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Start planning now for next spring’s planting season
As of this writing, the snow is glistening from the full moon, the fireplace is on, and seed and plant catalogs are scattered on the floor. There are so many new and heirloom plants and colors from...
Jan 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Roger Hammer, botanist in the Pine Flatwoods of Big Cypress Preserve, photographs a wildflower to update his book on everglades wildflowers. Hammer has spent his life as a naturalist and recorder of wild Florida.
The Everglades: Where the wildflowers are
OCHOPEE, Fla. — They’re so easy to miss in a landscape almost monotonously green. But for naturalist Roger Hammer, it’s the small, scattered drops of color that stand out among the slash pines a...
Dec 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Holidays offer time to reflect, plan for spring garden
For me the period between Christmas and New Year’s is a quiet time when I can clean up, clean out and prepare for the new year. This year there have been many tidbits that did not make it into my a...
Dec 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Refresh holiday arrangements as Christmas nears
It can’t be there are only three more days until Christmas. There is so much to do before then. Table arrangements that were fresh last week need replacing, as does the holly and pine tucked into t...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Christmas lights fill the yard at the Orlob residence in Kenai, Alaska.
Holiday display brightens the season
KENAI, Alaska  — The Klimpke’s Christmas lights are so extravagant oil platform workers see them as they fly over in helicopters and a Coho-based pilot uses them as a waypoint on his approach home....
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press The "Tree Of Hope" stands proud Dec. 12 in Union Beach, N.J.. A man helping neighbors gut their storm-wrecked homes found the artificial Christmas tree in the gutter with other storm debris a few days after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the Jersey shore. He then watched in amazement as the town made the tree its own, decorating it with hand-made ornaments, hand-scrawled messages of hope, lights and toys.
Rescued tree lifts wrecked town’s spirit
UNION BEACH, N.J.  — In the days after Superstorm Sandy wrecked this gritty blue-collar enclave on the New Jersey shore, creating iconic scenes of devastation and loss, the artificial Christmas tre...
Dec 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Give vintage holiday items a fresh look
Forget Bing Crosby’s classic “White Christmas.” For me, Christmastime will forever be evoked by David Cassidy crooning “My Christmas Card to You,” and I still have the 1972 Partridge Family holiday...
Dec 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Now is time to make your own fresh evergreen decorations
With Christmas just over a week away it is time to set up the Christmas tree and hang the live evergreens. For me part of the spirit of Christmas is to make my own decorations from live evergreen m...
Dec 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press This Nutcracker doll at The Whitney Shop is ready to go skiing.
Nutcrackers expand their ranks
NEW CANAAN, Conn. — The gang’s all here: the football fan, the chef, the teacher and the skier. And there’s the Nutcracker prince from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic Christmas story, who inspired them a...
Dec 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press   When designing living rooms for clients who entertain heavily around the holidays, one thought is to pair sofas with swivel chairs which allow for easy conversation in any direction, as well as coffee tables which can double as benches, and occasional tables which also work as stools as seen here.
Lots of guests coming over? Finding enough chairs for everyone can be a daunting task
The joy of home entertaining at the holidays often comes with a challenge: How do you provide enough seating for a roomful of holiday revelers with just a sofa and a few chairs? Are there creative ...
Dec 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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