NEWS
By Joanna Poncavage and Joanna Poncavage,The Morning Call | June 6, 2004
White-tailed deer are strictly plant eaters. A Pennsylvania Game Commission study of the stomachs of road-killed deer found 98 plant species, including trees, shrubs, leafy plants and garden vegetables. And rhododendrons. If you have rhododendrons in your garden, and deer in the neighborhood, you probably also have a 5-foot browse line, with green leaves above and brown branches below. Deer love rhododendrons, especially in winter. So how did three busloads of rhododendron fanciers attending the American Rhododendron Society's recent national convention in King of Prussia, Pa., find anything at all to look at during their tour of several gardens belonging to members of the society's Lehigh Valley, Pa., chapter?
NEWS
By Marty Ross and By Marty Ross,Universal Press Syndicate | February 16, 2003
Gardeners are forever looking for something to wrap a flower bed around. There has to be a bed along the front of the porch, and others might be carved out around a garden shed, a birdbath or the trunks of shade trees. For many people, there's another opportunity right out by the curb: the mailbox. A garden bed around a mailbox gives gardeners a chance to put their horticultural stamp where it's sure to show. In the midst of handsome shrubs, interesting ornamental grasses or hard-working annual and perennial flowers, a standard-issue mailbox on a post becomes a piece of functional art. When there's a flower bed to visit, the trip out to the mailbox is much more interesting, even if the postman brings nothing but bills.
ENTERTAINMENT
By John Dorsey | October 30, 1997
Las Posas is a Mexican sculpture garden created between 1954 and 1984 by eccentric British collector, poet and architect Edward James. The garden is an 80-acre site filled with surrealistic concrete sculptures of architectural elements including stairs, bridges, archways and columns. Photographer Joan Rosenstein has used the garden as a setting for her photographs of the female form. The exhibit, "The Surreal World of Las Posas," at Montgomery College combines Rosenstein's black and white photographs of women in the garden with her color photographs of the garden.
FEATURES
By Susan Reimer On Gardening | January 21, 2010
T he number of home gardeners jumped by almost 40 percent last season, but nearly half of them won't be back this year. Most probably found vegetable gardening too much work. Or, because it was a pretty poor gardening season, they didn't have much success. So, in a series of columns, I'm trying to get rookie vegetable gardeners off to a solid start. Last week, we talked about siting the garden, and my advice was to consider constructing a raised bed and filling it with bags of compost.
FEATURES
By Ellen Nibali and Special to The Baltimore Sun | March 4, 2010
Question: My computer savvy grandson wants to start growing vegetables and other things. I love your phone service, but can UMD's Extension service help him through his computer? Answer: Live Chat is only our latest offering. At www.hgic.umd.edu, we field email questions in our popular "Send A Question" feature. Also through "Send A Question," he can send us digital photos of weeds, insects, diseases or any other unidentified pest or plant he encounters. Videos demonstrate gardening techniques and what invasive plants heÃÂll want to watch out for. There are a slew of short publications on topics from fruits and flowers to soil and wildlife he can read at his leisure.
NEWS
By John F. Kelly | April 22, 1992
AROUND this time every year, I start to think about spring planting. What triggers my thoughts is the arrival in the mail of the first seed catalogs. Reading the thick, colorful guides and looking at the pictures of vegetables ripening on the vine always makes me feel ould soddish, and for weeks after the catalogs arrive I clump around the house in my oversized rubber boots and bib overalls and talk about farmy things -- rows of this, stands of that.The...