Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

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Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

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Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

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Part II – More Experts Share Must-Have Plants

June 9, 2010

As we enter into June, the peak growing season is upon us. So, I turned to two more gardening experts for their “must-have” plants for 2010. Here are the plants they can’t live without this year… In the San Francisco Bay area, Rebecca Sweet knows plenty about plants. The talented landscape designer owns Harmony in the Garden and […]

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Bone Appetit! Pup Cakes for Your Pooch

June 4, 2010

When our loveable mutt Maggie May celebrated her second birthday, we knew she deserved something special. So, we invited all her favorite pups over for a party in the backyard. But that’s not all. We also ordered a professionally baked pup cake by Chef Joanie Veage, owner of RYouBeingServed. Over the years, Chef Joanie has […]

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Eight Easy-To-Grow Edible Flowers

May 17, 2010

Wake up your taste buds with these eight edible flowers that taste as good as they look. Rose photo copyright Isabel Gomes.

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Ten Tips for Trouble-Free Tomatoes

May 13, 2010

Want fewer troubles with your tomatoes? Consider these ten tips: Choose the right location: Tomatoes need at least six hours of direct sunlight a day. Leave plenty of space between plants for good circulation; staking plants also helps. Rotate crops: Many disease spores can live in the soil for years. Don’t grow tomatoes or related plants […]

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Heirloom Tomatoes to Try

May 10, 2010

It’s that time again. A wonderous time of year, celebrated annually here after the last average frost date (around May 10). This is when those juicy tomatoes and other yummy summer vegetables can be planted in my garden (Zone 6b). And over the years, I’ve grown everything from ‘Green Zebra’ and ‘Purple Cherokee’ to ‘Brandywine,’ – often at the […]

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Five Experts Share Their Must-Have Plants

May 5, 2010

It’s early May, and no doubt many gardeners are asking themselves what to grow this year. So, I turned to five experts for advice on some of their favorite plants. These folks are landscape designers, garden bloggers, journalists and ordinary citizens from around the nation. But the one thing they have in common is their […]

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Feng Shui Garden Podcast

April 27, 2010

If you’ve been following my Feng Shui in the Garden series (part one and part two) … then you don’t want to miss my Nest in Style podcast interview with Feng Shui expert Linda Binns. In the podcast, Linda demystifies the ancient art and science of Feng Shui (“fung schway”) and explains how these principles can be applied easily […]

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Feng Shui in the Garden – Part II

April 14, 2010

The ancient art and science of Feng Shui can be applied not only to your home but also to your garden, as revealed in Part I of this post. In fact, the exterior of your home and garden are important ways to create harmony inside the house, according to Feng Shui consultant Linda Binns, who owns […]

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Feng Shui in the Garden – Part I

April 8, 2010

It’s no secret that a beautiful landscape can lift the spirits. But many gardeners are moving beyond just creating a lovely garden, and are applying the ancient principles of Feng Shui to their outdoor spaces as well. Feng Shui – pronounced “fung schway” – is an ancient art and science developed more than 3,000 years ago […]

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The World’s First Grocery Gardening Party

April 5, 2010

Not long after Grocery Gardening hit bookstores in February 2010, I received a congratulatory call from some good friends in California. They wanted to celebrate by hosting a potluck dinner featuring recipes from the book. And since they know I’m a big fan of local foods, they wanted to buy many of the ingredients from their local […]

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