Monday, August 07, 2006

Flowers - The Garden Life: July Garden Clippings


The Garden Life: July Garden Clippings
Columbian - To grow a wisteria happily, you must have two goals in life; controlling rampant growth and learning how to prune to insure the most prolific spring flower show possible. In all methods of training, plants need initial support and ruthless thinning

Recycled water vote looms
Australian Broadcasting Corp. - When Ms Thorley took the helm of the Toowoomba City Council, the Darling Downs town was best-known for its spring flower carnival. Its fame - or infamy - now springs from the council's radical plan to solve the town's increasing water woes: recycling

Now's the time to get ready for fall, winter
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - But camellias are already fat with buds for winter flowering and azaleas are forming spring flower buds this month and next. Roses still have a solid flower cycle ahead. TIME FOR NEXT SEASON Get plants ready for fall and winter, by fertilizing lightly

Pike authority tries to help garden grow
Boston Globe - For example, after losing patrons for a decade, the society's flagship New England Spring Flower Show this year took in $1.3 million in ticket sales and attendance rose 10 percent to more than 86,000, Herrera-Mishler said. ``We're very excited

Spring still holds onto winter coat
Daily Star - For those who want to get a jump on spring flower planting, there are a number of types of flowers that should survive early spring's cold temperatures, said Brian Fawcett, owner of Oneonta's Asbury Gardens. "Depending on availability, the earliest

being there
San Francisco Guardian - The sweet scent of the spring flower laced the air, providing a kind of olfactory accompaniment to the city's hyperactivity. While Kiev sits, more or less, in the center of the country, L'viv is in the far western corner of Ukraine, just 40 miles