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Look Who’s Waiting for the Veggies to Sprout!

Look Who’s Waiting for the Veggies to Sprout!

My raised vegetable bed is in germination and growing mode with all my favorite lettuces, heirloom tomatoes, squashes, sugar snap peas, curry, chayote and more! Next to gardening, I love to cook and I can’t wait to see the first…

15 Comments / 437 View / April 21, 2008

Audience listening to Shirley Bovshow at Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival

Epcot’s Savy Horticultural Tech Saved Me From Embarrassment!

Audience listening to Shirley Bovshow at Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival

Chris Hassell: Epcot landscape architect and tech savvy dude   I learned  a lesson about asking for help while I was in Florida last weekend at the Walt Disney Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival. I was asked to speak at…

5 Comments / 223 View / April 13, 2008

Shirley Bovshow on HGTV’s “25-Biggest Landsaping Mistakes, 4/13/08

Shirley Bovshow on HGTV’s “25-Biggest Landsaping Mistakes, 4/13/08

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Landscape designer and television host, Shirley Bovshow Are you guilty of committing crimes against your landscape? Find out what not to do before you dig into the dirt and your pocketbook!  Watch landscape designer Shirley Bovshow weigh in along with…

3 Comments / 294 View / April 12, 2008

Creative Mulch Options: Wine Corks?

Creative Mulch Options: Wine Corks?

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One of the segments  included in my "10-Ways to Incorporate Art In Your Garden" presentation at the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival was on creative mulch ideas. Gardeners  know that top dressing garden soil with mulch is an effective…

10 Comments / 3124 View / April 8, 2008

Garden Blog Awards-Who Will Get Your Vote?

Garden Blog Awards-Who Will Get Your Vote?

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Who will you nominate for the Mouse and Trowel Award? Garden blogging is here to stay and many garden  blog readers and writers throughout the earth divide their time between digging in their  plots and digging for great posts. It’s that time of…

10 Comments / 114 View / March 26, 2008

Garden Furniture as “Art”

Garden Furniture as “Art”

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The potting area in this yard designed by Shirley Bovshow, evokes the feeling of a French flower market.   I'm busy preparing for my presentation on "Art in the Garden" for  Epcot's International Flower and Garden Festival   next week, April…

8 Comments / 1993 View / March 25, 2008

“Neat” Edible Front Yard: Knot Garden!

“Neat” Edible Front Yard: Knot Garden!

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Edible gardens in your front yard can be a scary thought but not when you plan a structured design like a “Knot Garden!”

12 Comments / 1766 View / March 20, 2008

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