Now there’s a use — it’s a shame I already sent mine off to e-cycling.
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More shots of our DIY Floppy Disk Planters. So fun!
10 Mistakes New Gardeners Make
Caring for plants can be overwhelming. It’s easy for new gardeners to get confused, but we’re here to help you get a green thumbs up when it comes to your garden this year. Avoid some of the most common mistakes that new gardeners make - click here to read more.
Notes to self, for replanting the boxes on our back porch.
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Butchart Gardens near Victoria, British Columbia. Around 100 years ago Jennie Butchart, the wife of a Portland Cement magnate, decided to turn their exhausted quarry pit into a sunken garden. The original garden was completed in 1921 Today, over a million bedding plants a year are used throughout the gardens and over a million visitors visit Butchart Gardens annually.
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Chart: America’s Gardens Are Warmer in 2012
One way to tell that the world (or at this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S. The Department of Agriculture released an update to the 1990 version of its “Plant Hardiness Zone Map,” which reveals much milder winters than in the past. Read more.
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Chart: America’s Gardens Are Warmer in 2012
One way to tell that the world (or at this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S. The Department of Agriculture released an update to the 1990 version of its “Plant Hardiness Zone Map,” which reveals much milder winters than in the past. Read more.
[Image: USDA]
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Mushrooms + 40,000 Discarded Books = 1 Garden of Knowledge
With electronic reader gadgets like the Kindle changing the way we read, could good ol’ fashioned books become an endangered species of sorts? Either way, there’s still nothing quite like the living and tactile experience of seeing, touching and smelling the pages of real book. “Long live the book,” we say — a sentiment that’s reflected in this amazing library garden and art installation made of 40,000 books, a temporary reader’s paradise nestled in a beautiful natural setting in Quebec’s picturesque Lower St. Lawrence region. Sandwiched within and between the reclaimed and decomposing books are several edible species of mushrooms like oyster and winecap, an intervention that highlights the living, ephemeral and cyclic character of these artifacts.
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