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TRANSPORTATION: Gov. O’Malley says gas tax would address safety, congestion concerns

TRANSPORTATION • BY MALI KRANTZ, CNS Gov. Martin O’Malley defended his proposed six percent sales tax on gasoline before House and Senate committees Wednesday, saying Maryland needs to address crumbling transportation infrastructure and crippling traffic congestion. “As a state, we …

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ENVIRONMENT: Salisbury company banking on wind farms to create jobs

ENVIRONMENT • BY AMANDA YEAGER, CNS Depending on whom you ask, John Congedo has poured his energy and savings either into one of Maryland's most promising sources of economic

Joe Keyser's rooftop garden

GARDENING GODDESS: High-rise horticulture

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Your green thumb is itching to get growing, but you don’t have a yard to dig into? Don’t think a garden is

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ENVIRONMENT: Conservationists say that humans must resolve to halt species loss

ENVIRONMENT • EARTHTALK I heard that species of flora and fauna are dying at a growing rate globally. How is this calculated and which types of species are

Holiday season blooms at the U.S. Botanic Garden.

WASHINGTON GARDENER: Plants for the Holiday Season

by Kathy Jentz  

As we get wrapped up in hectic holiday preparations over the next month, thoughts of gardening go out the window. Here is a tip

Japanese Beetles

Beat the Beetles

Pauline grew and pampered her grandmother's heirloom roses with pride each year. In March they had just began to leaf out, by May they were magnificent, but come

May garden chores: What to do in your garden now to enjoy it more later

This is the time of year we are just itching to get out and garden. Who wants to be stuck inside??!! You want to have a beautiful garden

Create a Cutting Garden

 

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Carla Hall

Green Matters: Real Food Renaissance

GARDENING GODDESS — What do area gardeners do in the bleakest months of the year? We hunker inside with our plant catalogs and seed-starting trays. We also do

A New Year in the Garden

Shopping for Your Plants by Mail or

Bulb Forcing 101

How to Get Spring Blooms in the Dead of Winter

Bamboo Anew

Take a Closer Look at this Versatile Grass

Get Free Plants to Grow and Share by Seed Saving

 

Spring Time Means Getting Back into the Garden

By Kathy Jentz

 

Think Spring: Join Takoma Horticultural Club



photo by Veronica Melendez

A hardy perennial since 1916

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