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Tag: Garden

  • Harvest Power Mobile App Upgraded for the Growing Season

    Harvest Power, focused on maximizing the value of organic materials, has upgraded its Harvest Landscape Calculator, a mobile app for gardeners and landscapers. The free app, now available on Android devices in addition to iPhones and iPads, features an enhanced user interface that makes it even easier to determine how much soil, mulch or stone…

  • Constructive Healing Through Soothing Environments

    Studies show that gardens — both in and outside medical facilities — soothe patients. It isn’t much of a leap to see that gardens with walkways, benches and the gentle hum of falling water would have similar effects in other public facilities. However, medical research also shows that water features, especially indoors, must be properly constructed and…

  • Beyond St. Patrick: A History of Green in Global Culture

    This Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means people observing the occasion are starting to see green. But the popular color (which comes second only to blue when people are picking favorites) has signified a lot more than Irish pride throughout history. With the green day almost upon us — and to celebrate the launch…

  • Beyond St. Patrick: A History of Green in Global Culture

    This Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means people observing the occasion are starting to see green. But the popular color (which comes second only to blue when people are picking favorites) has signified a lot more than Irish pride throughout history. With the green day almost upon us — and to celebrate the launch…

  • Plants Are Altruistic According to New Study

    The researchers looked at corn, in which each fertilized seed contained two “siblings” — an embryo and a corresponding bit of tissue known as endosperm that feeds the embryo as the seed grows, said CU-Boulder Professor Pamela Diggle. They compared the growth and behavior of the embryos and endosperm in seeds sharing the same mother…