August 2011

Aug25

Featured Garden: 63-OG

An Eclectic Edible Garden in Oakland, California

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Oakland, California, 63-OG is an edible landscape filled with eclectic plants tended by gardener Zerubba Levi, who strives to create an "edible jungle" in a sea of concrete.

Aug19

Historic Ferns in One of Nation's Most Beautiful Indoor Spaces at Mercy of Elements

Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory Races Against Nature to Repair Damage from Storm

Six weeks ago Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest conservatories in the United States, often referred to as "landscape art under glass," incurred extensive damage from a hailstorm that battered the glass roofs of four major plant rooms.

Aug18

Featured Garden: Fats Green Garden

A Backyard Garden in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Fats Green Garden is a backyard garden inspired by and in honor of Christine's grandparents.

Aug11

Lisa Marini Finerty

In Memoriam 1954 - 2011

By Tom Finerty

For those of you who got to know Lisa on our site, you know how passionate she was about gardening and that she truly believed that more and better informed gardeners make a healthier world for all of us. Her voice, integrity and energy will be missed in uncountable ways. YourGardenShow is part of her personal legacy.

Aug03

A Self-Watering AutoGarden

Dr. Duncan Bell combines botany & robotics to design a new watering system

Jennifer Hausler

One plot in our community garden is attracting a lot of attention.  It’s a raised, solar powered, self-watering “AutoGarden” designed by Dr. Duncan Bell, a veteran gardener who is about to retire from his day job as head of Biomedical Engineering at Pfizer/Wyeth.  Using his Ph.D. in botany and his background as a robot designer, he designed the system to be a cross between hydroponics and container gardening.

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