Home & Garden
Hot Property: Bruce Willis seeks action on his Beverly Hills estate
Actor Bruce Willis has entered the fray in the Westside's action-packed housing market, listing his Beverly Hills mansion at $22 million.
Home & Garden
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GARDENING
Lauterbach: Chemists keep busy improving organic pesticides
There are new developments in pesticides, Neem having been reformulated to be used as a foliar spray or as a drench, allowing the pesticide to enter plants through roots and flow to all parts.
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HOME & GARDEN
'Does It Work?' Wraptastic, Pocket Hose, Smart Twist Cleaning System, Flower Rocket, WaxVac
From those amped-up TV ads, you have to wonder how humanity survived before collapsible garden hoses and earwax vacuums.
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GARDENING
Why roses are the most famous flower
President Barack Obama took the unusual step of holding a formal event in the White House Rose Garden this week to announce three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Roses are by far the most culturally significant flower in the Western world. Shakespeare wrote about the ...
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HOME & GARDEN
Home style: 'Star Trek' crafts; women's tools; unsticking drawers
ON THE SHELF: CRAFT BOOKS BOLDLY GO WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE
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HOME & GARDEN
Diggin' In: Feng shui for your garden
Is your garden calling out to you to do something and you are not sure what to do first?
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HOME & GARDEN
Living Smart: Appliance maintenance
Every day our appliances take a beating. From the constant opening and closing of doors to turning them on and off, our daily actions can eventually lead to a repair call or earlier-than-expected replacement.
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HOME & GARDEN
Your Place: Patio bricks are turning black on top; sulfur smell
Q: I have a dry-laid brick patio bordered on three sides by flower beds. Over the years I have noticed that the bricks are turning black on top. This is not from garden soil or mud, and it is not uniform in its coverage. I have thought about scrubbing the bricks with a water-bleach mix, but I am...
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HOME & GARDEN
On Gardening: Blue Fortune anise hyssop simply stunning in the garden
Blue Fortune Agastache, or anise hyssop, is causing quite a stir in our garden. We have dozens - some partnered with TigerEye Gold rudbeckia, others with the scarlet milkweed - but believe me when I say 3- to 4-foot-tall incredible spikes of blue bottle brush-like flowers are indeed stealing the...
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GARDENING
McIntyre: Make your own 'black gold' from food and yard waste
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 23 percent of U.S. waste is garden debris, leaves, grass clippings, shrubs, and branches. Instead of dumping this organic waste in our landfills, turn it into nutrient rich organic fertilizer, compost.


