Posted on : 18-08-2009 | By : Admin
You might not readily associate gardening and landscaping with skin care. If you are not well versed in the subject, there are things you should know about skin care while working on garden landscapes in order to protect your largest bodily organ. These skin caretips will help you ensure your skin remains in wonderful, glowing condition 
while you maintain your garden landscape in lush beauty. Sunshine makes our garden landscapes grow and thrive but it also can harm our skin. Many cases of various types of skin cancer are directly related to unprotected skin andsun exposure….
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Posted on : 14-08-2009 | By : Admin
Want to know how flowers took over the world millions of years ago? I just read this fabulous post @torontogardens that turned me on to the great article from the BBC about the explosion of flowering life that occurred over a 40 to 50 million year period.
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Posted on : 13-08-2009 | By : Admin
Campania International has announced a new license with the Smithsonian Institution, the worlds largest research and museum complex, to produce a significant line of hand-crafted containers, rich in American history.
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Posted on : 11-08-2009 | By : Admin
Posted on : 09-08-2009 | By : Admin
Summer is slowly slipping away and most of us garden enthusiests are harvesting or getting ready to harvest the fruits and vegetables of our labor. I myself have had a very good crop of Zucchini that we have been harvesting over the past couple of weeks. We also have decided that we are going to make a Zucchini caserole this afternoon to go with are dinner for this evening. Hmmm I can taste it already.
Even though it may be late in the vegetable gardening season. There is still time to grow vegetables that you can harvest in the Fall and still keep your green thumb doing good things for your garden. Vegetables such as carrots, broccoli and collards are a great way to get started with a Fall vegetable garden. Here are a few Fall gardening tips from Kenny who obviously knows a few things about how to get your Fall garden flourishing with garden vegetables.
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Posted on : 08-08-2009 | By : Admin
Check out this great chart from the Farmers Almanac to help figure out your areas first frost date… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on : 06-08-2009 | By : Admin
In case you haven’t noticed by now, this page hasn’t been updated in a few weeks. But the blogging continues on Newsday’s new-and-improved website.
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Posted on : 06-08-2009 | By : Admin
Congratulations to Margie Grace of 
Grace Design Associates, Inc., a Santa Barbara-based landscape design and build company, for being honored the top award the International Designer of the Year by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), the leading trade group for landscape design professionals worldwide.
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Posted on : 05-08-2009 | By : Admin
It was 85 degrees yesterday and so muggy that moss is growing on glass gazing balls. But I was digging in the perennial garden because there are areas that need to be fixed.
A dear friend had visited me over the weekend, and it was the first time shed seen my gardens at Poison Ivy Acres. As we walked around the property, she commented on the perennial border on the backside of the house. That was an interesting choice you made, she said, to plant those tall daisies at the front. That wasnt an interesting choice, I replied, that was a mistake!
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Posted on : 04-08-2009 | By : Admin
Susan Cohan describing her field trip to Terrain at Styer’s….her pictures of terrain are amazing!!!!!
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