New rooftop garden opens at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
World Interior Design Network
A new rooftop garden has opened at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in St. Paul, which is designed by Minnesota-based Cre8Play, as a dedicated green space supporting play, social, support and healing.

Tatroe: Gardening in a drought? Small is often more beautiful
Denver Post
Great care must go into selecting shrubs and trees for the small garden. I want four seasons of beauty through flowers, berries or seedheads (that don't create a mess when they drop), leaves that are out-of-the-ordinary (and either evergreen or with …

Garden designer Kate Gould: downsize, no compromise
Telegraph.co.uk
While designing a small garden certainly brings its challenges, the good news is that small doesn't have to be dull. There is tremendous scope for imagination. The more limited the space the more creative you can be and, indeed, need to be. The key to …

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Inside 'The Oscars' of Gardening
National Geographic
The day we visited—the week of the show's 100th anniversary—one woman described the show to us as the Oscars of gardening, where many months, even years, go into designing a small garden plot, and where the awards to specific landscape architects …
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Lush Life | A Fairy Tale Retreat in Wales
New York Times (blog)
In the popular classes he holds at Allt-y-bela every June, he teaches about maximizing small garden spaces and advises on the best “delicatessen” varieties to cultivate, focusing on the vegetables and herbs that are difficult to find locally or those …

Create plant haven for the senses
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Deciduous tree leaves whoosh, and pine trees whisper. A little portable trickling fountain makes even a small garden feel grounded in nature; a water feature of any sort will likely attract songbirds and small animals or reptiles. A wind chime may play …

Japan's foreign minister to address Tokyo reception celebrating Portland …
OregonLive.com
Steve Bloom, Portland Japanese Garden chief executive officer, said Wednesday that the United States and Japan need their friendship more than at any other time in recent history, given challenges caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. “We are an …

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Rooftop Garden Opens at Children's Hospital in St. Paul
KSTP.com
A new rooftop garden at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota aims to give patients a new area for respite, relation and more. The St. Paul hospital this week is celebrating its 6,000-square-foot Children's Hospital Association Storyland Garden.

Vegetable garden in SW plans to fill food bank hampers
660 News
An urban farm in the city's southwest will be growing 100,000 lbs of food for the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank. The entirely volunteer-run garden, located off West Valley Road, makes use of land that will eventually be part of the Stony Trail ring road …

Beaver Street lot will become neighborhood garden
Lancaster Newspapers
By a unanimous vote, the lot will be given to Lancaster Community Gardens, a new nonprofit organization which hopes to bring small garden plots to neighborhoods across the city. "We have 10 raised beds ready to go, so this will be great," said Charlie …