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Annual Gardening School & Plant Fair at Callaway Gardens

March 15, 2011
Annual Gardening School & Plant Fair at Callaway Gardens

Garden With Confidence: Learn From Erica Glasner At The 13th Annual Callaway Gardening School Launch your Spring gardening endeavors with advice from experts at the 13th annual Callaway Gardening School March 25, 2011. Join us for a fantastic gardening experience with one of Georgia’s own gardening gurus, Erica Glasener.

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February Activities To Get Your Vegetable Garden Ready For Spring

February 10, 2011
February Activities To Get Your Vegetable Garden Ready For Spring

It seems like the last frost creeps up on us every year. Suddenly we’re scrambling to plan our crops, build extra raised beds, stock up on quality top-soil, pull out weeds, and buy the onions and potatoes before they’re sold out. For many ambitious gardeners, the first day in the 40s or 50s inspires...

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Ready To Try An Easy Indoor Garden This Winter?

December 1, 2010
Ready To Try An Easy Indoor Garden This Winter?

It’s depressing to see the dead, desolate vines after the first frost, isn’t it? Your garden that you poured so much love, toil, fertilizer, and water into all summer long has finally closed up shop and you fear having to push your cart down the shopping aisles again. But, you know… there is another...

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Spring Bulbs Showcased at Riverbanks Bulb Sale

October 22, 2010
Spring Bulbs Showcased at Riverbanks Bulb Sale

If you haven’t started thinking about your spring garden, now is the time to do it. Bulb planting season is just around the corner, and the horticulturists at Riverbanks have picked their favorites to offer at the annual Bulb Sale.

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The Horticultural Legacy at Biltmore

October 15, 2010
The Horticultural Legacy at Biltmore

OLMSTED’S LAST LANDSCAPE In the shadow of Biltmore House, America’s largest private home, are some of America’s finest formal and informal gardens. Here, too, is the birthplace of the first scientific school of forestry in the United States. And it is at Biltmore Estate that this country’s father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted,...

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Beautiful and Easy Autumn Decorating

September 28, 2010
Beautiful and Easy Autumn Decorating

I admit it. This is my favorite time of year. While friends and family are unabashed lovers of the summer, with its long sunny days, barbecues, and vacations, I wait impatiently each summer for autumn to arrive. This is decorating season. My season. When the days get shorter, and the nights chillier, our attention...

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4 Fall Garden Tasks That You Should Do

August 9, 2010
4 Fall Garden Tasks That You Should Do

Fall is a time when the garden is winding down, but the garden work isn’t! There are things that need to be done that you really shouldn’t put off until spring. If you want your garden to produce healthy plants next spring, there are some tasks you need to take care of in the...

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How to Grow Tomatoes in the Winter

July 13, 2010
How to Grow Tomatoes in the Winter

By Peter D Young You are probably reading this article because you highly doubt that you can grow tomatoes in the winter and that only the large companies can afford to do this. I am here to tell you that you can really can grow tomatoes in the winter and no you do not...

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What We Really Need to Fear About Bees

May 28, 2010
What We Really Need to Fear About Bees

What we really need to fear about bees isn’t the sting. Gardeners know that most bees are gentle creatures, and if not bothered, don’t tend to sting. The real fear is the loss of our bees … our essential pollinators. A few years ago, this story was big news, but while the media has...

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Get a Load of This: Riverbanks comPOOst Available

April 28, 2010
Get a Load of This: Riverbanks comPOOst Available

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden will take a load off this Saturday, when it launches the sale of Riverbanks comPOOst; an all natural, composted Zoo poo, effortlessly produced by some of our most famous animals: elephants, giraffe and zebras. “By taking a virtually unusable waste product and turning it into something that is beneficial to...

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