Spring Gardens Awarded for Rockville Office Maintenance
Spring Gardens of Ijamsville won a 1993 id award for care of the West Gade Office complex in Rockville. The 20 acre site includes 292000 square feet across three buildings. Spring Gardens has managed the complex since 1995, contact (301) 831 8000.
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Spring Gardens
Ijamsville
West Gade
Rockville
Landowner Field Day Set by Frederick Forestry Board
The Freder ick County Forestry Board sponsors the second annual Landowner s Field Day from 8 30 a m to 3 30 p m Saturday May 15 at the Stronghold property 5 Mountain. Registration is 10 with attendance limited to 50. For info or registration call Mike Kay at 301 473 8417.
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Frederick County Forestry Board
5 Mountain
Mike Kay
Garden tour set for May weekend by museum hosts
This year’s Beyond the Garden Gate Garden and Home Tour runs Saturday May 29 and Sunday May 30. Hours are noon to 5 p m Saturday and 10 a m to 5 p m Sunday. The Schifferstadt Architectural Museum on Rosemont Avenue serves as a hospitality site. For tickets or more information call (301) 63-3885.
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Schifferstadt Architectural Museum
Rosemont Avenue
Landscape Service Guide promotes contractor selection
The Landscape Contractors Association Maryland Washington DC Virginia offers a free 1999 Landscape Service Guide with guidelines to choose a landscape professional and a directory of members by area. To obtain the guide, contact LCA at 15245 Shady Grove Road Suite 130 Rockville MD 20850 or call 301 948 0810. Members are listed on the LCA web site at www lcamddeva org.
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The
Landscape Contractors Association
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Virginia
LCA
Shady Grove Road
Rockville
Water photographs at McCrillis Gardens and Gallery show
McCrillis Gardens and Gallery in Bethesda host a water photography exhibit from April 29 through May 21. Sponsored by the Silver Spring Camera Club, Frank Van Riper, Washington Post columnist, presents 43 water images with note cards for sale. Opening reception is 7 to 9 p.m. April 22 at 6910 Green Tree Road. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tue-Sun. gardens open daily 10 a.m. to sunset. Call (301) 365-1657 for information.
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McCrillis
Gardening Magazine of the Month Club Launches
The magazine club offers gardeners a new resource with monthly varied gardening magazines. Subscribers receive 12 samplings at half-off newsstand price for 2195 plus 295 shipping. Call 1-888-775-MAGS or visit magazineofthemonth com for details.
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Magazineofthemonth
Garden events at Brookside Gardens May schedule
May events at Brookside Gardens Wheaton include Ken Druse’s Collectors Garden talk and book signing May 20 with reception, Native American Roots in Holistic Health May 25, a guided ethnobotany walk May 26, and Colors to Dye For weaving class May 27. Fees range from 10 to 19 dollars.
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Brookside Gardens
Glenallan Ave
Wheaton
Ken Druse
Tula Fitzgerald
Ethnobotanst
James Duke
Brookside
Ginny Barnes
StandUp Gardens Limited unveils accessible wheel garden systems
StandUp Gardens Limited of Ore Gum designs table-height gardening systems on wheels with wooden arbors and trellises to aid physically disabled horticulture enthusiasts. The StandUp Garden is the first product endorsed by the American Horticultural Therapy Association. For more information, call 1-800-876-8283.
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StandUp Gardens Limited
American Horticultural Therapy Association
Maryland PLANT program honors school award winners
The People Loving and Nurturing Trees awards were handed out Friday at Isiminger Town Center Cumberland. Sponsored by Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service and MCFC the PLANT Community Program honors communities active in planting and caring for trees. Plaques went to Eileen Tipperman Deer Crossing Elementary Tim Ackinclose Clear Spring Middle Chad M Clovis Frederick Betty Boyland Fort Detrick Douglay H Stull Hagerstown.
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Isiminger
Cumberland
Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, Forest Service and
Community Forest Council
MCFC
Eileen Tipperman
Deer Crossing
Tim Ackinclose
Clear Spring Middle School
Chad M Clovis
City of
Fredenck
Betty Boyland
Fort Detrick
Douglay H Stull
Hagerstown
Asian Eggplant and Yardiong Beans in 1999 Veg Guide
In Part II of 1999 Year of the Asian Vegetables the column covers Asian eggplant and yardiong beans. Asian eggplant has long matured fruit up to nine inches and comes in black white lavender pink purple or green. It thrives in full sun, warm soil, and well drained beds with high organic matter. Seed indoors 10 to 12 weeks before last frost or buy bedding plants and transplant 18 to 24 inches apart in rows 30 to 36 inches apart after frost risk passes.
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China
Japan
Asia
Europe
United States
National Garden Bureau
Donald Lee
Lee
Evergreen VH Enterprises
PO Box
Anaheim
Calif
Eeseedsyraol.com
Maryland 2000 launches MaryLandscapes garden grants
Maryland 2000 unveils MaryLandscapes a Bay friendly gardening program inspired by BayScapes. Grants up to 10000 support native plant gardens educating the public about environmental stewardship and reducing water fertilizer and pesticide use. Applications open until July 14 with selections announced August 2 and gardens due by November 2000.
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Maryland
MaryLandscapes
Alliance For the Chesapeake Bay
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Chesapeake Bay
Mary Landscapes Gardens
Port
Dave Minges
Chesapeake Bay Trust
Maryland 2000
Mary Landscapes
Maryland Commission For Celebration
Year of the Asian Vegetables Part I and II gardening guide
Practical notes on harvesting pruning storing and pest control for eggplants beans and asparagus beans. Details cover mulching watering staking watering and soil prep plus origin names for asparagus beans and varieties. The piece acknowledges the National Garden Bureau and gardener Donald Lee and provides seed contact information for Evergreen VH Enterprises.
FALCAN elects new officers to lead Frederick County group
Frederick County Landscape Contractors and Nurserymen Association selects a new slate with John Bradshaw treasurer Danny Felice secretary Carroll Shry vice president and David Hawkins president. The officers invite new members from all horticultural sectors to monthly meetings to share ideas and industry information. For more information call 301 473 5678 or fax 301 473 4895.
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Frederick County Landscape Contractors and Nurserymen Association
Falcan
John Bradshaw
Green Acre Nursery
Danny Felice
Lesco Company
Carroll Shry
Frederick County Career and Technology Center
David Hawkins
Hawkins Landscaping
Bradshaw
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