Home And Garden
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Haag: Give thanks for plants | Home & Garden
BRITTNAY HAAG Everyone should add plants to their “thankful list” this year. Through photosynthesis, plants create oxygen in our atmosphere, which allows us to breathe fresh air. Also, directly, or indirectly, practically all food comes from plants. There are over 350,000 plant species in the world … we have a lot to be thankful for Benefit Group. As a horticulturist, you can imagine I love and appreciate plants. My career revolves around plants, but my life has always revolved around plants too. Growing up on a Central Illinois farm, my parents instilled a love of plants and growing things at an early age. Many plants deserve my thanks this year.…
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E-commerce roll-up startup, 10club, acquires three D2C home-gardening brands
E-commerce roll-up participant, 10club, has acquired a few immediate to customer (D2C) gardening brand names, Kraftseeds, Gate Back garden and Kriti Kalash. The makes specialise in seeds, soil, flower bulbs, manure, planters, equipment and each and every other form of products a purchaser might have to have for their household gardening demands. The corporation is also wanting to acquire six much more D2C models amid a heightened competitors in the Thrasio-model startup space with Mensa makes presently coming into the unicorn club in 6 months. The startup said that the dwelling gardening class has witnessed an unprecedented spike throughout the pandemic, as men and women stayed dwelling and looked for strategies…
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Bronzes, burgundies, fall finery highlight this year’s Thanksgiving flowers | Home & Garden
Denise Golfis, owner of Denise Floral Designs in St. John, incorporates pumpkins, wheat and dried flowers in her fall creations. Florist Denise Golfis notes that her older clients prefer traditional arrangements while her younger ones want something more rustic. Jen Steliga, owner of Monarch Florist and Events, highlights burgundy and bronze flowers with fuscia and orange to make the arrangement pop. “We like to do asymmetric arrangements, which are pretty and interesting,” says florist…
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Barany in the Garden: Perennials in the cold | Explore Yakima
It’s funny how a person day you can be out gardening in your favored pair of shorts, and just a number of days later you are pulling on excess layers of polar fleece. Even however I do my best to mentally put together, I’m hardly ever really prepared to see a further gardening yr appear to an finish. Over the final several weeks, I have discovered myself checking the extended weather forecast various occasions each day, exploring for borrowed time. But I’ve been a gardener long more than enough to know that Jack Frost will finally win the race. If all I grew have been domestically native plants, I’d have…
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Ballwin split-level combines midcentury aesthetic with artist’s works | Home & Garden
The living room features a mix of family mementos, vintage and modern furniture along with illustrations, paintings and art by Janet. The midcentury bookcase prized by Janet’s parents acts as a divider between the main living space and the hallway to the bedroom. One of Murphy the pug’s comfy beds stays in the living room. An illustration of a magneto, created by Janet, hangs in the living room. A magneto was used in engines. It is a small electric generator containing a permanent magnet that provide high-voltage pulses, sparks, in the ignition…
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YARD AND GARDEN: Interested in becoming a Master Gardener? | Home & Garden
Interested in becoming a Master Gardener? This week, Kathy Hummel has the information to help you realize that you might already be qualified and not realize it. When I retired from teaching 23 years ago, I had a list of activities I wanted to do: writing sparkling children’s books that would have all the publishers clamoring to represent me, taking piano lessons, finishing the cross stitch I’d started 18 years ago, organizing and labeling drawers full of photographs, volunteering at Lincoln Log Cabin and 5 Mile House and taking the Master Gardener training. Hey four out of seven ain’t too bad… YARD AND GARDEN: Canada Geese can be real pests!…