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Westport — Bluebird box training hike offered

WESTPORT — Staff from Mass Audubon’s Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary will lead a bluebird nesting box information and training session on Sunday, Feb. 25, from 1 to 3:00 p.m.

Are you ready for an early spring?

Looks like spring might arrive before we get a chance to complain about winter.

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Seed catalogs have gardeners dreaming of spring

Never too early to start planning for plantings.

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Good-looking ‘bones’ hold garden together

In the winter, your garden should look pretty good naked.

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This New Year, make the best of intentions

Resolutions seem perennially doomed for failure.

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Giving plants as a gift can be tricky

Hypertufa planters, terrariums are good gift ideas.

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Winter-flowering houseplants help clear the air

Houseplants earn their keep as all-natural air fresheners.

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A houseful of plants can cure the end-of-season blues

If you’re feeling the end-of-the-garden-season “funk," surround yourself with indoor plants

There's still time to enjoy fall

Whether it comes in a blaze of leafy glory or looks like summer one day and winter the next, we’re lucky here to have a long and lovely autumn.

The garden shed is a room of a gardener’s own

A garden without a shed is like a bicycle without a basket.