house and home

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This ceremony was country chic, with a touch of romance

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

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 27, 2014

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

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

Senior Briefs

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.

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.

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

Senior Briefs

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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