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Home and Garden Roundup for Week of 11/17/2008
A weekly roundup of the top stories from the Home & Garden sections of leading newspapers around the country.
The Los Angeles Times Home & Garden: Architect Grant Kirkpatrick's Manhattan Beach home blurs the line between indoors and out.
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Tucked on a packed street in Manhattan Beach, the home of Shaya and Grant Kirkpatrick is a smartly designed retreat that alternates between openness and enclosure — sunny and expansive spaces that connect to the outdoors, and more cozy, walled-in rooms that provide plenty of privacy.
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Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
The Seattle Post Intelligencer NW Gardens: Winter planter gardens shine, too
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As autumn rain rinses the color from the garden, and summer's bright annuals fade to mush, it's time to give tired container plantings a new look. When the tawny golds and oranges of fall start to lose their shine, replace them with the rich reds and burgundies that remind us of warmth and good cheer.
If your plantings are truly worn out, empty the pots completely, tossing the exhausted soil into the compost. Refill your containers with a compost-based potting soil like that from Whitney Farms, which gently nourishes plants right through the winter without forcing excess growth as fertilizer would.
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The Houston Chronicle: Try some untraditional holiday plants
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Although poinsettias of all stripes and colors remain the best-selling holiday plant of choice, there are a number of good, winter-blooming options. Here are some elegant and carefree holiday houseplant suggestions:
— Amaryllis: These bulbous plants bear one or more lily-like flowers on a single, strong stem. They come in different sizes and colors and usually are sold in 6- or 8-inch pots. They also make gorgeous holiday bouquets when freshly cut. They are long-lasting and low maintenance. Some selections are fragrant.
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Amaryllis -- AP/Houston Chronicle
The Miami Herald Gardening: Scarlet vine boldly climbs to the top
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There aren't many vines that can compare with this scarlet beauty for sheer voluptuous shape and searing color. A vine in the bean family, this New Guinea native can be just as aggressive as the jade vine, Strongylodon macrobotrys, whose flower shapes these resemble. The hanging bunches of flowers, called racemes, are not as long as those on the jade, but that hardly matters. They will hang beneath the arbor to your great delight.
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Mucuna Vine -- Georgia Tasker/Miami Herald
The New York Times: Minimalist Bouquets in Midtown
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Ovando, the Greenwich Village florist that does the flowers for the five W Hotels in Manhattan, is opening a pop-up shop at W New York-The Court in Midtown on Nov. 20. The minimalist designs may “look simple, but they’re not,” said Sandra de Ovando, the shop’s owner and head designer.
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Ovando bouqet -- The New York Times
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