Gardening tips for the Pacific NorthwestNews from TheNewsTribune.com:
First time vegetable gardeners make two common mistakes, according to Marianne Binetti.
First, they make their gardens too big. Second, they plant too early.
She understands the first one. Buoyed with enthusiasm inexperienced gardeners take on too much at once leading to disappointments and disasters.
As for the second mistake – planting at the wrong time – Binetti has a solution. The garden columnist, author and lecturer has just come out with a new book, “Vegetable Growing for Washington and Oregon,” that gives a plant-by-plant breakdown listing planting and harvesting times and methods, recommended varieties, [...] Continue Reading…

Gardens around the world and the Northwest provide inspirationNews from The Wenatchee World Online:

Gloria Kupferman photo
Aloes bloom with colorful succulents in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

I returned recently from spending a week in the Garden of Eden. Eight years ago, I was privileged to visit a fabulous garden in Argentina (La Carolina, a private estate), and it has only become lovelier with the growth of numerous ornamental trees.
The trip got me thinking about my most memorable travel experiences; the best of them included gardens.
Not everyone planning a vacation or business trip will think about gardens to visit. But [...] Continue Reading…

Victory Gardens to Sprout Up with Saturday BlitzNews from Patch.com:
Access to fresh, healthy food is a right, Gretchen Mead says, even for city dwellers.
A small army of volunteers will take to yards in Milwaukee and Shorewood next week, pushing some hundreds of pounds of soil and seeding more than 220 raised beds in the Victory Garden Initiative’s fourth annual “Victory Garden Blitz.”
The message: look beyond the produce aisle and into their own yards.
“We’re going to be moving close to 300 yards of soil all around the city, so it’s no small task,” executive director of the Victory Garden Initiative [...] Continue Reading…

Gardening Tips: DECORATE…The Art of GrowingNews from Newsolio:

Consider your flower garden a work of art, outdoor artistry. The famous French painter Claude Monet considered his garden at Givenchy his most important work of art. His paintings that hang in galleries around the world attest to his love of his garden.

Gardening is an art form as it allows the gardener the freedom to pick and choose…complete creative license. How big or small, what colors, etc. Today’s nurseries hold untold wonders of plants from around the world. I look upon my own garden as an ever changing and evolving place to [...] Continue Reading…

Chelsea Fringe 2012: gardening at the cutting edge alongside Chelsea’s greatsNews from Telegraph.co.uk:
Richard Reynolds has just completed something of a marathon guerrilla-gardening spruce based around Elephant and Castle, of which both the Guerrilla Lavender Field (Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 junction with St George’s Road) and St George’s Circus (SE1) are the largest and most spectacular, while the “pimped” pavements of London Road (10 tree pits on the west side) are more quirky and incongruous. “All these plots remain gardened without official permission,” says Richard, “though they have been accepted and more recently welcomed by ‘the establishment’.” They will be [...] Continue Reading…

Gardening is good for kidsNews from Poughkeepsie Journal:

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Gardening Book Teaches Easier Vegetable Seed StartingNews from Virtual-Strategy Magazine:

Seeds of the Month Club retailer and “Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person” author, Michael C. Podlesny, recently [...] Continue Reading…

Container Gardening is Fun and EasyNews from Patch.com:

Remember the days when Mom’s would swoon over a homemade gift? Why not revive that tradition by creating a lovely flower container for that special woman and give her a Mother’s Day gift that will she will admire all summer long.
A flowering container is actually an easy process and all the ingredients can be purchased with one stop at your local garden center. There are just a few simple things to consider when choosing materials and putting the container together. The steps below should help ease any apprehension and result in a [...] Continue Reading…

Master Gardeners | What to do in your May gardenNews from Yakima Herald-Republic:
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”
– Ruth Stout

A special thanks to all of you who came to our Master Gardener Plant Sale last weekend and helped make it such a huge success. Proceeds from the sale go toward providing horticultural education and outreach to adults and children in our community.

Remember to honor those special ladies in your life — it’s not too late to pick up a Mother’s Day gift of flowers, a plant, shrub, garden [...] Continue Reading…

Local Event Offers Tips for GardeningNews from KIMT:RURAL HOLLANDALE, Minn. — It sounds like the weather will be great this weekend.If you’re looking for a great way to spend Mother’s Day, look no further than your own hands!An area greenhouse is offering a great time for those with a desire to improve their green thumb.Workers with the Hilltop Greenhouse and Farm in Rural Hollandale are offering ‘how-to’ courses and activities this holiday weekend.It’s a chance to get your flowers and plants, looking more like these.”This weekend were having specials and were doing seminars on water gardening, container gardening and [...] Continue Reading…

Garden Help: You, too, can be a master gardenerNews from Florida Times-Union:
Classes to become a master gardener are gearing up in Northeast Florida. If you have an interest in gardening and serving your community, this class may be for you.
Master gardener is a title given to individuals who receive in‑depth horticultural training from county extension agents and, in return, give 75 hours of volunteer service helping their local county extension office. The program is under the direction of the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Master gardeners join the program for a variety of [...] Continue Reading…