How We Met: Patrick Holden & Monty Don - The Independent

Down to earth: 16 years after discovering a mutual interest in organics, Don (right) and Holden are now working together to spread the word Patrick Holden CBE 57 has been director of the Soil Association, which campaigns for organic food and farming ...

Garden-free terraced houses win top architecture prize - Times Online

A modern-day Coronation Street of terraced houses without gardens last night won the Stirling prize, Britain?s premier architectural award. The Accordia estate, built in Cambridge, features square roofs and tall chimney stacks. It includes houses ...

Gardening: Bring back the bonfire - Daily Telegraph

The autumn bonfire, like the first barbecue of summer, is a religious affair. It is dominated by the male of the species, requires ritual lighting, demands specialist robes (gardening hat and gloves) and produces a burnt offering of ashes. Up in ...

Japanese Garden getting a makeover - Oakland Tribune

Next Sunday, a group of dedicated volunteers are celebrating the kickoff of a restoration project in Lakeside Park's Japanese Garden, and the public is invited. Things get under way at noon, with a demonstration of Japanese Daiku Carpentry, followed ...

Gardening seminars offered this month - Palestine Herald-Press

PALESTINE ? The Anderson County Master Gardener Association is sponsoring two Saturday fall gardening seminars free to the public on Oct. 11 and Oct. 18, ?Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants? and ?Plant Propagation,? respectively. Both ...