What's hot in the garden for 2008

[bossgard]

Though this might be of interest to others, it was published in the Seattle Times
(Seattle, WA-USA) recently:

WHAT?S HOT IN THE GARDEN FOR 2008 (Hint: Think green)
Beef up the patio. Hold the chemicals. And garnish the yard with high-performing, low-work plants and a dash of organically grown vegetables.
That?s the menu of gardening trends as we head into 2008.
Here?s a quick look ahead to what?s in and what?s out on the gardening scene.
WHAT?S IN:               WHAT?S OUT:
*Anything ?natural? or ?organic.?      *Chemical sprays.
*Composting yard waste.         *Bagging leaves and grass clippings.      
*Recyclable rice pots.                     *Plastic pots.   
*Native and no-spray plants.          *Non-native plants that might become
*Compact, low maintenance plants.      invasive.
*Plants with long-lasting blooms,      *Plants that take a lot of pruning and
   colorful leaves and          spraying.
   multi-season interest.         *Boring or ?two-week wonder? plants
*Varied plantings aimed at attracting      that don?t change with the seasons.
   birds, bees and butterflies.      *Big lawns and the same old new plant
*Lots of landscape color, especially      types that everyone else has.
   orange, gold, mango and         *Bland beds with little more than boxed
   similar ?warm? colors.              or balled evergreens.
*Rain barrels and conserving water.          *Running sprinklers indiscriminately.
*Rain gardens                             *Piping rainwater ASAP into the gutters.
*Do-it-yourself landscape projects                          *Hiring a company to do entire landscape
   (at least the planting part)      improvements from A to Z.
*More elaborate and fully furnished                       * A basic concrete patio or deck with a
   patios.               table and standalone grill.
*Small-scale, organically grown home                     *Large vegetable gardens that take a lot of
   vegetable and herb gardens.      digging, hoeing, weeding, etc.
*Container gardening, including changing
   the plantings throughout the four
   seasons.                     *Packing all the flower pots away at the
*Pondless water features (moving water    end of October.
   empties into a vault instead         *Free-formed, hand-dug, clean-out-once-
   of a surface pond).            a year water gardens.
*Sweeping, curved garden beds.                 *Squared-off garden bed.   

Any comments. - Toby

[bossgard]

Sorry, my first time at posting a new topic! My copy sure got changed in layout. Someone what to tell me why? - Toby

[ideasguy]

You did OK. You picked a difficult one to start with, thats all!
The data you copied was in a Table on a web page Toby. Is that correct?
If so, you lose the table formatting when you paste into this forum.
Instead of everything being nicely aligned, it goes haywire.

I'll play around with it and see if I can reformat it for you
Youll notice there is a Table option above the editbox when you are posting a message?
 

Update: 1st attempt didnt work. I'll play some more with it later, or perhaps someone else would like to have a go?

Heres an example of a NEW table:

a	b	c
row2col1	row2col2	row2col3

[bossgard]

George: First of all, what an embarrassing moment for me when I saw what happened. Now I know why people are reluctant to post to this or any other Forum. I had to turn my computer off, walk around outside in my yard, and "kick b---", first yours, then my computers, and then me. And then repeat in a different order. Actually I think I know what happened. I retyped the copy into M/S Office Word, and then copy and pasted like i had done others to the Forum. The second vertical column 'What's Out' I did not marginate, just tried to tabulate as even as I good. I probably should have used a publisher's two column template or something. I have a good print out in front of me, would it do any good to send the Word document to you via e-mail like I did the Dahlia picture. I'm here to learn, and thanks for your patience. - Toby

[ideasguy]

No need to be embarassed. From the email youve sent me, I can now see that the data uses simple tabs to align the data (I thought it was tables at first)

I'll have a look at the forum settings tmorrow and see if there is something I can do.

Dont hesitate to post more messages. Just try copying and pasting simple text, or typing messages from scratch, or posting links to web pages- the source of data.