Stonyford Cottage, Stoneyford Lane, Northwich, Cheshire Developed on wetland, the gardens here give ideas for
gardening on wet ground - iris, primulas, astilbes.
Each of the 20 recipient garden programs will receive $1,000 in tools and materials for their gardens, including a $500 gift certificate to NGA's
Gardening With Kids online catalog, a tool package from Ames True Temper, plant starts from Bonnie Plants, two Growums Garden Kits, a raised bed from Rustic Cedar, and a generous seed donation from High Mowing Seeds.
Helen Jones from Shropshire gives a demonstration called In The Mood to Denbigh Floral Art Club, Capel Mawr vestry, 7.30pm Geraint Hughes of the Bwtri will speak on Food presentation and hydroponics to the Morfa Nefyn
Gardening club, 7.15pm at the Ganolfan.
"There is no better way to beat the winter doldrums than to flip through a stack of mailorder
gardening catalogs or visit online
gardening websites," said Howard Kaplan, president of the Mailorder
Gardening Association (MGA).
However, unlike earlier community
gardening movements, which were born of public necessity for food, the community
gardening movement of the 1970s arose out of social activism.
Buffalo, N.Y, is home to Urban Roots, a cooperatively owned retail
gardening center that offers plants and plant-related supplies.
2nd prize: Set of Brabantia barbecue tools; a children's
gardening set from Bouncy Happy People, worth pounds 9.95 (www.bouncyhappypeople.co.uk); 3rd prize: Lakeland compost crock apple; Organic
Gardening by Geoff Hamilton.
It wasn't until I bought this bungalow that I got interested in
gardening. I took over the flower beds from my husband."
Authoritative, superbly organized, and thoroughly "user friendly', "Dear In My Garden" is a seminal and core addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library
Gardening Resources reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
Offering a
gardening cornucopia of landscaping ideas to transform any yard or small garden corner from the ordinary to the extraordinary, Before & After Garden Makeovers is as inspiring as it is informative, and a thorough delight to simply browse through for applicable ideas adapted to the reader's own landscaping or
gardening situation and resources.
Gardening is the world's most popular and enduring recreational activity, feeding the spirit and the body, reducing dependence on the florist and the supermarket, and, when done organically, curtailing the use of toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The Spirituality of
Gardening By Donna Sinclair Northstone Publishing $40.00