Botanical Gardens and Arboretums
Visit a botanical garden to relax and gather ideas for your own garden at these area locations. Many of the gardens provide information and tips for growing plants and flowers in Kansas.
Lawn and Garden
Covering topics ranging from what plants grow best in Kansas to how to bring your garden indoors. Our Lawn and Garden librarian and bloggers connect you to library resources and services that are sure to sprout a new idea. Plus, use our online index of lawn and garden magazines and databases.
Recent Lawn and Garden Blog Posts
Lawn and Garden Magazines
Magazines are a great source for ideas and tips related to maintaining your lawn and garden. Read more to find out what magazines the library owns that you may check out.
The history of food – try your hand at some historic recipes
I’ve recently become interested in the history of food – why have we eaten certain foods at certain times in our American and world history, and what does it all mean? Happily, our library carries a number of titles that answer these and other questions. In the time before Thanksgiving and other holidays it’s a [...]
The New Terrarium
Remember the old terrariums way back when? Well, they are popular again and with that popularity comes a new book by Tovah Martin entitled The New Terrarium. Martin is a well known author and is a contributor to Culivating Flowers on PBS. When plants live in an enclosed space, they thrive with very little care [...]
Gardening in a Container
If you love to garden, then you probably have container gardens as well. I love to use container gardens as they provide me the flexibility to try different plants that otherwise I could not grow. A new book, The Container Gardener’s Bible by Joanna K. Harrison is quite good. There are many stunning photographs of different plants [...]
February is the time to Garden?
I have been getting many gardening catalogs lately which really makes me want to go out and start digging in my garden. However, it is only February which is just way to cold to do anything in the garden. So, I went online and found the most interesting website/blog http://awaytogarden.com/ This website is written by Margaret [...]
Spectacular Standouts
Every Christmas I have at least one amaryllis blooming in my house. This year I have two pink ones and they are just beautiful. With their big spectacular flowers, and their green foliage amaryllis is perfect for Christmas. My problem is how to make the bulb rebloom. I have looked in many gardening books as [...]
Y’all Come Eat
Y’all Come Eat by Jamie and Bobby Deen is the Deen brothers’ second cookbook, and in it they share their easiest, all-time favorite recipes. This book has recipes for weeknight and Sunday suppers, tailgating, entertaining, picnicing, and desserts for all occasions. There are photos of the finished products as well as behind-the-scenes photos of the [...]
Gourmet Bird Food Recipes
For all the bird owners out there, I would like to recommend a wonderful book called Gourmet Bird Food Recipes. I purchased this book in 2005 when it was first published and have been using the recipes in it ever since. My cockatiel, Piper, pictued below, particularly loves the Flight-Worthy Muffins, and I thought I [...]
The Very Best Treats to Bake and Share
The newest cookbook from Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart’s Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and Share, is devoted to cookies of all kinds. It is divided into seven parts: light and delicate, soft and chewy, crumbly and sandy, chunky and nutty, cakey and tender, crisp and crunchy, and rich and dense. Each recipe is [...]
Stirred Not Shaken
Sorry, Bond, but according to Christian Preda, a bartender at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, the classic martini is stirred, not shaken. The latter waters down the gin. Christian’s recipe recently appeared in Martha Stewart Living magazine along with many other how-to’s. Here is his recipe: Fill a pint glass with ice. Add 6 ounces of [...]
