First, I’ll show you this weather map from The Washington Post, which predicts that D.C. will be about the hottest place in the country today and tomorrow (plus “the air is so humid you could probably wring water out of it”).
In the same paper, Adrian Higgins has an interesting article, “When it rains, it restores,” on three home rain gardens in our area, with a good illustration on how to create one.
Anne Raver, in the New York Times, writes about Philadelphia landscape architect Margie Ruddick’s choice to grow a “wild” front yard, which earned her a summons from the city (later dropped).
In the Los Angeles Times garden blog, there is an article on using weeds to protect and improve a community garden, “Long Beach garden fends off pests with stealth weapon: weeds. “
It’s followed by information on great new victory garden posters. To order, click here.
Got a chain saw? There’s a photo of a really beautiful log garden wall in the slideshow accompanying “How to make a walled garden,” by Bunny Guinness in The Telegraph.
This is from last week, but The Baltimore Sun garden blog has video and photos of the winners of its 2011 Garden Contest.
Here’s hoping for cooler weather next week. . . .
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