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Green Acre #376: How to Create a City Garden

The authors of a new book have fresh new ideas.

April 6, 2022

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Green’s Reality Is Serious

But bright versions of the color poke through the gloom.

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Green Acre #375: Boxing Days

There’s never a season, or a reason, for window boxes to be empty.

March 30, 2022

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Green Acre #374: Our Lady of the Busted Body

My fairytale cottage garden has its own ancient ruin (not me).

March 23, 2022

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Green Acre #373: Rock That!

Just the idea of making a gravel garden is making my back hurt.

March 16, 2022

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News Underfoot

Your Work From Home space just got a wee bit more stylish.

March 10, 2022

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Green Acre #372: Cherry Jubilee

It robs the garden of sunlight, but once a year our Kwanzan cherry tree renews our faith in it.

March 9, 2022

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Green Acre #371: Seeing Red

Color in dreary winter is what red-twig dogwood is all about.

March 2, 2022

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Green Acre #370: The Subject Was . . . Orchids

On my mantel or at the Smithsonian, these exotic beauties are abloom.

February 23, 2022

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Green Acre #369: Going For the Green

LittleBird Stephanie likes fake flowers but not fake grass? Go figure.

February 16, 2022

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Green Acre #368: Better Than Roses

Jasmine, gardenia, calamondin. Each is a sweet-smelling idea for Valentine’s blooms.

February 9, 2022

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Gifts From the (Throbbing) Heart

Roses and bonbons are never wrong, but there are other ideas out there.

February 3, 2022

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Green Acre #367: A Whole Lotta Lovely Lotus

You don’t need a pond to have a lotus of your own.

February 2, 2022

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Green Acre #366: The Problem With Hyacinths

Their scent foretells spring . . . a lot. Maybe too much.

January 26, 2022

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Green Acre #365: A Pencil Case

When a certain ugly cactus won’t die, you . . . save it.

January 19, 2022

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Green Acre #364: Going Evergreen-er

Storms do damage, but they also help the frugal gardener.

January 12, 2022

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What We Want to Have: 01.12.2022

Lift your January spirits with new towels, candles and a lamp that glows.

January 6, 2022

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Green Acre #363: Indoor Gardening of a Sort

I dream of garden walls, even if they’re only wallpaper.

January 5, 2022

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