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The New Year comes during a dormant season in the garden, but the garden that is sleeping can still be improved upon.

After writing this column for more than 25 years, this is still the most requested reprint, so as a gift each year I repeat this tradition and offer the column so it can be sent copyright free from my Web site at www.binettigarden.com. Just go to the bottom of the opening Web page to find the poem.

It's mid December and houseplants are making inroads into winter gardening. Although poinsettias are the No.

The beginning of December is the time to deck your halls with boughs of holly clipped from any overgrown holly shrubs and swing swags of cedar from the porch railings, collected from the cedar branches brought down by wind storms.

The English are the best gardeners in the world. OK, I admit that I've seen beautiful gardens everywhere I've traveled, from New Zealand to Sicily, but the sheer number of floriferous masterpieces in Great Britain puts them at the top of the list when it comes to great gardens and great gardeners.

The Japanese Garden Festival includes an Ikebana display and a chrysanthemum show and sale, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Time is running out to register for the Coachella Valley Water District's 23rd annual Water Wise Landscape Workshop for Home Gardeners on Friday and Saturday at the University of California, Riverside's Graduate Center in Palm Desert.

Nothing says "English gardens" like the fragrant, double-flowering David Austin roses.

The last week of October means it is really time to rip out your weary, frost-bitten annuals like marigolds, petunias and tomatoes and add them to the compost pile.

The third week in October is a beautiful time of year here in the Pacific Northwest as fall foliage reminds us all we are more than just the Evergreen State.

Marianne Binetti will teach a one-day gardening class at Green River Community College, Enumclaw campus, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct.

Freezing temperatures are on their way for many parts of our viewing area. For many of us who have gardens, that means an unofficial end to the summer bounty.

In a Times op-ed yesterday about this season's late blight on tomatoes, Dan Barber points out that it wasn't just a wet, cool summer that created perfect conditions for the fungus, but more gardeners .

In a Times op-ed yesterday about this season's late blight on tomatoes, Dan Barber points out that it wasn't just a wet, cool summer that created perfect conditions for the fungus, but more gardeners .

In a Times op-ed yesterday about this season's late blight on tomatoes, Dan Barber points out that it wasn't just a wet, cool summer that created perfect conditions for the fungus, but more gardeners .

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.