house and home

• Features

Tidy living: organized space can bring peace of mind

• House and Home

Budget-friendly home decor ideas

• Garden Q&A

Tips for cutting down garden chores with age

First, match the ultimate plant size and requirements for water, soil and sun to your site, which will mean no pruning, no watering (after the first two years), no fertilizing and no shaping plants that lean out or stretch up to reach sunlight.

• Maryland

Public schools to showcase student talent at Manchester Valley High

The public school system is joining forces with the Kiwanis Clubs of Carroll County to showcase high school student talent to the community with the 6th annual Sherri-Le Bream Spotlight on Youth Event from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 11 at Manchester Valley High School.

• Garden Q&A

Nature's clock will tell you when to spray for crabgrass

The rule of thumb based on nature's timing is to apply a pre-emergent herbicide for crabgrass when forsythia drop their blooms.

• Garden Q&A

A shady garden is perfect for some fruits and vegetables

Many fruits and vegetables, such as leafy greens, can grow well in partial shade.

• Maryland

Public schools to showcase student talent at Manchester Valley High

The public school system is joining forces with the Kiwanis Clubs of Carroll County to showcase high school student talent to the community with the 6th annual Sherri-Le Bream Spotlight on Youth Event from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 11 at Manchester Valley High School.

• Features

Local artist's work shines through the fabric of social media

By Susan Reimer

Mar 13, 2015

• Garden Q&A

Strong pesticides will eliminate pests' predators, too

If you're having trouble combating aphids, it's possible that a vicious cycle has resulted from using highly toxic broad-spectrum pesticides.

• Features

Nouveau Home and Interior Design sale

• Maryland

At home and garden show, plant lovers cling to early signs of spring

Visitors at the Maryland Home and Garden Show, still shell-shocked by a brutal winter, seemed guardedly hopeful spring is here to stay.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Mar 8, 2015

• Garden Q&A

To get rid of flies indoors, eliminate their breeding ground

Some flies, such as a drain fly or sewer fly, breed in wet, rotting material such as drain gunk.

• Features

Marsala's in the mix for home decor

By John-John Williams IV

Feb 12, 2015

• House and Home

Nouveau Home & Interior Design opens in Mount Vernon

Nouveau Home & Interior Design, formerly called Nouveau Contemporary Goods, has moved into its new home in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 3, 2015

• Garden Q&A

A splitting tree trunk can have many causes

It could a crack from frost, sunscald, insects, herbicide damage or simply a natural growth crack.

• Garden Q&A

When hanging a hammock, avoid harming trees

A small, vertical interruption is better than a rope or wire encircling a trunk for too long, cutting off flow around the entire trunk and killing the tree.

• Garden Q&A

Pine needles make excellent mulch

Pine needles make an attractive, highly sought after mulch. They have been mulching pine trees naturally for eons.

• Garden Q&A

Praying mantis egg cases on your Christmas tree could pose problems

Your warm house will cause the eggs to hatch prematurely, and you will have tiny and cute, but fragile, praying mantises running all over.

• Garden Q&A

Repotting baby amaryllis bulbs could yield more blooms

When left in the same pot as the main one, there will be less space, moisture and nutrients for the bulblets.

• Garden Q&A

Be careful with leaf removal over grass seedlings

Falling leaves are one reason why it is best to sow grass seed early in fall, even in late August, so it is mature enough to withstand leaf removal.

• Features

Wedded: Stephanie Kinnear and Brad Stevens

This ceremony was country chic, with a touch of romance

• Lifestyle and Leisure

HomeGoods to open in Westminster Nov. 9

HomeGoods, an off-price home decor retailer, will open a store in Westminster on Nov. 9.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 27, 2014

• Obituaries

Claire Marie Wagonhurst, NDP senior

Claire Marie Wagonhurst, a Notre Dame Preparatory School senior who had plans to study interior design, died of melanoma Oct. 16 at her Lutherville home. She was 17.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 20, 2014

• Maryland

Rolling Clovers 4-H Club lists placings

Members of the Rolling Clovers 4-H Club exhibited their project work and their livestock at the Maryland State Fair that ended Sept. 1

• Floral Design

Senior briefs

Senior Briefs

• Features

Garden Q&A: It's not too late to fertilize your lawn this fall

Many of the weeds that move in die off in winter or do not produce the thick root system a healthy turf provides. This invites erosion.

• Harford

HCC board briefed on 3-D printing, ends two programs

As additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing, becomes more commonly used among manufacturers, Harford Community College faculty and staff members are developing methods of educating students about the process.

• Features

Wedded: Karen Reed and Matt Schroeder

After more than a decade of waiting, a wedding giveaway made this day possible

• Anne Arundel

Senior briefs

Senior Briefs

• Television Industry

Lifting spirits, one flower at a time

At just 11 years old, best friends and Owings Mills residents Abby Levin and Lexi Thomas have a pretty packed schedule. On top of their middle and religious school classes and extracurricular activities, the two also operate Flowers for Powers, a nonprofit organization through which they deliver flowers to people battling cancer, residents of nursing homes, hospital patients and others.

• Features

Interior designer Michelle Miller talks working with urban spaces

To Michelle Miller, urban interior design is all about working with light and architecture to create space. The Baltimore resident and award-winning home decor professional spoke with Chesapeake Home + Living about creating easier, more comfortable living in open lofts and narrow row houses.

• Features

Local artisans turn yesterday's goods into home decor

With shabby-chic design back in high demand, there¿s no shortage of mass-produced decor disguised as antiques. But the genuine article ¿ the old form reclaimed with a new function ¿ is much harder to come by. With a nod to the Depression-era adage, ¿Waste not, want not,¿ these are the stories of three artistic visionaries giving new life to items once thought to be years past their prime.

• Maryland

Carroll's Best: 2014 Winners

• Features

Let tomatoes ripen indoors to avoid frost damage

Fortunately, tomatoes do not need to ripen on the vine to have good flavor

• Baltimore City

Nouveau Contemporary Goods leaving Belvedere Square

Noveau home firnishings store leaving Belvedere Square and the Crittenton/ Cairnes Lane developments move forward in the city review process.

• Maryland

Chamber's bingo offers 'family fun'

The Taneytown Chamber of Commerce is hosting Family Fun Bingo Aug. 15 at Pleasant Valley Fire Hall.

• Maryland

Carroll's Best: 2013 Winners

• Features

Tomato plants are especially vulnerable to persistent herbicides

Tomato plants are like canaries in the coal mine when it comes to herbicide injury. They are super sensitive to the chemical 2,4-D and its family of growth-regulating herbicides, including clopyralid.

• Harford

Bel Air's Natural Gatherings sells handmade crafts sourced from owners' garden

Rick and Jane Bargers opened Natural Gatherings 14 years ago, when they decided that instead of taking a traditional retirement, they would turn their gardening, woodworking and flower-arranging hobbies into a business.

• Features

Tips to keep away ticks and Lyme disease

Remove non-native invasive plants to encourage a functioning native ecosystem, which includes predators for the white-footed mice that are deer ticks' main host.

• Features

Prevent further stress for suffering Leyland cypress

Some Leyland cypresses were, indeed, killed by this severe winter or are still in the process of dying slowly.

• Obituaries

Frances W. Riepe, interior decorator

Frances W. Riepe, a former interior decorator who had been a trustee of Ladew Gardens, died Friday of congestive heart failure at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 91.

• Maryland

Taneytown garden club's sale a 'perennial' favorite

• Obituaries

Michele F. Green, homemaker

Michele F. Green, a homemaker who had worked in a florist shop, died Monday of heart failure at her East Baltimore home. She was 55.

• Features

Make sure pesticides don't harm helpful pollinators

Some pesticides, such as horticultural oil or soap, are effective and have low impact on beneficial insects.

• Maryland

Spirited Tales and Tours offered in New Windsor

• Maryland

2013

• Maryland

Artist follows in sister's footsteps

• Maryland

Artist follows in sister's footsteps

• Maryland

Buffett and BBQ Fest returning to Taneytown