useful tips you can pick up from these columns. "Reader questions, Master Gardener answers" is the title... Wild Gardening and the White House Veggie Patch The new White House vegetable garden is all over the papers just now, although the arrival of Bo has caused something of a diversion. It seems that the apparently simple task of growing veggies has over the years been the source of considerable controversy... Lawnmowers, Tunnels And The White House Garden When the title is "Petrol Versus Cheaper Electric Lawnmowers: When Cost-Cutting Becomes False Economy" it's perfectly obvious which line the author is going to take. In fact this is a press relaease by a UK company that sells expensive petrol lawnmowers. "Electrics... No Dig. 10 Seeds And A TimeLapse Video Gadget No-till gardening always sounds like such a great idea. No digging your veggie plot every year, or even that hallowed ritual of double digging to break up the subsoil sounds almost too good to be true. Needless to say there is rather more to it than just abandoning... Newbies, Containers and Seed Swaps With the economy in its present sorry state it's hardly surprising that the papers are full of stories about how more and more people are growing their own vegetables along with other ways of cutting their weekly budgets. Here are some suggestions from two... Four Legged Critters and Positive Flowers What starts off as a book review quickly turns into a discussion as to whether plants can be affected by the gardener's state of mind. The book is "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell which is about the psychology of first impressions, but the article is concerned with... Ki To Ki No Tamariba and Defiant Gardens You would not normally think of gardening and warfare in the same context, but this unlikely combination is the subject of a new book by Kenneth Helphand called "Defiant Gardens". The book shows how, from the trenches of World War 1 to the deserts of Iraq,... Monet in Bangkok and Chelsea Golds "Would you like to see Monaco, Vienna or the environment that inspired Claude Monet to create his famous water-lily painting? Now there is no need to take a flight, because they can all be found in Bangkok" caught my eye as I was scanning the headlines and... |
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