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May 7, 2012
The Dallas Arboretum's Winfrey Point-Attacking Botanist Had a Rough Weekend
Late on Friday, we passed along a letter from the Dallas Arboretum celebrating an agreement with White Rock Lake neighbors that allows the city to turn the grasslands of Winfrey Point into a temporary parking lot. It was a strange missive to begin with -- a botanical garden celebrating its ability ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Dallas Arboretum and City Hall Want You to Know: Winfrey Point Ain't Paradise, And They're Not Paving it Anyway
After an agreement was reached earlier to let the city mow the wild grass at Winfrey Point, both City Hall and the Arboretum have come out firing PR-wise, trying to turn the tide of support for keeping cars off of the "prairie." Below you'll find releases sent by both City Hall, which swears it's g ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Arboretum Chases Away Holiday Blues
After an agreement was reached earlier to let the city mow the wild grass at Winfrey Point, both City Hall and the Arboretum have come out firing PR-wise, trying to turn the tide of support for keeping cars off of the "prairie." Below you'll find releases sent by both City Hall, which swears it's g ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Deep Ellum Urban Gardens Could be Hours Away from a Big Donation
Dallas girl Lindsey Cook is in a tight race with Mary Edwards from California as the fan favorite in the Aetna Healthy Food Fight -- a fight that could mean a nice influx of cash for the Deep Ellum Urban Gardens. In case you missed it, through a contest at the State Fair, Cook was chosen to go to N ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
The Deep Ellum Urban Garden Needs a Little Push
Proposed DUG Community GardenA few weeks ago we told you about the Deep Ellum Urban Garden (DUG) fundraising project via Crowdtilt.com. Here's a recap: Through the Deep Ellum Community Association, DUG is trying to raise $25,000 to create a community garden in Deep Ellum. However, they're ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Deep Ellum Urban Garden Needs Help, and Gets Some, In Effort to Raise Some Green
A couple of weeks back we noted: The Deep Ellum Community Association is in desperate need of seed money to plant a long-in-the-works urban garden at Canton and Good-Latimer -- $25,000, to be precise, for such things as benches, fences, tools and, ya know, plants. Hence their fund-raising efforts ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
The DFW Truck Farm, Rolling to a Restaurant Near You
Trust me, it's more impressive when it's filled with living produceThere's more to the State Fair of Texas than deep fried my little pony turds, you know. If you find your way past the funnel cakes, Cuban sandwiches and fried beer, you might stumble on the DFW Truck Farm. The pickup truck out ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Deep Ellum Community Association Needs Some Seed Money to Plant an Urban Garden
What you see at right is the urban garden the Deep Ellum Community Association would like to plant on this lot at Canton and Good-Latimer. The idea isn't new: In December 2009 we wrote about DECA's attempt to green up Deep Ellum, and initially they'd looked at planting on the site of the old Rock ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
After Years of Letting Central Expressway's Green Go Brown, Council's About to Vote on Fix
Texas FreewayFrom the in-box, this from one good Friend of Unfair Park: "What the h is going on with the landscaping on Central? Is TxDOT letting everything die? It looks like crap."Good question(s). And I have the answer.First, let's flashback to a meeting of the city council's Transportation an ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Yet Again, City Staff Plants Seeds of Dissention With Latest Community Gardening Proposal
City Hall's attempts to regulate community gardening in Dallas is the story that won't go away: As I mentioned at the bottom of the budget item on Friday, the council's Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the issue tomorrow -- this'll be the sixth proposal to go before ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Who's Got The Herb?
City Hall's attempts to regulate community gardening in Dallas is the story that won't go away: As I mentioned at the bottom of the budget item on Friday, the council's Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the issue tomorrow -- this'll be the sixth proposal to go before ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
Council Committee Approves New "Prairie Look" For Central Expressway
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council's Tra ... More >>
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March 4, 2010
Ferdinand's Utopia
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council's Tra ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Planting Lilies
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council's Tra ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Herb Appeal
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council's Tra ... More >>
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May 7, 2009
One Benefit of Having Urban Chickens? They Manufacture Some Great Garden Fertilizer.
Courtesy Leslie Finical HalleckThis would be Leslie's Polish hen Phyllis. Friend of the show Leslie Halleck is a horticulturist of some renown who chronicles her "Adventures in Urban Organic Gardening..." on her blog GrowLively. She's also general manager at North Haven Gardens and a veggie test-gar ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
For Sale
The Heard becomes a spring plant marketplace
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February 26, 2009
Sir Sperry
Meet with the guru of Lone Star gardens
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February 20, 2009
Simple Green
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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April 3, 2008
Garden State
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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February 21, 2008
An Arlington Soldier Killed in Iraq Was Buried Yesterday in Arlington National Cemetery
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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October 11, 2007
Dallas Top Model Discovers Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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June 21, 2007
We All Fall Down
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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May 18, 2007
You Know How I Know You're Gay? You Live in Dallas.
Organic is everywhere these days--and we don't mean in restaurants. If you attend Organic Day at Northaven Gardens tomorrow (Feb.21,) you can find it in your own backyard. Literally. At the garden center, Patti Moreno, aka. the Garden Girl, sustainable living expert and host of Garden Girl TV, wil ... More >>
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May 10, 2007
Sappy Feet
We thought shoes kept dirt out
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July 13, 2006
Painted Petals
Warren's realistic works really bloom
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September 22, 2005
Fall Out
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February 24, 2005
Stormy Weather
Get the know-how to spot and dodge
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October 14, 2004
Best Place for a Walk in August
Dallas Arboretum Fern Dell
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October 14, 2004
Best Garden Store
Smith & Hawken
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October 14, 2004
Best Herb
Redentas Organic Gardening Center
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October 14, 2004
Best Yard Art
Big Mango Trading Co.
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October 14, 2004
Best Florist
Dr Delphinium Designs & Events
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October 14, 2004
Best Place to Buy Smokes and Roses
Greenville Ave. Tobacco Co. & Flowerama
Music
September 9, 2004
Incubus and the Walkmen
Tuesday, September 14
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June 3, 2004
Grow Your Own
Texas Discovery Gardens knows the rules of attraction
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April 15, 2004
Sky High
Supercross riders make leaps of faith--or craziness
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March 4, 2004
Swing By
A License to Drive
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January 29, 2004
Doctor's In
It's easy being green
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September 25, 2003
Best Wine Flight Thingamajig
Mercy
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September 25, 2003
Best (Faux) Flower Arrangements
Silks Abloom
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June 13, 2002
Blooming Wonder
Darden Smith's gifts are on full display on Sunflower
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April 11, 2002
Free of Expression
Two phases of John Alexander's work show what happens when an expressionist loses the fire
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September 20, 2001
Best Place to Score Some Herb
Dallas Farmer's Market
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September 21, 2000
Best scenic drive
Van Zandt County
Music
July 2, 1998
Harvest time
With rake in one hand and guitar in the other, Cheri Knight gets down on the farm
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March 5, 1998
Events for the week
With rake in one hand and guitar in the other, Cheri Knight gets down on the farm
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October 30, 1997
Swiss Misses
A tempest in a teacup over azaleas erupts into a class war in Dallas' Swiss Avenue Historic District
Culture
January 4, 1996
Out from under the covers
Dallas artist's quilts warm the soul, not the bed
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April 20, 1995
Dead on arrival
Circumstances surrounding the Deadhead documentary Tie-Died reveal the film's mistaken premise
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