|
|
| home about us free pdf software downloads links privacy site map copyright policy |
|
|
Professionals and avid gardeners alike will gain inspiration from
alluring design ideas and exceptional perennial plant Cole is a contributing
editor for Horticulture magazine, and he writes regularly for Fine Gardening,
Landscape Architecture, American Gardener and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
His personal garden is a frequent stop on local tours and has been featured
on national television shows for the Home & Garden Television Network
(HGTV) and for Martha Stewart, and he has been featured in many publications,
including Fine Gardening. His work has been featured in The New York Times
and in magazines such as Horticulture, Traditional Home, Pacific Horticulture
and gardening magazines in Japan and Europe. In his spare time, Richard
lectures widely and writes on gardening topics for Horticulture, Pacific
Horticulture and Fine Gardening, among other magazines. Janet is the author
of Designing Your Gardens and Landscape; a companion book about perennial
A L T E R N A T I V E S T O P E S T I C I D E S This booklet was created to help gardeners identify local nurseries and retail garden stores committed to stocking natural/organic garden products. - stock a minimum of 18 natural/organic products during the gardening season from the guide product categores listed on pages 1-3 Seminars/natural gardening guide Metro offers free natural gardening and composting seminars to help gardeners maintain a healthy chemical-free garden. A free alternatives to pesticides guide that offers gardening tips to help you reduce garden pest problems also is available. Call Metro Recycling Information at (503) 234-3000 for a natural gardening seminar schedule. Natural techniques garden Visit a chemical-free garden grown and maintained using natural gardening techniques and strategies taught at Metro's natural gardening seminars. Call the natural gardening message hotline between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Metro's annual natural gardening techniques tour Don't worry - the VSU has a team of advisors dedicated to matching you up with local volunteer placements. Whatever your reasons for volunteering, and whatever you want to do, If you've got 45 minutes spare, we'll try to find you something that suits you. To book an appointment, drop into our offices on the second floor of the UCL Bloomsbury or email volunteering@ucl.ac.uk . Next week we will be holding a brainstorming session. The aim is to receive feedback and ideas from YOU, the volunteers, about what the Volsoc and the VSU could do to improve and facilitate your time as volunteers . Here are some suggestions: 1. Do students feel they have enough support form the VSU? Is that their role or maybe they should just provide us with placements? 2. Do you like gardening? Waterwise gardening2www.sgaonline.org.au Waterwise Gardening On average we use just over one third of our household water on our gardens. By saving water in the garden, significantly more is available to allow healthy flow rates in our rivers and wetlands. This is essential to the wellbeing of the plants and animals that rely on our shared water resources for moisture and habitat. Water in the cool of the morning or evening Water longer and less frequently Mulch Compost Plant some indigenous plants Put in a watering system Reduce the amount of lawn Don't cut your lawn too short Park the car on the lawn to rinse it Use a broom to clean up instead of the hose Check for leaks As a member of Sustainable Gardening Australia, we ask you to consider ways of conserving water in your garden. For more information refer to the Sustainable Gardening Australia handouts on `Watering Methods', `Water Efficient Irrigation Systems', `Lawns', `Which Tank do I choose', `Rainwater' and `Greywater'. YOU CANIf you are part of a community or group that would like to start a garden, our Community Nutrition Promoter can help you get the organizing process underway. Gardening Workshops Contact us to find out about workshops you would like to be informed about in areas such as: we have various resources available that can be borrowed from the library. Information sheets on various topics, displays and a video on community gardens are on hand. This is the land you and your neighbours could be gardening on! Gardening can be a wonderful way to relax, get some exercise, beautify your community and stretch your food budget. Gardening gives us an opportunity to experience nature's cycles, and to teach our children that carrots grow in the earth, not in cellophane packages at the supermarket. Garden even if you don't have a backyard Learn and share gardening skills Cut costs by buying seeds and tools with others Experience a sense of community with your neighbours Get help with lifting 4H 2K catalogYouth gain experience in growing plants for food or decoration. Learn the basic biology behind plant growth and maintenance. Discusses the values, ecosystem, regions, and management of forests. Leader's guide provides lesson plans and materials needed for projects. Each publication in this series is a member and leader manu-al, combined. The cultivation of corn is the focus of this K-3 curriculum. Provides assistance in planning project meetings. Includes indoor gardening, outdoor gardening, flower arranging, composting and basic plant science. Complete guide for adults who want to teach children about gardening.butterfly gardening larval foodIn order to maintain resident butterfly populations in your yard you must provide, in a sunny area, both larval food plants for caterpillars and a variety of nectar sources for adult butterfly. Allow grasses and weeds to grow in or near the garden for cover and larval food sources. DO NOT use pesticides or herbicides in or near a butterfly garden. The following list includes widely distributed Florida butterfly species that you may attract to a butterfly garden and some of their larval food plants. Nectar plants are listed on the back of this page. Butterflies generally prefer aromatic flowers that are colored orange, yellow, pink, purple, or red. Many large, beautiful cultivated flowers have little nectar and will not attract butterflies. Deep throated, drooping or enclosed flowers are generally unsuitable. Box 690278, Vero Beach, FL 32969-0278 (772-462-0000)) for sources of native species adapted to your area.Master Gardener Program GuideThe first Master Gardener Program began in 1972, when Washington State University Cooperative Extension created an outreach program to train volunteers to provide reliable gardening information to home gardeners at clinics in the community. Jenny Morris, an avid gardener since 1973, took the Master Gardener Program at VanDusen in 1996, and is an active Master Gardener in good standing with the BC Association of Master Gardeners. She is a dedicated volunteer, giving over 3000 hours to VanDusen Botanical Garden and the BC Association of Master Gardeners since 1994. The Master Gardener Program is an intensive training program for the enthusiastic home gardener providing up-to-date, solid information on all the gardening basics. A series of qualified instructors, experts in their fields, will share trade secrets on: soils composting shrubs trees plant identification perennials and annuals berries vegetables plant propagation pruning weeds pests and their controls andIs your groundwater and surface water protected from your lawn care and gardening activities? Lawns and gardens add beauty, provide habitat for many plants and animals, and can help protect the environment by filtering out pollutants and reducing soil runoff. Unfortunately, improper stor-age and application of these products may result in products moving through the soil into the groundwater or leaching into surface waters such as estuaries, bays, creeks, or sounds. This can cause damage or kill aquatic plants and animals as well as cause pollution of groundwa-ter and drinking water. It is important to know how to maintain these areas while still protecting your water supply and the surrounding coastal waters. If you answer a question either a or b, you have few problems with your lawn care and gardening activities. If you would like further help in assess-ing the condition of your lawn care or gardening activities, please contact your nearest Cooperative Extension You and Your Land-Landscaping & GardeningIt also improves the quality of your local stream or pond and becomes a delightful place to spend your time. Look around your property and assess its physical conditions -- what is shaded, what is rocky, where is it windy, where is the grass soggy day after day. If the project is larger than you can handle, hire a gardener, landscape designer, or landscape architect, or work with the staff from a local nursery to develop a plan. If you don't have a long tape measure, a 25 foot or 50 foot long garden hose or measured piece of string will work. It can serve as a handy companion to your record sheet, found on page 77 of this book. If you have a small lot, equate 10 feet with every inch on your ruler. On a large lot, you might need to equate 30 feet with every inch on your ruler. Or those lovely shrubs that were so appealing when they were 3 feet tall now cover your kitchen window and block the morning sun. Gardeners frequently injure their plants with too much or tooWILDLIFE GARDENING (3688)Everyone can do their bit for biodiversity by gardening for wildlife at home. The secret of gardening with nature is to relax: the solution to some problems may be to do nothing at all. Wildlife-friendly gardening 5 Finally tuck the sheet under at the edges and weight them down with turves or stones. Wildlife-friendly gardening 9 Do not dig up wild plants for your garden - it rarely succeeds, it's illegal and robs the countryside of wild colour. Wildlife-friendly gardening 13 passion for peanuts inside orange nylon bags (make sure the nuts have not been chemically treated). Compost heaps are habitat as well as a greener form of gardening; grass snakes love their inner heat and sometimes use them to incubate their eggs. Wildlife-friendly gardening 15 baskets can be an answer - try wild herbs and scented bedding plants, germinated from seed in pots. Many gardening products have caused and still cause harm to wildlife habitats not only in Britain but elsewhere in the world.Folklife%20FALL%2099The proj-ect, a collaborative effort with the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, will result in the production of a portable exhibit that will travel to schools, museums and libraries throughout the state. During the research phase of the grant, folklorist and project director Anne Kimzey will be travelling the state with cameras and tape recorder to document a variety of topics related to gardening for the purpose of contributing to the preservation of Alabama's gardening heritage. Gardens themselves may be an ephemeral art form, but many of the traditional preferences, beliefs and practices associated with garden-ing endure, she explained. Georgiana Jenkins decorates her Montgomery flower garden with metal strips, a whitewashed brick border and a tire planter. Structures such as grape arbors, fences and borders also add functional and design ele-ments to a garden. Collecting the traditional lore of gardening is another goal of the proj-ect. Therefore, backgroundAggie Roberts, Vocational Education Instructor Container plants usually require more attention than those growing in the ground, but their potential advantages may make the extra care worthwhile. For the gardener with little or no garden space, planting in containers is the only way to have a garden. Even those with plenty of garden space can enjoy plants such as seasonal flowers, vegetables, herbs and even small shrubs or trees, grown in containers. Choosing a Container Pots, boxes, baskets or anything that holds soil in which a plant will grow may be used. The function of a container is many fold: hold a plant and its root system together; provide a reservoir for water and nutrients; provide stability for the plant as it gets bigger, and compliment the plant with its color, texture, shape and size. For these reasons, gardeners growing container plants turn to potting mixes which hold sufficient water and air for good root growth. A good planting mix is probably the April is National Garden Month, a time to celebrate the benefits of plants and gardening. This year's celebration promises to be bigger and better than ever--featuring educational activities, public events and gardening seminars, as well as government proclamations--all building excitement and increased participation in gardening. To help your students better understand the value of plants, Dole Food Company, Inc. has teamed up with Weekly Reader and the National Gardening Association (NGA) to bring you this free educational program, Grow and Give a Garden! With additional help from the National Garden Bureau, we have enclosed a packet of seeds with this poster so you can start the fun of gardening with your students right away. Gardening and working with plants is a form of hands-on learning that gets kids involved on all levels. Gardening captures kids' interest, teaches nurturing skills, and gives kids a sense of pride in their accomplishments. Gardening also provides Wildlife Gardening BibliographyWildlife Gardening Bibliography 1998. Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife. Wildlife Gardening Bibliography 2001 Page 1 1999. Florida Butterfly Gardening: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Gardening with Wildlife. Stokes Bird Gardening. 1995. The National Wildlife Federation's Guide to Gardening for Wildlife: How to Create 1990. Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Wildlife Gardening Bibliography 2001 Page 2GARDEN01Gardening in a prison isn't like any other kind of gardening you ever have or ever will do! In some ways, it's better. The inmates are the ingredient that makes it so special and they are the most polite and appreciative persons with whom we in Mo/Kan Region's Gardening from the Heart project, have ever worked. The Lansing Facility is in Kansas, near Kansas City. We started three years ago in Minimum Security, which is about three quarters of a mile away from the main prison. We are fortunate to have a greenhouse with which to work. In the winter we start seeds, make cuttings and maintain some of the plants used in the offices. The gardening program provides an educational program that gives them something to do while incarcerated that is placid, provides research based information, can be practiced inside the walls or knowledge that can be taken with them when they are released. The produce raised goes into the kitchen, so all the inmates benefit from what we are ableIf you would like to include a free listing of a gardening event or activity happening in the Grapevine section of Gardens West Magazine, please submit the following information (if applicable) to grapevine@gardenswest.com or Fax: 604-879-5110. Tel: 604-879-4991. Listings for regular society meetings will only be listed once or twice a year. Name of society/club/organization: Name/title and short description of event: Any special speakers/guests: Date: Time: Location (name of venue, street address & city): Please note that Grapevine is a free service provided by Gardens West Magazine to inform our readers of gardening events taking place in the month of the issue in which those listings appear. gard1Water quality in any area affects the quality of life. Industry, recreation and even the wholesomeness of the fishandshellfishyoueatdependonit. Streamsriversand storm drains are direct connections from your yard to rivers, Long Island Sound, bays and the ocean. What'you do in your yard contributes to clean or polluted coastal and groundwaters. Sound Gwdening practices can reduce the threat to water quality while heiping you have a better garden. Our Sound is in Trouble Many areas of Long Island Sound suffer from past and present pollution. SOUND GARDENING This is a program to integrate good gardening practices with good water quality practices. Sound Gardening can add not only to the value of your property and the pleasure derived from it, but also contributes to a cleaner Long Island Sound. For more information about Sound Gardening for both a better garden and a cleaner Sound, call or visit your local In New York: In Connecticut: Cooperative Extension office. | |
