LAKEPORT, Calif. – In Courthouse Square in downtown Lakeport, next to the Veterans’ Building, there is a flower garden with the Blue Star Memorial sign.Members of the Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club provide and plant these flowers.Thanks to the city of Lakeport, which makes sure the flowers are watered.Nora Gerrard and Rena Clifton [...]
August can be a tough month in the flower garden. Generally it’s hot and dry. Even the annual flowers that are supposed to bloom like the Energizer Bunny are tired and moody. I pulled some muscles in my back (foolishly moving big stones as if I were 25 instead of 65) so the weeds in [...]
It’s a friendship that started over a classic but dead Jaguar. Claudia Gendron and her husband had just driven it from Seattle to Spokane to deliver it to Julie Nesbitt and her husband on Five Mile Prairie. Within a block of the Nesbitts’ house, the car died. The husbands rebuilt the car and Julie and [...]
There’s always somebody doing something at Buffalo Lake. In fact, most families are doing several things all at once: dad fishing from the dock, mom weeding in the public flower garden while their teenager rolls around in the skateboard park and the youngest plays on the swing set.When Buffalo city officials set out in the [...]
Eating fresh food straight from the backyard garden is somewhata novelty in the Racine area, but at least one local organizationwould like to change that.That’s why Eat Right Racine is hosting the area’s firstVegetable Garden Tour on Aug. 13.The tour, similar to flower garden tours that are held annuallyhere, will feature eight private vegetable gardens, [...]
The daylily’s beautiful bloom only lasts a day before it withersin the evening.Chris Barry keeps a patch of daylilies in her garden as a symbolof how briefly something beautiful can stay before it goes away.Her son, Cullan, like this flower, blossomed in vibrant beauty, butthen went away much too soon.It was only in May when [...]
In Samara, work began on a comprehensive landscaping adjacent to residential buildings: a practical phase started city contest “The court, in which we live,” the correspondent BakuToday-VolgaInform in the management of information and intelligence the administration of Samara. The installation of playgrounds and sports fields, green spaces, the restoration of lighting will be sent at [...]
In contrast to the tidy, conservative landscaping of most public buildings, the perennial garden at the Weymouth Teen Center, which is also home to the recreation department and the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), projects a casual, exuberant spirit of youth, with flowers of different varieties and colors mixed throughout.”The garden was started [...]
Eating fresh food straight from the backyard garden is somewhata novelty in the Racine area, but at least one local organizationwould like to change that.That’s why Eat Right Racine is hosting the area’s first VegetableGarden Tour on Aug. 13.The tour, similar to flower garden tours that are held annuallyhere, will feature eight private vegetable gardens, [...]
Snakes are nocturnal this time of year. They mainly come out at night when it’s cooler. It’s also the time of year snakes are giving birth to their young, and your flower garden might be the perfect nursery.While some snakes give birth to live young, other’s like a corn snake, lay eggs. And the mulch [...]
