Home & Garden
home & garden: 5 Tips on how to shop for a garden in 20 minutes
Posted: May 18, 2013If you want to put a small vegetable garden in your yard today, it can be done. Let’s say your ground is prepared and you are ready to go — all you need is some ... Read more »
home & garden: County Farm Park's Britton Woods is a native plant must-see
Posted: May 15, 2013Quick! Move fast! This warm weather is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing for obvious reasons, wearing shorts without getting goose pimples is one. It’s a curse because our wonderful spring ephemerals ... Read more »
Find Mom a gift at the Chelsea Craft Fair and Home Show
Posted: Apr 30, 2013Shopping for mom can be tough. You'd like to get her something new and interesting, but inevitably, it's the same old thing. Not this year, though. The Chelsea Craft Fair and Chelsea Home Show will ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Orchid Festival to highlight one of nature's most amazing flowers
Posted: Apr 16, 2013The incredible orchid. It's beautiful, fragile and a wonder of evolution. Anyone who has seen "Adaptation," knows they have changed to make pollination easier, whether it be by mimicking bees or shooting pollen at passing ... Read more »
home & garden: The life of a dead tree - plant 'bones' shelter animals, improve ground water even after death
Posted: Mar 18, 2013Native or not, a living tree is a pretty thing to see, and the shade that trees provide is a welcome relief on a hot day, and necessary for some plants to survive. Living trees ... Read more »
home & garden: The shapes of winter - native trees and shrubs show their character
Posted: Mar 13, 2013To me, when daylight savings time kicks in and the local Dairy Queens open, Michigan spring begins, so Happy Spring everyone! Since our springs are typically random weather crap-shoots as to what a particular day ... Read more »
home & garden: Gateway gardens: Are you in danger? We want to know!
Posted: Mar 09, 2013Are you or is someone you love at risk because of a Gateway Garden? Maybe you tried gardening for the first time last year, and now you just have to go back for more. You ... Read more »
home & garden: Worst Valentine's Day gifts: Don't do it!
Posted: Feb 13, 2013“You shouldn’t have. You really shouldn’t have.” Not exactly what you want to hear when he opens your Valentine’s Day gift… And yes, it is possible to give such a bad gift that giving nothing ... Read more »
home & garden: How much space counts as a garden?
Posted: Feb 09, 2013A story on NPR in January focused on a study of urban gardening in Chicago the purpose of which was to discover the amount of space being used for growing food. The researchers tried to ... Read more »
Home & Garden: Get ready for two seed swaps on Feb. 16
Posted: Feb 08, 2013Get a jump on the growing season by attending seed swaps hosted by two local community gardening organizations on Saturday, Feb. 16. Project Grow, in partnership with Ann Arbor 350, is hosting a swap from ... Read more »
home & garden: Cat-tails: an unsung native that acts like an 'invasive'
Posted: Feb 06, 2013If you’re lucky enough to have a wetland, pond, or persistent wet area on your property, there is a very good chance you have cat-tails there. Right now, it is sporting a puffy seedhead and ... Read more »
home & garden: Is watering house plants with tea a good idea?
Posted: Feb 05, 2013My late mother-in-law was an inveterate indoor gardener and tea drinker. Mom could grow just about anything. In her care, any leaf that dropped soon took root and found itself in a pot of its ... Read more »
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