Bulb Time!
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Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Flower by Setsuko Fukuda, Kokubunji City, Tokyo Japan
Rug hookers, that is. Here’s a Post Script to this Saturday’s Herald-Leader Inside/Out feature story about Rug Hooking. (Click HERE to read the original feature article.)  The P.S.: If you’re interested in rug hooking , there is also an international exhibit up at the Carnegie Center in New Albany, Indiana. which is just across the river from Louisville. If you go to the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists’ (ATHA) show in Louisville this coming weekend, it’s just a short jump away.  The exhibit up at the Carnegie Center in New Albany is called Stripes, which is a world-class, travelling Japanese-American collaboration of 56 rugs on display now through the month of October. What can you create using stripes? A variety of ideas can be seen in this show. If you time it right, while your there you can also visit the Cat House Rugs shop in nearby Floyd’s Knobs, Indiana, too. Click on the following links to find more information:
Stripes Exhibit Carnegie Center for Art and History 201 E. Spring St., New Albany ; (812) 944-7336. Open now through October 24,10 a.m.-5:30 p.m, Tuesday through Saturday,. Free.
Cat House Rugs  4106 Andrew Dr., Floyds Knobs, Indiana; (812) 923-0200Â
 ATHA Biennial Convention at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville.
If your only connection with Orioles is a baseball team from Baltimore, here’s a chance to broaden your awareness.  I’ve been reading a brand new garden blog posted by Richard Weber, the very knowledgeable proprietor of Springhouse Gardens, which is a landscape and garden complex located just south of Fayette County on Harrodsburg Rd. Weber and his crew have been winning awards with garden designs and customer-friendly programs, so the blog idea is a natural for him.  Only three entries have been posted so far, but the most recent about finding oriole nests hits a home run with timely, cool and engaging info in the field of garden discoveries. Check it out by clicking HERE.
Many folks are establishing home rain gardens, both as a water feature in the landscape plan and as a way to handle storm water runoff by conserving and spreading out the effect of natural rainfall.Â
Want to learn more about rain gardens? To read Fayette County Master Gardener Sherry Thomas’ review of Rain Gardening in the South, written by horticulturalists Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford from North Carolina State University,  click HERE.
Don’t expect them to stick around here much longer, though. Monarch butterflies, which we are observing as they pass through Kentucky, migrate thousands of miles south this time of year to overwinter in Mexico. You can track their progress at the Journey North Web-site by clicking HERE.
