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Gardening Etiquette: Do You Follow The Rules?
By Kelly Moore
Neighbors who don’t mind their gardening Ps and Qs have long been the plight of the urban gardener. While historic, metropolitan neighborhoods are quaint, their characteristically close quarters often mean shared gardens – and shared weeds, rodents and invasive plants. While many gardeners follow a certain gardening etiquette, a refresher course is always a good idea. Read on for simple rules to keeping your reputation as pristine as your garden... >>More
Breaking the Rules
By Kelly Moore
Unconventional gardeners turn the color wheel inside out, making eyes pop and jaws drop on their northeast Iowa property.
Adhering to the conventions of color harmony isn’t a rule followed by master gardener Shereen Kos and her husband, Stephen. In fact, finding taboo hue combinations is the main objective of each spring’s shopping trip for annuals. Before the excursion is complete, the couple will bring home more than 500 bright beauties from nurseries in the area. Shereen estimates that nearly two-thirds of their backyard garden is made up of brilliantly colored annuals, and every available space on the one-third-acre lot is packed with flowers so vivid that at times they appear dyed. Mixing these blooms in eccentric patterns and mishmash color combinations is Shereen’s forte.
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Girlfriend Getaway
by Kelly Moore
With visions of neon lights, slot machines and scantly clad entertainers dancing in my head, I boarded the plane for Las Vegas. Leaving behind the bitter cold of Iowa would have been reason enough for me to make the trip. But 80 degrees and cloudless skies weren’t the only things awaiting me amidst the cigar smoke and twinkling bulbs of Sin City – my girls were there.
Dropping into 23C, I made sure to avoid eye contact with 23B and quickly pulled a book from my single allotted carryon – the international sign for “No In-Flight Chit Chat.”
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