Garden News

• Pocket Gardens of Portsmouth - 6/15/2008

  The 19th annual Pocket Gardens of Portsmouth tour will turn over a few new leaves this year — just a tweak here and there to keep things a bit more interesting, says event committee chairwoman Roddy Cole (who worked her way up from lemonade...

  
• Exploring the city's parks - 6/15/2008

  Early June, on a spectacular, sunny, warm day, a sole figure lay stretched on a blanket in a quiet, tree-shaded park along the South Mill Pond. Jacqui Daigneault of Portsmouth was stretched out on a colonial-print cloth, in sight of the bronze...

  
• Create a garden for butterflies and bees - 5/29/2008

  A tiny flash of fiery orange caught my eye so I walked over to investigate it. It was a small butterfly. The diminutive American Copper butterfly opened up its wings to soak up the warmth of the sun.

• In the pot: Motherly love - 5/27/2008

  As I write this, I'm feeling good about yesterday, Mother's Day 2008. And what did I do to celebrate? I took care of my plants!

• Tourist season - 5/26/2008

  Summer brings visitors to the Seacoast the way spring showers bring May flowers. Why not enjoy those flowers in June by touring the area’s glorious gardens? Not only will you see beautiful green spaces, you’ll get ideas for your own garden. The...

  
• Beware of too much mulch - 5/26/2008

  Spring is finally here. The days are longer and warmer, daffodils are popping up, and the mulch volcanoes are erupting.

  
• Green in the thumb, not the wallet? - 5/26/2008

  For beginners, especially, a garden center can be overwhelming and bewildering: the colors and dazzle, the crowds, the high spirits, the pie-in-the-sky fantasies, the peer pressure, the devil-may-care impulse buying that can leave a wallet...

  
• How to dress up your windows - 5/26/2008

  When looking to remodel your home and add a little more pizzazz, some people look at high costly renovations and additions. One

  
• Making a rain garden - 5/26/2008

  LEXINGTON, Ky. — Just three years ago, Betty Hall didn’t even know what a rain garden was.
  Now, she is held up as one of several examples of the cool new thing to do in your yard to make it prettier while helping the environment.

• Peek into a private garden - 5/26/2008

  The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program allows public to view garden at Braveboat Harbor Farm in York, Maine.

  
• Maine Sails - 5/26/2008

  PENOBSCOT BAY, Maine — We’ve been stuffed with fresh blueberry pancakes and perfectly crisped bacon, tempted with salads and pork in barbecue sauce and home-baked focaccia, sated with all the steamed lobster and corn-on-the- cob we can manage in a...

  
• Field of Daffodils - 5/26/2008

  May and early June is daffodil time. Although it is a bulb you plant in the fall, you enjoy its charm as a sure sign of spring.

  
• Group working with city to create community garden - 5/25/2008

  PORTSMOUTH — Small lot sizes, shaded yards and rental housing make gardening an impossibility for many Atlantic Heights residents. But that will soon change.

• Farmhouse flavors, east and west - 5/23/2008

  There is no happier time on a farm than when spring brings fresh life and growth to the fields and barns.

  
• In full bloom - 5/21/2008

  At long last, the buds of May are here to greet us. As they do, residents along the Seacoast are getting ready to strut their stuff during a handful of garden tours this year, each promising spectacular showings.

  
• The makings of the Museums of Old York 2008 Decorator Show House - 5/21/2008

  As the Old York Historical Society gears up for its 19th Decorator Show House event, the goings-on behind the scenes are happening fast and furiously.

  
• Bring the Wisteria of Tuscany home - 5/21/2008

  The wisteria vine is one of the most beautiful, with its clusters of lavender or white flowers. It blooms in late May or early June in our area.

  
• The green generation - 5/21/2008

  Is “going green” just a fad? How expensive is it to make a house

  
• The Wentworth-by-the-Sea recalls the Victorian Era - 5/21/2008

  Editor’s note: This is part of a series that asks local architects to discuss their favorite Seacoast-area building, other than any they themselves have designed.

  
• Rain gardens helping purify the environment - 5/21/2008

  It’s amazing what one inch of rain falling on an acre of hard surface will do. As a result, 27,000 gallons of water are sent directly to the storm drain and along the way, the water picks up pollutants and

  
• Mixing it up: Containers in your garden - 5/21/2008

  Spring cleanup is both joyful and frustrating. The joy, of course, comes with the renewal of life and beauty in the reappearance

  
• Summer canna flowers - 5/21/2008

  Perhaps you remember seeing cannas in a median strip along a road. Many cities use them to decorate their streets during the
  summer. The home gardener can use them as well.

  
• Gardeners offer up their tips at workshop - 4/24/2008

  SPRINGVALE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardner volunteers will offer an evening series of gardening workshops for the public from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at their York County office location in Springvale.

• Riding the wave - 4/22/2008

  Ride the Wave ... and it's not about surfing! It's about petunias. This catchy slogan wants you to get excited about a flower that once was unexciting to say the least. Symbolic of the annual garden, petunias got leggy and scraggly as the summer...