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Purple’s popular for plants
Color is what is in for plants now and for the coming year, with purple continuing to be the leading color. While purple or almost black has been around for some time, it was the deep purple sweet ...
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Rock-solid beauty
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you’re looking for solutions to landscaping challenges, decorative rock and gravel just might be the ticket. Drainage issues? Budget-friendly alternative to a paved patio? ...
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Associated Press An oval ring table from Lazy Susan's collection of Fortress home pieces.
Right at home: Some decor trends for fall, beyond
Attending the New York International Gift Fair is a little like watching television with a teenager: Lots of eye-catching visuals whiz by as the channels keep changing. The fair’s home decor sec...
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Choosing a new kitchen counter
To anyone reading the real estate ads in recent years, it could seem that granite was the only material worth using for a kitchen counter, as important as updated electrical or a reliable roof. ...
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Fall is time for lawn care
If your lawn is ragged and tired looking from the hot, dry summer, fall is the time to get it back into good shape. Now through Thanksgiving is the season to aerate, seed and fertilize your cool...
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Scaling the garden’s balance and harmony
If you garden by the signs you know that we are entering the Zodiac sign Libra. Libras like balance and harmony in their gardens without stress. They prefer plants that are not difficult to maintai...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service The Click and Grow container comes with a cartridge of Busy Lizzy impatiens seeds.
Home and garden news and notes
What’s New: Automated Flowerpot The Click and Grow container takes the gardener out of gardening. The high-tech flowerpot uses sensors, a processor and software to care for a houseplant auto...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service The firebush produces scarlet tubular flowers relished by hummingbirds and many butterflies.
Firebush adds flare to all garden types
Watching hummingbirds on a firebush this weekend reminded me of what an incredible plant we all have for our garden. I was speaking at the San Antonio Botanical Garden as part of their Amazing Butt...
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Yearly heat system checks are smart
Question: We live in a 1950s house with the original water heating plant. The oil-fired burner is 25 years old. We have been having annual tune-ups for the heating system but wonder if this is real...
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Associated Press This walkway is made from scrap steel plates and remnant cedar planks from a fence. Trash talk has helped Matthew Levesque fashion an inventive career in garden design.
Recycling can be a way to craft things of beauty
Trash talk has helped Matthew Levesque fashion an inventive career in garden design. He holds “creative reuse” workshops, and his “yardscaping” creations made from locally available items have b...
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