Qhere are so many reasons to love evergreen plants, from their unique ability to create all-year-round screening, to how they generously provide a green canopy without the need to sweep it up by the bag-load every autumn. With scientific research into the health benefits of plants even suggesting that the color green itself may be – at least in part – responsible for their therapeutic effect, these plants that are perpetually in leaf are probably some of the most effective at enhancing our wellbeing. If you, however, have been putting off evergreens because you feel they lack autumn colour, these four have-your-cake-and-eat-it plants might just change your mind.

The heavenly bamboo Nandina domestica creates an airy canopy of elegantly divided leaves on evergreen shrubs around 2m tall. With new growth that was flushed with burgundy before maturing to dark green come the autumn, the red and purple shades return

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At the time of the article, it was unclear what might have caused the collapse. But according to officials with the Army Corps of Engineers, the governing body who manages Lake Georgetown in which Crockett Garden resides, the frigid temperatures in all likelihood caused the incident.

“While it is a unique location on our trail this area is a natural feature and I can only assume due to the frigid temperatures we experienced is what caused a section to separate. Like all natural features, mother nature is in control,” the organization told KXAN in a statement. “The area is part of the wildlife area around the lake and will continue to be open to the

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Pillow fight! Playful fox cubs are caught grappling over cushions left for them to sleep on in the garden

  • The two cubs were chasing each other when they were caught on camera
  • Dora Nightingale, from Worthing, West Sussex, filmed the adorable footage
  • She was contacted by a resident ‘annoyed with fox cubs chewing her plants’

A pair of playful fox cubs were captured grappling over a cushion left for them to sleep on while exploring a garden in West Sussex.

The two cubs were chasing each other and practicing their best prey kicks when they were caught on camera by wildlife activist Dora Nightingale.

Filmmaker Ms Nightingale from Worthing, West Sussex, filmed the adorable footage after being contacted by a resident who wanted advice on how to

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SPARTANBURG, SC (WSPA)-When you think of airports, you probably think of baggage claims or crowds of people. But if you’ve been to the Spartanburg Memorial Airport recently, you’ll think of the garden.

“We’re looking at a way of providing, you know, some type of food back to the community from the airport,” said Terry Connorton, Director of the Spartanburg Downtown Memorial Airport.

After acknowledging the presence of food insecurity in Spartanburg, Connorton said he spoke to the Hub City Farmers Market. They said despite an airport sounding like an unlikely place for a successful garden, it’s actually the opposite.

“This form of regenerative agriculture will take the carbon emissions that’s happening all around us at the airport due to the aircraft, and it’ll sequester the carbon in the soil,” said Dori Burgess, executive director of Hub City Farmers Market. “So it’s a form of taking these carbon emissions and using

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THIS YEAR’S garden-party game (which I just made up) is a mashup of plants, design and color theory. Each season, I’ll share a color recipe for Pacific Northwest gardens: striking 1-2-3 plant combinations for landscaping your plot or composing your pot. Whether you prefer following a recipe step by step or approach each formula as just a starting place, I hope you’ll find some delicious combinations. Let’s dig in.

it’s winter. It’s dark. It’s cold. Instinctively, we humans draw close to warmth and flames. Kindle a botanical bonfire with this trio of hardy shrubs that ignite the winter landscape for months on end.

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1. Of all the twig dogwoods, ‘Midwinter Fire’ (Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’) is especially showy, with thickets of golden stems that gradually shift to orange and deep crimson toward the tip of the plant over the course of winter.

Growing

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Happy New Years. It’s time to start gently working and planning the plot. Just because it’s darker, maybe damp or cold, doesn’t mean there isn’t garden stuff to do.

First, colonize a few windowsills at home. Sow sweetpeas in a sunnier spot inside. They’ll appreciate the warmth. We have the Higgledy Gardens selection quietly thrumming, near ready to go.

Sow spinach and hardier salad seed in trays on sills. Though first negotiate this with any significant others. Order your early potatoes to start chitting them. I still use egg trays on a bookshelf in the boy’s old bedroom.

Check online and in local papers for Potato Days/potato breeders near you. Look, too, for upcoming Seedy Sundays or other neighborhood swaps.

These first-Sunday-in-the-month columns have always relied on advice gleaned from experience, books and

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Seaweed compost supplements and “manure” made from beans will be among the top garden trends of 2023, the Royal Horticultural Society has predicted.

As regenerative gardening becomes fashionable, experts in the horticulture charity’s gardens have been demonstrating how to tend beautiful plants in a more eco-friendly way, protecting the soil rather than extracting it from it.

People will also learn how to attract creatures previously malignant as pests into their garden for the unexpected benefits they can bring. The RHS said its garden advice service was receiving more inquiries about encouraging a greater abundance of wildlife to their gardens to fend off more troublesome species. These include wasps that predate on caterpillars, slugs that can help recycle decaying material, and aphids that provide food for ladybirds, and lacewing and hoverfly larvae.

Dr Mark Gush, head of environmental horticulture at the RHS, said: “Regenerative gardening is all about improving the environmental

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‘Pride Night at Winter Garden a Glow’ at The Idaho Botanical Garden, is billed as a family-friendly event.

BOISE, Idaho — Pride Night at Winter Garden a Glow at The Idaho Botanical Garden, is billed as a family-friendly event that is put on by Boise Pride and features the Boise Gay Men’s Chorus and Boise Women’s Chorus, free holiday snacks, photos with memorable holiday characters and a variety of other festivities.

However, on social media, there’s been a call from certain groups like the Idaho Liberty Dogs, that bill themselves as, “a grassroots group of citizens standing up for our constitutional rights and freedoms,” to protest the event. Their followers have been calling the Garden and some comments on their Facebook page calling for arming themselves and shaming any parent who brings their child to the event.

“Call the Idaho Botanical Garden and demand them to cancel Drag Santa

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High lettuce costs are coming for Olive Garden’s never-ending salad.

Darden Restaurants, which owns the casual dining chain in addition to Longhorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen and other restaurant chains, said that a spike in wholesale lettuce prices led to a big hit in the quarter ending November 27.

“It was, call it, $4 million to $5 million impact in the quarter,” Darden CFO Raj Vennam said during a Friday analyst call discussing financial results. “That’s meaningful.”

He pointed to “poor growing conditions and weather-related events” as reasons for the price increase.

Extreme weather like droughts and flooding, in addition to produce and animal diseases, has squeezed supply and led to wild price swings across food items this year.

Olive Garden's parent company said high lettuce costs had a $4-$5 million impact in the quarter ending November 27.

The price of eggs, for example, has been soaring because of a deadly avian flu that’s harmful to egg-laying hens. In Florida, a disease called citrus greening

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This holiday season, more than 500,000 lights brighten Longwood Gardens.

friday, the lights were named the best in the country.

The Kennett Square site won the best botanical garden holiday lights in USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice contest. This is the fifth year the garden won the contest.

Longwood Gardens competed against nine other gardens with holiday lights, from Gardens Aglow at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens to River of Lights at the ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A panel of experts and 10 Best editors picked the nominees. The top 10 were selected by public voting.

Longwood Gardens’ holiday lights have a botanical splendor theme. They’ll be up through Jan. 8. Here’s a look at the lights plus a quiz.


Test your knowledge of Longwood Gardens Christmas, the best botanical lights in the country [quiz, video]

Longwood Gardens celebrates the holidays with lots and lots of lights: lining a tunnel, wrapping tall trees, floating in the water and dangling overhead.

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