NORTH COAST GARDENING: Living fence add beauty and privacy (Eureka Times-Standard)

Are nosy neighbors peeking into your living space? Is noisy traffic violating your ear space? Perhaps it is time to consider installing a living fence.

Gardening Gifts (BellaOnline)

With weeks to go before Christmas, now is the time to begin shopping for those gardening gifts. Gardeners prefer useful items, such as the following.

Help maintain gardens (Baltimore Sun)

The Howard County Conservancy welcomes Wednesday morning drop-in gardening volunteers to help maintain thematic and native plant gardens on conservancy property, Mount Pleasant Farm, in Woodstock. All levels of experience are welcome.

Spring blooms with bulbs planted in fall (Las Vegas Sun)

Autumn is the time to get bulbs into the ground for a vivid display of beautiful spring colors. Bulbs demonstrate that gardening is not for immediate gratification, but for people who like anticipation.

Gardening with squirrels is a losing battle, unless you feed them well (Dallas Morning News)

Squirrels are ruining next year's flowers. I sowed poppy, larkspur, forget-me-not, bishop's lace and other easy-to-grow flowering annuals a few weeks ago in the soft earth of my sunny perennial beds.