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Azalea City

Have you been enjoying the wonderful azalea color-splash this spring? Takoma Park and Silver Spring are awash in pink, red, white, and purple blooms. A certain Washington Post garden columnist calls them over-used and garish, but we cannot get enough …

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Lion topiary entry at the 2013 Philadelphia Flower Show.

GARDENING GODDESS: March . . . in like a lion

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ March is one of the cruelest months for us Mid-Atlantic gardeners. Tantalizing us with signs of spring in the

GARDENING GODDESS: Upcoming LOCAL Gardening Events

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Sat, Jan 26, 8th Annual Seed Exchange, 12:30 - 4 pm, Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, MD Washington Gardener Magazine hosts its 8th Annual

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GARDENING GODDESS: Takoma Horticultural Club Adds Green to the City

GARDENING GODDESS: • By Kathy Jentz Several gardens and groups in the Takoma Park, MD, Silver Spring, MD, and the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, DC, are a

Create Tiny Holiday Centerpieces

Create Tiny Holiday Centerpieces Wednesday, December 12th, 7pm-9:30pm Heffner Park, 31 Oswego Ave, Takoma Park, MD Open to the Public, RSVP requested (see below) The Takoma Hort Club is trying out something

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Garden Talks ~ November 2012

Winter Garden Prep Talk and Bulb Sale Hosted by the Takoma Hort Club (www.takomahort.org) Wednesday Nov. 14 in the Azalea Room at the Takoma Park Community Center 7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD

Washington Gardener Magazine 5th Annual Tomato Taste

‘Sun Sugar’ Tastiest Tomato in Silver Spring

More than 200 tomato fans came to the Washington Gardener Magazine 5th Annual Tomato Taste at the FreshFarm Markets downtown Silver Spring location on Saturday, August 25. They

Holy Cross Healing Garden Gets Spring Flowers and Summer Color

[caption id="attachment_19286" align="alignleft" width="112"] Silver Spring Garden Club members plant a spring color garden at Holy Cross Hospital.[/caption] By Kathy Jentz The Silver Spring Garden Club brought

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GARDENING GODDESS: Classic flowers continue to dazzle

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Many gardeners were introduced to their passion for growing all things green at the knee of an older relative, such as a

Joe Keyser's rooftop garden

GARDENING GODDESS: High-rise horticulture

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Your green thumb is itching to get growing, but you don’t have a yard to dig into? Don’t think a garden is

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GREEN GODDESS: Green your home from the inside

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Indoor gardening or keeping houseplants is a hobby that many outdoor gardeners bewilderingly often do not pursue. Conversely, there are many green

Fall season container.

Containers to Get You Through the Winter Doldrums

This is the time of year where leaves are falling, frost is on your windows, and your planting beds are looking a bit bare. When that cold snap

A New Year in the Garden

Shopping for Your Plants by Mail or

Spirited adults join younger playmates at September Play Day

by Sandy Moore photos by Molly Mehling

Stephanie Lambadakis stepped gingerly between two twirling ropes and began jumping. The double dutch team looked on nervously as their coaches swung

Charlie Koiner and his “Corner Plot”

by Sandy Moore It seems out of place, set less than a city block from a high rise apartment building and new civic center. A solid acre of green.

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