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Hellstrips in the Wall Street Journal
It was fun driving WSJ garden writer Anne Marie Chaker around to show her my favorite curbside gardens, but was surprised to see her one snapshot of my garden (and me) appear in the accompanying slide show. Here’s the article, and while that link won’t work for nonsubscribers a week from now, you can always [...]
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Curbside gardens are compiled here, with examples from both coasts and in between. They’re popping up everywhere.
Urban gardening to the max in Buffalo! Please, no more jokes about the Rust Belt and blizzards, now that Buffalo’s on the map as the City of Gardens. Read all about it.
In urban gardening news: turning alleyways into child-friendly gardens. And Harvard’s Peter Del Tredici recommends urban plants that’ll shock you. Slate’s “Don’t Sweat the Invasion” is also pretty challenging to what we think about invasive plants.
Union of Concerned Scientists Get Gardening Right is a rave review of their Climate-Friendly Gardening Guide.
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- http://bit.ly/d3Z5AB My interview with Timber Press's new guy, Andrew Beckman. I might have gushed a bit, but he's so nice! 2 days ago
- http://bit.ly/bGhSFv Is growing marijuana gardening? Should the hort world sell the supplies? Great discussion in comments. 3 days ago
- http://bit.ly/cReJXB Garden center's food event was awesome, and example of what a local retailer can do. Marketing+doing good. 4 days ago
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