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  • CLIPPINGS

    Plastic pots pile up for recycling

    SusanSmith-Durisek

    The recycle-a-pot program at the Arboretum on Alumni Drive has ended for the summer, and it was a huge success.

  • Wal-Mart, JCPenney borrow an idea from Ikea

    By Maria Halkias

    Wal-Mart's new Canopy and JCPenney's new Linden Street home furnishings brands don't have the name recognition of an Ikea or a Pottery Barn, but they're going after the same customers.

  • Attract wildlife by the yard

    By Beverly Fortune

    Whether you live in the city or the suburbs, with a little effort, you can ­attract a surprising assortment of birds, butterflies, insects and small animals to your yard.

Matt Goins

Hamilton Park residents have a garden culture

Residents value their produce and one another

Either Hamilton Park attracts gardeners or gardening interests sprout once people move here. Which comes first is hard to say. But it’s easy to say this: Practically every house on the street has vegetables growing in the back yard or flowers in the front.

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Look what your garden can become

      By Hazel Combs

      Stafford Cliff is a design consultant and art director whose life work has been designing catalogs and ­magazines relating to the home. Here, he has turned his practiced eye to ­assembling photographic collages of all sorts of garden items in categories you can see in a glance, including steps, containers, walls, water features, gates, pots and colors.

    • Digging In

      Events, gatherings and products that are cropping up

      Blue Grass Hemerocallis Society Show and Sale. 1-5 p.m. July 5. The Mall at Lexington Green. Free. (859) 608-9071.

    • More shoppers are turning to reusable bags

      By Jenna Youngs

      Reusable shopping bags are everywhere, it seems. A few include pictures of the Earth and trendy phrases: ”I'm saving the planet — what are you doing?“

    • CLIPPINGS

      Gardening methods work for her, maybe you

      By Susan Smith-Durisek

      Barbara Schubert, who grew up on a farm in Ireland's County Kildare and now lives in a ­Victorian cottage near downtown ­Lexington, employs some fine cultivation techniques that could help keep your green garden going.

    • At the pool: fewer chemicals, more pizazz

      By Kim Cook

      Taking a dip in a back-yard pool has never looked so refreshing.

    • Star-spangle your home and yard

      By Paige Phelpsand Mariana Greene

      With patriotism running high, up the ante on your home's Fourth of July curb appeal with vintage-inspired decor. Decorate with tea-stained bunting, reproduced Civil War-era textiles, red and white garden flowers and, of course, a multitude of stars and stripes.

    • "Apartment Therapy': Real design solutions

      By Heather Svokos

      Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Real Design Solutions By Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Jill Slater and Janel LabanChronicle Books. 264 pp. $27.50.

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Spruce up garden with perennially good advice

      By Barbara Mabry

      Perennials Short and Tall:A Seasonal Progression of Flowers for Your Garden By Moya L. Andrews; illustrations by Gillian Andrews.Quarry Books. 144 pp. $19.95.

    • DIGGING IN

      Events, gatherings and products that are cropping up

      Kentucky Main Street Program ­Downtown Living Tours. 10 a.m. to noon June 28, Winchester. Tour downtown lofts. Free.

    • The sundial can stand out in a garden

      ,SusanSmith-Durisek

      We live in a constantly changing world, but each day, one thing remains the same: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west ­— although not in exactly the same spot on the horizon.

    • Here are cool ideas to cut summer energy costs

      By Alan J. Heavens

      It's the first day of summer, and already it's hot. If this keeps up, there's little doubt that we'll all see our electricity bills spike.

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      Digging in

      Events, gatherings and products that are cropping up.

    • book review

      Step inside the style of San Miguel

      ,By Susan Smith-Durisek

      Casa San Miguel: Inspired Design and DecorationBy Annie Kelly; photographs by Tim Street-Porter.Rizzoli. 240 pp. $55.

    • Ashland Terrace residents share what they grow

      By Mary Meehan

      Off the parking lot, behind Ashland Terrace, is an unexpected treasure.

    • Flights and fancy

      Birders make purple martins feel at home

      By Art Lander Jr.

      RICHMOND ­— When Kent Kessler bought 20 acres outside of town four years ago, he was hoping it was more than just a good site to build a new home.

    • Tour takes a look at the farms behind the market

      By Sharon Thompson

      The overflowing bins of fresh fruit, vegetables, ­flowers, honey, meat and eggs that you find at Lexington Farmers Market are the result of hours of work on Central Kentucky farms by local farmers.

    • CLIPPINGS

      The Little Club's big event

      Susan Smith-Durisek

      Three great garden gurus will be on hand at Welcome Hall farm near Versailles when The Little Garden Club of Woodford County holds its A Blue Ribbon Day event on June 25.

    • As a creeping plant, Goldilocks is just right

      A variety of moneywort, it's robust and versatile

      By Norman Winter

      A couple of years ago, I wrote about a plant called Goldilocks. Since then, I have fallen head over heels for the plant and use it in many ways around my home. Lime green remains one of the ­hottest colors for the landscape, and this plant has the ability to be the marquee.

    • Digging In

      Events, gatherings and products that are cropping up

      Passport to the World: A Standard Flower Show. Presented by Lexington Council Garden Clubs. 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. June 14. Crestwood Christian Church, 1882 Bellefonte Dr. (859) 277-0731.

    • Smaller energy bill is made in the shade

      Trees around house can help in winter and summer

      By Stacy Downs

      KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Utility costs are on the rise, along with so many other ­expenses. One way to cut bills is to landscape your home for energy efficiency.

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Exploring the wide world of salvias

      By Nan Starkweather

      The New Book of Salvias:Sages for Every GardenBy Betsy Clebsch;drawings by Carol D. Barnes.Timber Press. 344 pp. $19.95.

    • Bungalow is urban, yet quiet and private

      Lexingtonian built his version of a French city house

      By Beverly Fortune

      Chris Newman looked for two years for an ideal place for an ­urban infill project. Then he ­discovered Kenwick, an older area that includes bungalows and Craftsman-style houses with a new neighborhood energy.

    • A coat of ferns

      The plants add a lushness to gardens

      By Susan Smith Durisek

       

    • The practical but pretty picnic

      By Karalee Miller

       

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Handbook for underused garden plants

      By Betsy Adler

       

    • Clippings

      Conservancy to display gardens in Louisville

      By Susan Smith-Durisek

       

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Book gives fresh painting ideas

      By Susan Smith-Durisek

      Strié, ragging, color washing, spatter, faux finishes, stamping, stencils and murals: Who knew there were so many techniques for applying paint to walls?

    • Comfortable, stylish patio furniture

      By Meda Kessler and Buzz Mcclain

      We saw a vintage folding patio chair in a tag sale recently. Its woven web design and aluminum frame took us back to our youth, when we sat in the back yard watching the fireflies blink in the inky darkness of summer nights. But today, patio furniture is less about nostalgia and more about luxury and comfort.

    • Farmers market returns

      Chef lends hand at opening festivities

      By Sharon Thompson

      The blooming jonquils and forsythia, the singing birds and the warm sunshine are considered by many to be signs of spring. But most Lexingtonians know that the opening of the outdoor Farmers Market marks the official transition of seasons.

    • CLIPPINGS

      A chance to help plant

      Susan Smith-Durisek

      Since 1999, Reforest the Bluegrass, an ecological restoration effort jointly sponsored by Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's Water Quality, Urban Forestry and Parks & Recreation programs, has been encouraging volunteers to dig in and replant riparian zone buffers around waterways, using native tree species.

    • BOOK REVIEW

      Book offers ideas for composting

      The Complete Compost Gardening GuideBy Barbara Pleasant& Deborah L. MartinStorey Publishing 319 pp $29.95

    • SENSIBLE HOME

      Steam ovens save energy, cook healthier

      James Dulley

      Question: I want a healthy and efficient method to cook meals for my family. I don't like microwave ovens for most foods. How efficient are the new residential steam ovens and do they bake as well as a regular oven? — Jan T.

    • Revive your deck with a good cleaning

      Associated Press

      Right now, your deck or patio might look grungy from winter leaf and debris stains, mildew and aging.

    • Baby's room can now be trendy

      By Kim Cook

      Who said nursery design had to be color-by-numbers?

    • CLIPPINGS

      New site for antiques show has a lot of class(rooms)

      Susan
Smith-Durisek

      The Athens Schoolhouse Antique Show is making its debut this weekend. After 22 years at the Lexington Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse on Angliana Avenue, the Rose family is continuing the monthly show at a new location: the former Athens School property, 6270 Athens Walnut Hill Road. Take Interstate 75 to exit 104, then go one mile east on Athens-Boonesboro Road, or go straight out Richmond Road from Lexington. To celebrate, there will be a $1,000 drawing. Admission, which is $2, can be used as credit in the snack area and, yes, bean soup is on the menu. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. See www.bigblueantiques.com or call (859) 255-7309.

    • Tips for starting seeds

      By Amy Wilson

      Nan Starkweather always had admired ­gerbera daisies but not their price. A glamorous, big-headed, vibrantly colored cutting flower, the daisy can sell for $8 to $10 a stem.

    • Buying a shed? Use your head

      By Alan J. Heavens

      Where do you store your lawn mower, your gardening implements and other tools? If the answer is the garage or the basement, odds are your gear is hard to get to or tough to find when you need it.

    • Guru’s weight-loss idea: Get organized

      His new book draws link between clutter and obesity

      By Tania Fuentez

      Which came first, the clutter or the fat? TLC’s Clean Sweep expert Peter Walsh has the answer — but don’t expect him to mince words in the new book, 'Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?' ($25, Free Press).

    • Book review

      P. Allen Smith gets more out of a garden

      From his own television program, P. Allen Smith Garden Home, and appearances on the Today show to the many publications in which he has shared a love of gardening, P. Allen Smith is widely recognized for both a green thumb and a skilled hand at weaving together home and garden in new and delightful ways.

    • Budding artists

      Mom, daughter sculpt a garden's worth of flowers

      By Jennifer Hewlett

      They're inelegant blobs of drywall mud that have been turned into colorful, jewel-bedecked works of art. They're flowers that have been given names like Cadillac, Lexus, Kelp, Aztec and Sasha.
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