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Helpers nurture seedlings at Rothamsted Research in advance of Markyate plant sale in aid of Hospice of St Francis, May 2013 Spring is here and it's time to get out and about - and if you like nothing more than having a nose around somebody else's glorious garden, there are some dates for your diary on the horizon.

If you're like me, you're counting the days until the first red, ripe tomato appears in the garden or at the farmer's market.

Soil scientists talk about bentonite, illite, montmorillinite, chlorite, kaolinite and vermiculite.

Its imaginative 'sight loss' garden, designed by Darren Hawkes, was created to encourage show visitors and TV viewers to consider the impact of sight loss and included landscaping and planting to represent four specific sight conditions.

Home gardeners making out their shopping list of annuals to plant should beware of a disease that is inflicting the always-popular impatiens, a Purdue Extension plant disease specialist says.

The Swansboro Parks and Recreation Department has been awarded a $3,000 grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina as part of the Nourishing North Carolina initiative.

The Golden Door, in Escondido, California is one of the most exclusive and well known spas in the world.

CIVIC bosses have confirmed that an ash tree which was cut down in Winchester city centre did not have a tree preservation order on it.

Garden designer, Leonie Cornelius from Fivemilebourne, Co. Leitrim will be designing a show garden for the prestigious national gardening show Bloom In The Park.

It's manufactured from the olive-like fruit and seeds of a tropical evergreen tree native to India.

Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.

Shoppers at Habitat for Humanity ReStore were treated to a demonstration on creative container gardening recently sponsored by the Master Gardeners Group of Gaston County.

I approached Mulenga Harangua from behind as he stood in the lot next to the charred hulk of the "Obstruction of Justice House" at Detroit's Heidelberg Project.

Glorious gardens and fabulous flowers are the very essence of summer and you can find them in abundance at Gardening Scotland 2013.

Here is the latest installment of The Hoboken Museum's Secret Garden Tour where Hobokenites and visitors can keep up with the Joneses by touring some of Hoboken's finest private garden spaces Behind Hoboken's brownstones and former factory faA ades is a world of lush gardens and unusual courtyard spaces, as diverse as the city's residents.

The city is gathering public feedback through an online survey - found at guelph.ca/communitygardens - to determine if there are any concerns about the proposed downtown site and a second site proposed in the city's north end at Dakota Park.

Despite the blustery showers green-fingered enthusiasts turned up in their droves to the first national gardening show of the year.

Have you ever noticed how the emerging flower stalk of an agave resembles an asparagus spear? It turns out that both agave and asparagus are in the same botanical family .

About 50 prisoners, their children and staff from the Tardebigge based prison designed and built the out-of-this-world garden for the Royal Horticultural Society Malvern Spring Gardening Show.

Retired Whitmire Community teacher Susan Lawson, who is also a candidate to become a Master Gardener, shared her expertise with fourth-grade students to help prepare them for PASS testing.