Yards & Gardens
Rethinking the Front Yard: Dale Avenue
Staying Off The Grass
Here’s another example of a yard that breaks the shackles of a resource-hungry lawn. This non-lawn front yard on Dave Avenue in Eden Park is attractive and quirky, even in the Nashville-worthy heat of this June morning. The garden has a good selection of carefree plants, including the nasturtiums, creeping phlox, arborvitaes and junipers – all of which do well in dry, sunny conditions. The nasturtiums, a self-seeding annual, are especially adaptable to poor, dry soil. Ivy and cedar mulch fill the gaps between the plants to help to retain moisture and reduce weeds.
The water usage on this yard is probably negligible, and most of the plants can be found at any garden center. Outside of the occasional time spent on weeding, freshening up the mulch and keeping the ivy in check, this is practically a hands-free garden.
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Saturday April 11, 2009
The Economics of the Urban Veggie Garden
Eat Your Yard, Continued It seems that a home vegetable garden renaissance is at hand. Home gardening stories are sprouting up all over the web. All the publicity surrounding the push to plant a garden on the White House lawn doesn’t hurt, either. ‘‘It’s a hurricane,’‘ George Ball, owner of W. Atlee... more
Sunday March 29, 2009
Lawn Alternatives: Eat Your Yard
A medium-sized garden in the Eden Park section of Cranston In our quest to find ways replace our ubiquitous and resource-hungry lawns, it’s time to consider the front yard vegetable garden. It’s becoming more common to see portions of Cranston lots dedicated to various edibles. A luxurious lot in Eastern Cranston... more
Monday October 27, 2008
Scary House
Images from a thoroughly decorated house on Tennyson. Somewhere in the menagerie is an inflatable green M&M. I can see an M&M in a scary light – especially to someone with diabetes. The artist of the display claims it was purely a comic touch.
Sunday September 14, 2008
Rabbit!
He was walking [along] a road. He again saw a Rabbit lying on the edge of the road. As he went along quite close to it, he spoke thus: “Who’d meddle with a rock Rabbit?” he said. That one was a real Rabbit but he paid no attention to it. He passed on... more
Tuesday August 12, 2008
Fauna of Cranston: 9 Rabbits and an Owl
When they went on the second day and arrived at the garden, it had all grown up high again. Every tree and bush, every stalk and bramble had put itself back together again. “What is happening?” they said. The animals small and great: puma, jaguar, deer, rabbit, fox, coyote, peccary,... more