Posts by home-and-garden

02 Nov

Botanical Gardens

Aldridge botanical gardens

• May 7, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Main: 205-682-8019 FAX: 205-682-8085 Visit Website 3530 Lorna Rd. Hoover, AL Description Aldridge Botanical Gardens is a beautiful 30-acre woodland garden showcasing hydrangeas and native plants. Enjoy a half-mile walk around the six-acre lake, have a picnic or att...

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30 Oct

Vegetable Garden

Design for Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

‘Keep the faith and keep on digging, knowing that you will eventually succeed.’ Photograph: Lucy Chamberlain Fancy building the vegetable garden of your dreams from a weed-strewn wasteland? Lucy Chamberlain shares her sage advice For culinary gardeners, creating yo...

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15 Oct

Front Garden

Front yard garden Design Pictures

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Recently, the story of Garden Design magazine was covered by Chantal Gordon at the Horticult. We thought it reflected our goals and mission at Garden Design perfectly, so we wanted to share it with you. The new Garden Design magazine is so highly, gloriously visual...

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12 Oct

Vegetable Garden

Fertilizing Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

As garden vegetables grow, they undergo an intensive process that strips nutrients from the soil. Adding fertilizer keeps soil in optimum shape to feed your garden. Choosing the right type of fertilizer and adding the right amount depends on the soil and the plants...

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06 Oct

Garden

Hilton Garden Inn Columbus Airport

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Located ¼ mile from the Port Columbus International Airport Complimentary business shuttle within a 5-mile radius and 24-hour airport shuttle Dining at the Garden Grille & Bar for breakfast or dinner Complimentary 24-hour fitness center and WiFi An Airport Ho...

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24 Sep

Botanical Gardens

Chapel Hill botanical gardens

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

100 Old Mason Farm Rd Chapel Hill, NC 27517 (919) 962-0522 This place was perfect for my husband's graduation picnic. It was super close to campus but uncrowded and pretty. I wish we would have had more time to explore. It was great with loads of nieces and nephew...

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24 Sep

Garden

Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Centrally located hotel in Hollywood near Disney Studios Convenient to Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Chinese Theater and Universal Studios 24-hour Pavilion Pantry® Market, Pavilion Lounge and Room Service Complimentary internet access and b...

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31 Aug

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Better Homes and Gardens gardener

• May 11, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Even though my grandfather David Augustus passed away when I was three weeks shy of my sixth birthday, I’ve always felt a particularly strong affinity with him—and not just because I’m the only one of the four boys in my family to be given his surname as my middle ...

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31 Aug

Vegetable Garden

Designing Drip Irrigation system Vegetable Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Soaker hoses’ slow, steady drip ensures that almost no water is lost to surface runoff or evaporation—all of that water goes to your plants. It also means very few nutrients leach down beyond the reach of plant roots. Furthermore, since soaker hoses deliver water d...

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16 Aug

Botanical Gardens

Botanical gardens denver

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

It’s always wise to keep expectations in check when talking about an exhibit as important and unexpected as “Calder: Monumental, ” this summer’s outdoor show at the Denver Botanic Gardens. On paper, it is the kind of event you rush out to see: Eight, large-scale wo...

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01 Aug

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Home Depot Landscaping Stone

• May 11, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Why You Shouldn’t Buy Crushed Stone at Lowes & Home Depot If you’re in need of crushed stone for a drainage project, for filler or for a driveway, you may be thinking about heading off to your local Home Depot or Lowes. Large chain retailers like these are well...

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01 Aug

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Better Homes and Gardens Cushions Replacement

• May 11, 2022
• By home-and-garden

By: Danny Lipford Better Homes and Gardens has teamed up with Green Works to sponsor the Living Green Tour. This fifteen city traveling exhibit is designed to raise awareness of green living and showcase environmentally friendly products and ideas. Here are a few o...

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20 Jul

Garden

Hilton Garden Inn Denver Cherry Creek

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

The brand new Hilton Garden Inn Denver/Cherry Creek is centrally located on South Colorado Boulevard in the stylish shopping and business district of Denver’s Cherry Creek. The hotel is 1.5 miles North of I-25 with quick access to the Cherry Creek Shopping Mall, an...

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11 Jul

Garden

CVS Spring Garden

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

401SPRING Garden St Philadelphia, PA 19123 The pharmacy is very helpful my doctor accidentally sent the wrong prescription and they worked with to quickly fill the correct one. Great customer service! Horrible experience. I went to this cvs to return an order I ha...

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02 Jul

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Better Homes and Gardens Cooking

• May 11, 2022
• By home-and-garden

The fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling, tried-and-true resource for generations of cooks Since 1930, home cooks have turned to Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book for guidance in the kitchen. This new edition includes more than 1, 200 recipes,...

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11 Jun

Front Garden

Designing a front garden

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

2. Exploit The Slope Homes on steep view lots can lack a powerful entry if the designer is not up to the challenge. All too often this kind of extreme slope is treated as an erosion control application, with ordinary highway planting schemes and hydroseeding. Here ...

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08 Jun

Flower Garden

Flowers garden Plants

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Get ready to grow! Follow these simple instructions and you’ll be building bouquets all summer. There’s more to planting a flower garden than digging a hole and adding plants, but it’s still easy enough that anyone can have their own bountiful bed of blooms to ador...

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05 Jun

Garden

Gardening in Small Spaces

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

If your green thumb is a little, um, brown, a low-maintenance plant, like echeveria shown here, is a safe bet. Thanks to their ability to store water in their fleshy leaves, stems and roots, succulents require very little watering — but they do require plenty of su...

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27 May

Winter Garden

Ace Hardware Winter Garden

• May 5, 2022
• By home-and-garden

There are several advantages to mulching your garden and landscaping. Mulch can help reduce weeds, moderate soil temperature and retain moisture during dry seasons, as well as “finish” the look of your outdoor landscaping. Different types of garden mulch can help i...

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15 May

Garden

Garden Gourmet Market

• May 7, 2022
• By home-and-garden

5665 Broadway Riverdale, NY 10463 (718) 796-4209 I've lived in NYC for more than a decade, and have discovered far too few grocery stores that are worthy of getting together with a few friends and splitting the cost of a rental car to go shopping. Not only is this...

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09 May

Flower Garden

Flower garden Design Plan

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

The garden design plan outlined here features plants with white flowers and foliage that will stand out in a partial shade garden. A nice seasonal intro to this white perennial shade garden would be drifts of white tulips. Tulip 'Albion Star', 'Best White', 'Evita'...

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30 Apr

Flower Garden

Flower gardens Diving

• May 7, 2022
• By home-and-garden

This is an alphabetical listing of known dive charters that visit the sanctuary. If you wish to book a trip, please contact one of the charter operators for details about their booking procedures. Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary does not endorse any p...

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24 Apr

Front Garden

Contemporary front garden Design ideas

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Your small patio garden design can contain many charming and stylish details and contrasts, inspired by backyard or front yard landscaping ideas, developed by professionals. Hardwood and concrete, sand and gravel interact with green plants and flowers, creating bea...

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18 Apr

Front Garden

Front garden Design Plans

• May 10, 2022
• By home-and-garden

Specific rules apply for householders wanting to pave over their front gardens. You will not need planning permission if a new or replacement driveway of any size uses permeable (or porous) surfacing which allows water to drain through, such as gravel, permeable co...

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