Home and Garden
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Want your garden to thrive? Think localMay 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Wouldn't it be nice if your landscape thrived instead of just survived next season? If you follow Richard Liberto's example, it could happen. But first, you'll have to f...
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New interest in vegetable gardens taking rootMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Vegetable gardens are cool again. In a survey by the Mailorder Gardening Association, its members reported a significant increase in the sale of vegetable seeds this sp...
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Colorful bags from desert peoplesMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Living in a metropolitan area certainly has its perks. For example, where else could you drop into a shop and see a free exhibit of antique bags created by nomads and pe...
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Merchandise Mart offers DreamRoomsMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - When you spend thousands of dollars to buy a piece of furniture, you want to keep it for a while -- maybe generations. DreamRooms decorated with furniture and other mate...
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Outdoors blossom during MayMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - In May, home landscapes are fully alive. A symphony of green leaves reinvigorates the landscape, and spring-flowering trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals reward gard...
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Young sprouts learn their garden lessons wellMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Cultivating a garden at a school sounds like it would be pretty easy. You've got the kids; all you need is some dirt and seeds, right? Anyone who believes this probably ...
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Plant outside the box to keep your garden freshMay 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Plant your angelonia in groups or drifts. Calibrachoa is a trailing plant available in a multitude of colors. When we plant flowers year after year, we develop a group o...
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Is organic always best?Apr 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Jeff Gillman believes in organic gardening. But he also believes that not everything organic is safe. While he doesn't like pesticides, there are times he thinks chemica...
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Garden eventsApr 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Garden clubs • The Hoffman Estates Garden Club hosts its annual plant exchange at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Road, ...
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Colorful columbines always a garden favoriteApr 25, 2008 11:00 pm - When shopping for perennials in springtime, it's hard to resist a pot filled with blooming columbines. The unique and showy spurred flowers nodding above dainty clumps o...