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HOME GARDENERS ARE BEING WARNED TO BEWARE OF LATE BLIGHT. THE DESTRUCTIVE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE IS KILLING TOMATO AND POTATO PLANTS IN GARDENS AROUND THE STATE .

Celebrate Independence Day with a fireworks display of flowers in the garden. Hardy fuchsias get my vote as the flowering shrub that explodes with the most blooms this time of year.

Book stores and Web sites are filled with the latest manuals geared for both advanced and novice gardeners.

Marianne Binetti will appear at 3 p.m. Saturday at The Commons at Federal Way, Buds and Blooms Festival.

Too many tomatoes? No problem. So all your lettuce mysteriously died but you ended up with a bumper crop of tomatoes.

Sea horses are just so darn cute. Which should make the Monterey Bay Aquarium's newest exhibit, "The Secret Lives of Seahorses,'' a big draw.

Strong demand for California bonds will allow the state to spend $2.7 billion on public works projects delayed during the recent state budget impasse, officials said Monday.

Watch out socialism is comeing to America.It may be in bits and pieces but by 2012 we will no longer reconize this once great country.

Q I inherited six plates from my great-aunt. To the best of my knowledge they were purchased in Portugal in the 1890s.

"I'm really mystified by homeowners who will plop down $30,000 dollars to a landscape designer who will come up with a plant palette without ever thinking to take a spoonful of soil to test first.

Rutgers University will hold its Spring Home Gardener's School on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Those who attend the day-long event offering four lectures of your choosing can pick topics from selecting the right perennial for the right location to designing great containers and much more.

Soroptimist International of Chico will host its 23rd annual Home, Garden and Antique Show, March 21 and 22.

If you walk into your garden and feel that the hungry caterpillar from Eric Carle's storybook has paid a visit, pest control might be in order.

From flowing planting beds to an elaborate rock-lined pool and spa, the Woodway garden of Stacy Ducharme and Robert Gradwohl is an elegant Old World haven that won grand prize in the 16th-annual Pacific ...