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Trade those yesteryear plants for something that adds drama, color and eye-catching elements to your yard.

Schoolchildren from New Jersey shore communities battered by Superstorm Sandy will join Michelle Obama for a garden harvest next week.

New York's Central Park provides the fixings for much of her larder, which includes wines, pickles, jams and jellies made from flavourful weeds.

Just the other day, in North Hollywood on Sylvan Street, I bumped into two of my favorite trees.

The annual gardening competition, Billericay In Bloom, has been launched and greenfingered enthusiasts of any age are invited to enter their brightest blooms and greenest gardens.

The brutal murder of a soldier has inspired a gardener to extend his charity mowathon to raise money for Help for Heroes.

Among those representing the county at the event, which ends on Saturday, was the team from Kelways Garden Centre in Langport.

Helpers nurture seedlings at Rothamsted Research in advance of Markyate plant sale in aid of Hospice of St Francis, May 2013 Spring is here and it's time to get out and about - and if you like nothing more than having a nose around somebody else's glorious garden, there are some dates for your diary on the horizon.

If you're like me, you're counting the days until the first red, ripe tomato appears in the garden or at the farmer's market.

Soil scientists talk about bentonite, illite, montmorillinite, chlorite, kaolinite and vermiculite.

Its imaginative 'sight loss' garden, designed by Darren Hawkes, was created to encourage show visitors and TV viewers to consider the impact of sight loss and included landscaping and planting to represent four specific sight conditions.

Home gardeners making out their shopping list of annuals to plant should beware of a disease that is inflicting the always-popular impatiens, a Purdue Extension plant disease specialist says.

The Swansboro Parks and Recreation Department has been awarded a $3,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina as part of the Nourishing North Carolina initiative.

The Golden Door, in Escondido, California is one of the most exclusive and well known spas in the world.

CIVIC bosses have confirmed that an ash tree which was cut down in Winchester city centre did not have a tree preservation order on it.

Garden designer, Leonie Cornelius from Fivemilebourne, Co. Leitrim will be designing a show garden for the prestigious national gardening show Bloom In The Park.

It's manufactured from the olive-like fruit and seeds of a tropical evergreen tree native to India.

Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.

Shoppers at Habitat for Humanity ReStore were treated to a demonstration on creative container gardening recently sponsored by the Master Gardeners Group of Gaston County.

I approached Mulenga Harangua from behind as he stood in the lot next to the charred hulk of the "Obstruction of Justice House" at Detroit's Heidelberg Project.