Master Gardeners' annual tour offers a bounty of ideasInitially, the owner envisioned a lovely English garden full of foxglove and delphiniums, but soon discovered that this type of garden required too much labor and water. After installing a raised bed however, the owner became hooked on vegetable and more »
The design is simple and long lasting. So here's how to build a 4' x 12' by about 12” high raised-bed garden: 2 yards of raised bed planting soil. Some compost farms have a raised bed mix comprised of screened compost mixed with sand, peat moss,
Collect rainwater — The storage shed at Fletcher Allen Health Care's Garden Pavilion was designed by H. Keith Wagner Partnership to channel water into a rainbarrel for garden use. • Build a bed — Raised beds give structure to edible gardens. and more »
Enthusiasm grows for Central School's 'hoop house' gardenIncluded in the design is a hoop house — a raised-bed garden area that sports rounded (hoop) walls covered with layers of plastic for growing vegetables year-round. Next week, seedlings grown earlier in the year will be placed there to continue and more »
When Aruba was designing its flag in the 1970s, Ms. Bollinger was asked to participate in the selection of a meaningful and appropriate design. Hundreds of designs came pouring in, and Ms. Bollinger helped to combine the best features among them,