A weekly roundup of the top stories from the Home & Garden sections of leading newspapers around the country.
The
Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section is running a piece called "
Breathing a little freer indoors" about improving the quality of life by improving the quality of indoor air (kind of makes you want to have a LOT more house plants):
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"Over 60% of the air you breathe in any closed space is off-gassing from surface materials," says Ellen Strickland, owner of Livingreen stores in Culver City and Santa Barbara that sell environmentally friendly home products. "It's an accumulative effect of everything that's on the walls, furniture, counter surfaces, your clothes, the curtains -- anything that's brought into that space."
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In the
New York Times Home & Garden there's an article titled:
"Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow":
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EVER since I looked out over the meadow of sedums blooming two summers ago on a green roof in Greenwich Village — one of the first residential green-roof projects in the city — I have been thinking about the possible uses of these drought-tolerant, low-maintenance plants.
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The
Miami Herald Home and Design has an article on
growing bitterbush, an endangered member of Florida's coastal hammock community.
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Ken Cook, at Plant Creations nursery in Homestead, which carries bitterbush, says the small trees are happiest when part of a crowd. The Miami Blue chapter of the North American Butterfly Association says the Dina Yellow butterfly uses bitterbush as its host plant, and it may be extending its range to the north as butterfly gardeners include bitterbush in their gardens.
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The
Seattle Post Intelligencer NW Gardens has a story on
finding truffles:
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Actually, setting the scene here, instead of in France or Italy and taking the piggy out of the picture could make realizing my dream more likely. It turns out North America, and specifically the Pacific Northwest, has delicious truffles and people who know how to find them.
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The
Dallas Morning News Home/Gardening has an article on
protecting your plants from the frost:
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While houseplants that have been sunning outside obviously can't stand freezes, gardening experts say you should avoid subjecting houseplants to temperatures below 45 F. If you haven't brought your plants inside yet, move them now. Before you bring a plant indoors, examine it for pests such as scale, mealybugs and spider mites. If you find any, you can use one of the chemicals that any garden center carries to eradicate them.
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11-18-2007, 02:15 PM
Home and Garden Roundup for Week of 11/18/2007
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