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While visiting a friend, Dr. John T. Thornton, a veterinarian and plant enthusiast, Lee saw an R. oldhamii azalea flowering - in July. "I theorized that if I could hybridize this summer-blooming azalea with the cultivars I had been collecting, I might be able to develop a multi-seasonal evergreen azalea." From the innumerable seedlings that survived, Lee selected plants for repeat blooms, desirable forms, tolerance to environmental and pest stressors, viable root systems, and ease of propagation. At Transcend Nursery in South Louisiana, Lee crosses cultivars and tends blooms to develop azaleas with exceptional root systems and growth habits. [Extracted from the article]

"ANNIE AND I DIDN'T REALLY like it when we walked in", explains Connor Carroll, recalling the couple's first visit (back when they were dating) to the 1950s ranch-style house that's now their home. Annie found the pair of robin's-egg blue china cabinets at the Nashville Flea Market, and Connor salvaged the table from an old apartment rental. Here are Annie and Connor's six best tips Connor and Annie received a $500 electricity bill and had to replace the windows right away. [Extracted from the article]

The article features a home garden owned and developed by Fennel Mauldin in Leighton, Alabama. Topics covered include information on the 100-year-old home purchased by Mauldin from his great-grandmother in the 1970s, his decision to collaborate with gardener Anthony Brewington, and their approaches that have made the garden unique.

The article focuses on the gardening by Georgia and Crawford Downs on their 600-square-foot plot in backyard of their home in Birmingham, Alaska and discusses the three key ways he achieves vegetable-gardening success in his backyard. Topics include choosing plants that produce early, in the middle of the season, and the three key ways include vertigal integration, everything in its place and making boxes of no more than 4 feet wide, enough for two rows of plants.

The article offers suggestion on gardening by gardening specialist Anthony Brewington. It informs that planting of ajuga that spreads purple foliage onto pathway offers beautiful look to garden, while mentions pots introduce color into nooks and crannies. it mentions color and texture of these ‘Blue Ice' Arizona cypresses contrast so well with the semi-glossy boxwoods.

The article discusses the Daffodil flower exhibition of the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV) held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, Virginia in 2017. Topics discussed include the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV) which is affiliated with the American Daffodil Society (ADS); the GCV's Daffodil Show awards and comments of Anne Donnell Smith, an ADS horticultural judge, for the show.

The article discusses the architectural design of a house in Texas designed by architect William Curtis and interior designers Phoebe Howard and Lindsay Plyler.

The article offers tips for cutting down expenses for traveling during holiday seasons. Topics discussed include making homemade gifts or taking family to tour for the holidays; travelling to home week before or after the actual holiday of Thanksgiving; and making feel parents feel special ad sharing love with them.

The article offers information on renovation of a house in New Orleans, Louisiana by designer Shaun Smith, discussing the use of china and glassware in the dining room, the changes to the paint of the living room, and the exterior of the house.

The article offers suggestions for encouraging family members for reading during summer. Topics include tips like start the summer with a special event, by offering books to children; building a tent in the backyard for reading; organizing a picnic or a hike and reading at the destination point with trail mix; and creating a book reading club.

The article discusses importance of clothing sizes along with clothing industry's standards and practices for it. Topics discussed include standards for women's-apparel sizing released by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1958, comments from patternmaker Kathleen Fasanella regarding strategy of brands such as Express and Lane Bryant to develop sizes to fit the women who buy their clothes and the ThirdLove mobile application to determine optimum bra style, band size and cup size.

The article offers suggestions for mothers to prepare their children for school after summer vacations. Topics discussed include putting school calendar, nurse's number, and keywords in mobile phone; views of family physician Deborah Gilboa on the importance of parent-child communication to prevent bullying and bad attitudes; and do not stress about dinner, vocabulary skills, and first-day picture of children.

1 MARCH 16 Get a lesson in proportion from Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci in the 'Art Into Fashion' exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, featuring 80 of his [...]

PREVENTION TIP: "Trim tree limbs back 5 or 6 feet from the roofline", says Whitman Wesley, vice president of Athena Pest Control in Mountain Brook, Alabama. ELECTRICAL TIP: "Before you call an electrician, check to see if the bulb is burned out", advises Villanueva. GUTTER TIP: Ludemann suggests having a professional help you choose which rooflines to gutter. PLUMBING TIP: "When buying a house, always get a sewer inspection", Holzhauer says. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses efforts of gardener Rodger Winn to grow heirloom tomatoes in his garden with special care resulting in high yield of tomatoes and mentions superiority in flavor of his fruits.

In this article, the author narrates her personal story of a Christmas stocking scandal in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The article offer behavioroural sugessions at workplace that are annooying to a coworker. Topics discussed include having patiensce when a coworkers is expressing his ideas, sending unnecessary emails to coworkers, being negative at workplace puts weight to one's coworker, and collective intelligence of a group of women being more than that of group of man.