Stone House Garden made it through the garden walk and by all accounts it was a great success. Folks loved the color and diversity of plants. The purple garden is always the fave of visitors and this year it was a challenge due again to the weather. The warm season annuals sat and sulked after … Read more
With animal products out of bounds for vegan gardeners, what do they use? “Certainly not blood and bone!” Fiona Harman, who has a micro-organic farm near Oxford in the North Canterbury foothills, is almost spluttering down the phone. “I don’t think I would ever use it even if I weren’t vegan,” she laughs. “All those antibiotics.” Some gardeners … Read more
Your home is your sanctuary. Your choice of decor has an impact upon the overall energy of your space, and adding a little greenery is one of the easiest ways to truly transform a house or apartment into a home. In fact, studies have shown that indoor plants may even reduce psychological and physiological stress. eBay has … Read more
Summertime and the butterflies are flying. These days, you may have noticed the big yellow and black butterflies, the Western swallowtails, flitting about your yard. The overwintering chrysalises have opened and butterflies now fill meadows and local gardens alike. Perhaps you would like to encourage wild butterflies such as swallowtails to hang around your garden. … Read more
Is that your garden?’ my friend Michele, who was smoking a cigarette out of our kitchen window, gestured down at the bramble jungle below that was, technically, our garden. ‘What a waste,’ he said. He was staying with us in north London while he flat-hunted and most of the places he saw didn’t even have … Read more
Chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday expressed serious concern over diminishing traditional businesses of Kashmir and urged the youth to evince interest in old means of trade while starting their new business ventures. Mirwaiz stated this while inaugurating a business venture in Rainawari area of Downtown Srinagar. On the occasion, Mirwaiz urged youth … Read more
The first photos of Shloka Mehta and Akash Ambani’s Mehendi ceremony are out! Shloka looks gorgeous in a traditional lehenga in the combination of navy blue and white for the special night. Photos inside. The first photographs of Shloka Mehta and Akash Ambani’s Mehendi ceremony are out. The two, who are set to get engaged … Read more
With the aim of reviving traditional millet-based food in Tamil Nadu through farmers, IAS officer U Sagayam had flagged off the ‘Uzhavan Unavagam’ initiative in Madurai almost eight years ago. A few years later, the initiative deeply inspired a young IT professional in Chennai, who had begun to feel saturated in his well-paid job and … Read more
A saree is arguably the classiest outfit to wear whether it be to a dinner or a wedding and it never goes out of style. However, the otherwise traditional saree has in recent times seen designers experimenting with it and replacing the petticoat with pants and shalwars and the blouse with crop tops giving it … Read more
From memes to dance moves, 2018 is already responsible for a huge number of worldwide trends… but which are the ones that need to go out of style already? Reddit user Fireswar posed the question to the website, asking for people’s suggestions of trends that should stop as soon as possible, and people had strong opinions. Here … Read more