Garden & Farm

Beautiful evening for sipping and sauntering

Chris Flood
3 years ago
With a nice breeze, low humidity, warm temperatures and clear skies, Delaware Botanic Gardens...

Milton Garden Club to exhibit at Tour 684 July 2

3 years ago
The Milton Garden Club and Kathryn's Treasures will both participate during Tour 684 from 3 to 7 p...

Delmarva Chicken Association awards four community...

3 years ago
Delmarva Chicken Association recently presented awards to four people – Rep. Andy Harris, Dr. Steve...

Easy ways to propagate woody shrubs and perennials

Michael Zajic
3 years ago
Now is an ideal time to propagate garden plants, especially woody types. Propagation is easy with...

Annual sunflowers have 5,000-year history

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
Americans seem to always seek new horizons, new adventures and new places to live. Why else would...

Mill Pond Garden to spotlight high summer color June 27

3 years ago
Mill Pond Garden will celebrate the high summer garden’s mainstays – hydrangeas, phlox and lilies...

Lewes in Bloom awards Beauty Spot for June

3 years ago
Lorna Dempsey is the Lewes in Bloom Beauty Spot Award winner for June. Her garden on Johnson Avenue...

Tackling Invasives in Your Backyard program set June 23

3 years ago
The Inland Bays Garden Center will present Tackling Invasives in Your Backyard, a mini program,...

Farm and garden tour raises $3,500 to fight food...

3 years ago
The 2021 Cape Farm and Garden Tour held June 5 raised $3,500 from ticket sales. Proceeds will go to...

Sussex farm family receives Delaware Secretary’s...

3 years ago
With COVID restrictions in place earlier this year, the annual presentation of the Secretary’s...

Brilliant orange Marmalade Skies rose is an easy-to...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
Some of the most creative ideas come from kids. When most 3-year-olds draw a picture of their...

Cover crop cost-share applications due July 30

3 years ago
Applications for the Sussex Conservation District cover crop cost-share program will be accepted...

Milton Garden Club to host plant sale June 19

3 years ago
The Milton Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale during the rescheduled Horseshoe Crab and...

Manage mosquitoes and enjoy spending more time outdoors

Melinda Myers
3 years ago
Dine, play and enjoy your outdoor spaces more than ever this year by managing annoying and disease-...

Ag Lab traveling classroom to visit June 18 barbecue...

3 years ago
The Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation Ag Lab traveling classroom will be at the Delmarva Chicken...

Snail vine is a flower that even children can grow

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
They are the terror of the garden with the most teeth of any animal. Even though a snail’s mouth is...

Artists exhibit work at Inland Bays Garden Center

3 years ago
The Inland Bays Garden Center has announced its current exhibiting artists. Art is the perfect way...

Frozen Farmer hosts fundraising dinner for Sussex...

3 years ago
The Frozen Farmer on Evans Farm in Bridgeville entertained 150 guests at its May 22 farm-to-table...

Children’s Learning Garden activities return June 21

3 years ago
After a year’s hiatus due to the COVID virus, the Lewes in Bloom Children’s Learning Garden will...

East Coast Garden Center summer classes to start...

3 years ago
East Coast Garden Center announced its summer 2021 classes will be held in person from 9 to 10 a.m...

All tomatoes are classified as either determinate or...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
A sucker can be a lollipop, a bottom-dwelling fish, or even a human. A person who is easily...

Freedom Boat Club sponsors Lewes in Bloom Lighthouse...

3 years ago
Freedom Boat Club is proud to be the sponsor for the Lighthouse Garden on Freeman Highway. This is...

June 5 visitors to see unusual plants at Mill Pond...

3 years ago
Mill Pond Garden is one of three venues featuring special and unusual plants in the Cape Farm and...

Lewes in Bloom awards first Beauty Spot of 2021

3 years ago
Lewes in Bloom recently presented its first Beauty Spot award for the season. The Bay Ridge Woods...

Lower Shore Land Trust pollinator garden tour set...

3 years ago
The Lower Shore Land Trust will hold its inaugural tour of nine polliator-friendly gardens across...

Community garden plants native species to attract...

3 years ago
Monarch Nursery recently donated a demonstration pollinator garden using native plants to Lewes...

Back to the Fuchsia is bred from native wildflowers

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
The script was rejected over 40 times. There was a concern that moviegoers wouldn't want to see a...

RSC Landscaping donates greenhouse to Sussex Consortium

3 years ago
RSC Landscaping, East Coast Garden Center, has generously donated a greenhouse to the Sussex...

Milton Garden Club to host plant sale May 29

3 years ago
After a year off because of the pandemic, the Milton Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale...

Tour to feature Shimizu private garden in Lewes June 5

3 years ago
The old-town Lewes garden of Holly and Osamu Shimizu is one of three venues that will be featured...

Villages of Five Points Butterfly Club holds...

3 years ago
The May 15 plant sale to benefit the Villages of Five Points Butterfly Club yielded more than $500...

Bobola Farm & Florist to host Strawberry Festival...

3 years ago
The Delaware Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee will host its 11th Annual...

Broadkill Farmers Market to kick off May 28

Ryan Mavity
3 years ago
A new farmers market is coming to downtown Milton starting at 4 p.m., Friday, May 28. Broadkill...

Strawberry Fields Gomphrena has masses of gorgeous...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
John Lennon thought one song was his best work when he wrote and sang with the Beatles. When he was...

Delaware Botanic Gardens guests donate items for...

3 years ago
During the recent Earth Day and Mother’s Day celebrations, 400 Delaware Botanic Gardens guests...

Teach a Person to Fish teams with Lewes Community...

3 years ago
The Lewes Community Garden announced it has welcomed Teach a Person to Fish Society into its family...

Mill Pond Garden to host open day May 20

3 years ago
Mill Pond Garden’s open day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, May 20, will celebrate...

Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation holds 5K Milk Run/Walk 

3 years ago
More than 100 supporters participated in the Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation’s 8th annual 5K Milk...

All parts of dandelions are edible: leaves, flowers...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
Raising doves was once quite common. Rock doves, or rock pigeons, came to North America from Europe...

Specialty crop grant applications due May 26

3 years ago
The Delaware Department of Agriculture has received an additional round of funding to enhance the...

Lewes celebrates Arbor Day with planting in the park

3 years ago
Taking part in the City of Lewes May 1 Arbor Day tree planting are (l-r) Sen. Ernie Lopez, R-Lewes...

Delaware Nature Society launches search for...

3 years ago
Anne Harper, executive director of Delaware Nature Society, announced she will be retiring as of...

Governor’s agricultural and urban conservation award...

3 years ago
A virtual ceremony held April 29 marked the annual Governor’s Agricultural and Urban Conservation...

Cape Farm and Garden Tour to benefit food pantries...

3 years ago
The Cape Farm and Garden Tour 2021 will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday,...

Holland Mills and Anthem neighbors clean up road in...

3 years ago
On a bright and breezy Saturday morning in Milton, two neighborhoods came together in celebration...

Lewes fire auxiliary to host Mother’s Day plant sale...

3 years ago
The Lewes Fire Department Auxiliary will hold a Mother’s Day plant sale from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.,...

With its pleasant fragrance, lesser calamint is a...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
Some names just beg the question of why? Before the town was even built, a surveyor plotted out...

Chicken farming manual published in Vietnamese,...

3 years ago
Delmarva Chicken Association is publishing its reference manual for vegetative environmental...

Botanic gardens offers free Mother’s Day entry

3 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, with free...

Mill Pond Garden offers Mother’s Day tours May 9

3 years ago
Everyone loves flowers. They bring a bland green garden alive with color. Most people put flowering...

Milton Garden Club to offer plants, raffles at Tour...

3 years ago
The Milton Garden Club will be a vendor at the new Tour 684 event to be held from 3 to 7 p.m., the...

Botanic gardens’ Earth Day visitors donate to food bank

3 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens held an Earth Day donation drive offering free admission that resulted in...

Lewes in Bloom sponsors May Day flower event

3 years ago
Lewes in Bloom has announced the winners of its inaugural Lewes May Day celebration. Lewes...

Beit Alpha kibbutz cucumber is early, sweet, smooth...

Paul Barbano
3 years ago
The beauty of a mixed garden is similar to the beauty of a mixed population of humans. As humans,...

Conservation stewardship applications due April 30

3 years ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service in Delaware is...

Botanic gardens hosts Frolic in the Folly

Chris Flood
3 years ago
The Delaware Botanic Gardens recently hosted a Frolic in the Folly, and while the weather was a...

Reuse and recycle materials to benefit home gardens

3 years ago
Mary Louise Lauffer of Lewes shared some of the ways she recycles and reuses items to reduce waste...

Beloved purple martins return to Delaware

3 years ago
In a sure sign that spring was not far behind, the first purple martins of the year were spotted in...

Lewes to recognize Arbor Day with tree planting...

3 years ago
The City of Lewes has been honored by the Arbor Day Foundation with a Tree City USA designation for...

Pimentos are mild or very slightly hot peppers

Paul Barbano
4 years ago
For many of us, Jack Benny sums up golf, “Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner,...