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With your lawn turning brown from the winter frost and an El Nino weather event on the horizon, you may find yourself considering artificial turf to keep your lawn or front verge looking green. It's an increasingly popular choice, particularly in newer suburbs where block sizes are smaller. But while synthetic grass offers an even, green surface that requires little maintenance, it comes with a big environmental price tag.
Orchids: How To Grow and Care For Orchids Original
Orchids make a wonderful long-lasting alternative to cut flowers, often thrown out once the blooms have faded. But if you can't bear to do that, treat them right and they'll continue to produce wonderful flowers for years to come. The trick is to not be too kind to them. The following orchids may originate from tropical regions, but given protection and bright, filtered sunlight, they grow well in most parts of Australia.
How To Grow and Care For Orchids
Orchids make a wonderful long-lasting alternative to cut flowers, often thrown out once the blooms have faded. But if you can’t bear to do that, treat them right and they’ll continue to produce wonderful flowers for years to come. The trick is to not be too kind to them. The following orchids may originate from tropical regions, but given protection and bright, filtered sunlight, they grow well in most parts of Australia.
RISEing up
Buffalo, Laguna Woods, Uvalde. These are names we will remember, at least for a while. Sadly, most of the names of cities where mass shootings (defined as four or more people shot) or other gun violence occur we do not remember. We never even hear them. One or more mass shootings have occurred every single day in this country in 2022. Here in Washington, there have been 10 mass shootings in the past 12 years.
Have we finally reached the tipping point that stops gun violence in America? I sat down to write this 21 days after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York; 20 days after a mass shooting in Laguna Woods, California; 11 days after a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas; and one day after a mass shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In that same three-week timeframe there were 32 other mass shootings that you probably didn’t hear about.
iBelieve's Top 10 Words of Wisdom in 2021
Through trial and error, we now have the opportunity to learn from our past, to glean lessons from mistakes. So with hope on the schedule for 2022, let's check out iBelieve's top 10 words of wisdom. We were all ready for 2021. Why? Because it wasn't 2020, plain and simple. After a year of fear and constant unknowns, we were banking on 2021 offering us more sure, steady ground to tread on.
Daylilies: How to grow and care for this flower
Growing daylilies? Find out how to care for your daylily plant. Dec 10, 2019 11:00pm Daylilies Fitting perfectly into the cottage or perennial garden daylilies look fabulous mixed with bold architectural plantings. Plus, they're incredibly tough and easy to grow. Originating from Asia, the daylily (Hemerocallis spp.) is not a bulb but a clump-forming perennial. Each flower lasts only a day, although they bloom for months, from October to May. Daylilies are very nutritious and all parts can be eaten.
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