YOUR PLACE RIDDLE OF THE OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN.SOME GARDENING-BOOK authors dedicate entire chapters to all the tools you'll need and others go on and on about all the cherubs, bunnies and expensive garden benches that make a garden picture-perfect. Dean Riddle takes you down a less-written-about garden path in ``Out in the Garden ... Growing a Beautiful Life'' (HarperCollins; $24.95). Sure, he has real information about how to create a garden but it's more the nostalgia of old-fashioned gardens that he's selling with his trademark wit and Southern charm. And you can almost smell the roses and hear the birds splashing in his weathered bird bath as you turn the pages. A longtime columnist for Elle Decor magazine, Riddle grew up in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. where, as a 20-year-old horticulture student, he thought bird baths were the height of frivolity Frivolity Blondie the gaffe-prone, frivolous wife of Dagwood Bumstead. [Comics: Horn, 118] Dobson, Zuleika charming young lady who unconcernedly dazzles Oxford undergraduates. [Br. Lit. - things to amuse and occupy little old ladies. Now 44, living in a modest home with his own country-style garden, he admits he was wrong. ``The key to good gardening is to start with where you are and the people in your life. Be grateful for what you have,'' he says. ``Then, in creating a garden and interior space - which should relate - think of the landscape around you and things that have personal meaning to you. You don't have to do what Martha (Stewart) says. You don't have to acquire all the latest things.'' - Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. PLANT SALE AND WORKSHOP: Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Garden Club has a full morning of events Tuesday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. with its annual plant sale and country store at the Sepulveda Garden Center, 16633 Magnolia Blvd., Encino. At 10 a.m is the club's business meeting, followed by a horticulture workshop on roses at 10:30 a.m. and a program on fertilizers and insect control at 11 a.m. There is no admission charge. For more information, call club president Robin Pokorski at (818) 361-7873. - B.D. GO NATIVE: Native-plant advocate Elizabeth Schwartz will present a workshop on ``Growing Natives in Your Garden'' at 11 a.m. April 20 at Soka University of America SUA's educational philosophy was established by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, the first president of Soka Gakkai, who had worked as the principal of an elementary school in Japan. Makiguchi published the Value Creating Educational System based on his belief that "the purpose of education is to . The one-hour program will include tips on hillside ground covers and seasonal weeding and pruning pruning, the horticultural practice of cutting away an unwanted, unnecessary, or undesirable plant part, used most often on trees, shrubs, hedges, and woody vines. . It's free, but reservations are required; call (818) 878-3763. The university is located at 26800 W. Mulholland Highway  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. , Calabasas. - B.D. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (book: ``Out in the Garden...Growing a Beautiful Life'') (2) no caption (plant) |
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