Posts Tagged ‘Gardening’
Courtesy Dallas Arboretum Community Contribution The Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill opens at 1:15 p.m., Oct. 6 at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, adding another feature to the internationally recognized display gardens. The 2-acre site, originally a ravine filled with bamboo and poison ivy, has been transformed into a series of Texas Stream cascades [...]
By Bruce Felps This year’s fall fundraising luncheon organized by the Lakewood Service League benefits the Promise of Peace Community Garden, which works to prevent teen pregnancy and gang involvement among Woodrow students. The fundraiser and social event — dubbed Harvesting Hope — takes place from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Oct. 14, at Victor Tangos restaurant [...]
Community Contribution Fall foliage will be but one attraction this season at the Dallas Arboretum. The botanical gardens opens its Cinderella Pumpkin Village Sept. 17. The display runs through Nov. 23, and features the fleeting beauty’s life-size pumpkin-styled carriage, with topiary horses, awaiting fairytale photo opportunities. The grounds will be filled with more than 50,000 [...]
By Bruce Felps Many a neighborhood association in East Dallas recognizes the Yard of the Month but the Old Lake Highlands group stepped out of the ordinary for its September winner. The OLH Neighborhood Association, in its September newsletter, named the gardens at Hexter Elementary School as its Yard of the Month recipient.
By Bruce Felps Taking a play off the phrase “you are what you eat,” the Hotel Palomar will display a photo exhibit highlighting the work of Promise of Peace Community Garden. The exhibit, titled True, features photos taken by Ky Ngo, who captured the work done by PoP to educate East Dallas kids on the [...]
By Bruce Felps Downing Hill Garden Studio tomorrow runs one in its periodic series of events dedicated to a specific East Dallas neighborhood. The Old Lake Highlands Neighborhood Association gathers for Neighbor Night from 6-9 p.m., July 14, at the Greenville Avenue shop.
By Bruce Felps Most imbibers likely would agree that a margarita, particularly a frozen concoction that helps them hang on, hits the right happy hour spot when the temperatures continually hover at about 100 degrees. East Dallas entrepreneur Anna Brindley conducts a margarita seminar starting at 7 p.m., June 30, at the Downing Hill Garden [...]
By Bruce Felps Elizabeth Dry and her co-conspirators at the Promise of Peace Community Garden treated the community to all manner of okra-intensive culinary creations during Okra Fest, which took place June 18. The afternoon food-drink-and-music party helped raise funds for the nonprofit group’s stated purpose of working to keep kids at Woodrow Wilson High [...]
By Bruce Felps Lessons in the fine art of margarita making take place this month at Downing Hill Garden Studio because gardens grow better when the gardener irrigates him- or herself as well as the soil. East Dallas entrepreneur Anna Brindley conducts the margarita seminar starting at 7 p.m., June 30, at the Lower Greenville [...]
By Bruce Felps Yes, it’s hot out, but you can’t sit in the air-conditioned inside all weekend long. No, you can’t.
