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The Garden Life: Sales at nurseries heat up when temperature cools
When ornamental trees, shrubs and perennials go on sale in September and October, I feel like a kid in a toy store. I want them all. Autumn signals the need for nurseries and garden centers to reduce their on-hand stock. Fall is a good time to add hardy plants to the garden and is a great time of year to shop for bargains.
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Patchwork: A fiesta of color in the garden and the kitchen
The vegetable garden, once orderly and under control, has gone wild. Sorrel’s yellow flowers, and a rainbow of yellow, red and pink chard line the path to my studio. Blue bachelor buttons have folded in with the blue-green fronds of lacinato kale and the emerald green of ripening peppers.
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Wavecrest lights to keep shining on Christmas
GRUMPY neighbours in a popular coastal town will have to put up with bright Christmas lights, decorations and crowds of noisy tourists in their area again this year after a full bench of the Grahamstown High Court ruled that the dazzling display did not constitute a neighbourhood “nuisance”.
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Tamara Browning: Art in the Garden nets $5,000
Art in the Garden, a fundraising event held June 26 for Lincoln Memorial Garden, netted $5,000.
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How innovation killed the lights
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent bulbs in U.S. will close this month. Incandescent light bulb - Light - Shopping - Home and Garden - Bulbs
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Automate Your Home With Four Easy Projects
Teach your PC and smartphone to turn on your lights during midnight bathroom breaks, lock your doors, wake you up (with coffee!), and more. Smartphone - Personal computer - Business - Construction and Maintenance - IPhone
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Broadway lights are calling in recreation trips
THE CHATHAMS – Love the footlights and greasepaint of the Great White Way? Then Chatham Recreation has just the ticket.
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Calendar of Events
South Burnaby Garden Club hosts its annual Fall Fair on the second floor of the Bonsor Recreation Centre. Exhibits, raffle tickets, bake and produce sale, suet and feeder demonstrations. Info: Call Dan at 604-526-4647.
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Cost-cutting councils plan to switch off street lights
Switching off street lights to save money could lead to more crashes and more crime, the AA said today. Related Stories Brit dies in holiday balcony plunge Man held over wife's chateau death Baby's body discovered in garden One in three 'drinks to get drunk' Dead baby found in garden
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Woolly coffins on display in Prince's garden
People should be buried in woollen coffins because it is a more environmentally friendly way of being laid to rest, the Prince of Wales has suggested, as part of a new campaign to promote green living.
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