3 hrs ago | Sun Chronicle
Landscape Lighting: A Great Way to Dress Up Your Home
The real estate market may be in a slump, but not all industries having to do with the home are in trouble.
7 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News
Home: The right way to water your landscape
Water newly planted trees at the base of the tree, and saturate the entire root ball.
11 hrs ago | Las Cruces Sun-News
How to enjoy your home's great outdoor living spaces
Sizzling dinners on the grill. Parties on the deck or patio. Relaxing by an outdoor fireplace on cool evenings.
16 hrs ago | Lansing State Journal
Biz blooms for friends with bright idea on where to plant
EAST GRAND RAPIDS - For a while, Kerry VerMeulen kept mum on her idea: an invention to gauge sunlight so gardeners know where to plant finicky flowers.
20 hrs ago | Medford Mail Tribune
If it's absolutely needed, chose one that doesn't harm the environment, or you.
In an ideal world, pesticides would never be needed in the garden. In the real world, they occasionally are.
Biff America: Killing cute things
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If you have ever dreamed about what it's like to be a butterfly, then flutter over to the "Amazing Butterflies" exhibition at London's Natural History museum before August 17.
Food played role in Mandela's apartheid struggle
Food featured prominently in Nelson Mandela's struggle against apartheid, from using cooking pots to smuggle messages during his 27-year imprisonment to his first dinner of chicken curry as a free man.
O'Fallon conference center on track, developer says
Wet weather and a weak economy have slowed the development of the Regency Conference Center at Greenmount Road and Interstate 64.
The Carteret County News-Times
Whether you have a few plants at your desk, a container garden on your deck, or a full-fledged garden in your backyard, gardening is enjoyed on many different levels.
World War II battalion from Texas remembers grinding battle
After more than 60 years, they remember the cold rain and the ferocity of combat in a fog-shrouded forest straight out of a fairy tale.
How To Look And Feel Your Best All Summer Long
If you worked hard to get swimsuit-ready this year, maintaining your beach body is a top priority.
How to Have a Beautiful and Fruitful Garden
Many gardeners who love their ornamental landscape are not sure if they want to give up space for a vegetable garden that needs to be replanted every year.
Smithsonian dishes the dirt on dirt
Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths.
Versatile blackberry is great in a variety of dishes and can be frozen
Good Mrs. Rabbit, widowed mother of four bunnies, knew she could trust her daughters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail to stay on the lane to pick blackberries.
Cathedral dig yields finds from 1700s New Orleans
The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter.
When cookbook author and radio host Lynn Rossetto Kaspar writes about pesto in her new book 'The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper' , a two-paragraph description of pesto morphs into culinary romance bordering ...
The Tree of Life and its super fruit
The Baobab is known as Africa's 'tree of life', holding thousands of litres of water.
Commentary: Food and gas pain on the home front
"Life isn't much fun anymore now that the wife has me doing all kinds of nutty things to economize." "Ah, yes, you speak of the way Americans are responding to rapidly rising fuel and food costs." "You got that ...
Marijuana farm found in C.V. hills
Law enforcement officials have destroyed almost $128 million of marijuana found growing in the hills of Carmel Valley.