| Warm Weather To Greet Flower & Garden Festival
Downtown Leesburg will be transformed into a five-block garden Saturday and Sunday for the 17th rendition of the Leesburg Flower & Garden Festival.The popular garden event has become a top regional draw, pulling about 30,000 visitors to Leesburg during the two-day event. The exhibit is located in the setting of historic Leesburg, which, to many visitors, adds to the allure of the event. Warming weather, with temperatures predicted to reach into the 70s, is expected to add to the garden atmosphere this year.Visitors and vendors alike tend to characterize the festival as a "fun show," in part because of its relaxed pace as buyers wander in and out of the various exhibits and vendor booths, stopping off every now and then to grab a bite to eat from the many and diverse food vendors as well as rest their feet and listen to some great musical entertainment.For those new to the show, there will be a plethora of garden products-landscape displays, trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vines and herbs-as well as garden equipment, tools, statuary and furniture, watering systems, birdhouses and garden art.
Gardeners swap plants and stories at event
Marietta Garden Club members swapped plants Thursday, along with stories about an old friend remembered for her knowledge and love of nature.
Mary Yost passed away Dec. 11, 2005, at the age of 86, taking with her an indispensable amount of knowledge about plant life in Washington County, said her garden club friends. Thursday, they dedicated a spice bush to her memory in Sacra Via Park.
She was like a naturalist; she could identify everything, said Marietta Garden Club president Judy Segall.
Two of Yosts sons, Jean Yost and Linn Yost, and his wife Betty, all of Barlow, were present for the dedication.
I think its great, Linn Yost said of the memorial plaque laid at the base of the spice bush with his mothers name on it.
Yost was remembered as a longtime member of the club and an integral part of creating the nature walking path behind the Washington County Career Center.
Forgotten talent
A FEW months ago a painting by Dame Laura Knight, Storm over our town, Malvern in a thunderstorm, reached a record price in a local auction. It seems until then, Dame Laura's brilliance as a British painter and, in particular, the time she spent in Malvern, had largely been forgotten. Apart from a painting in the Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, The Yellow Dress, there seems little to celebrate the artistic contribution she made to the county, to the celebration of our landscape and the recording of country crafts and craftsmen. .
Pirates, ogres and a Spider-Man highlight spring movie season
"In the Land of Women"-- A romantic drama with Adam Brody as a heartbroken fellow who flees Los Angeles (and the girl who dumped him) for the woods of Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother. There, however, the grandmother and the three women who live across the street work to restore the guy's faith in himself. Meg Ryan and Olympia Dukakis co-star. April 27: "The Invisible"-- A thriller about a guy who may be dead (murdered, actually), and his attempt to solve his crime from some sort of invisible limbo. Justin Chatwin stars. "Next"-- Nicolas Cage can see his own future and must flee intelligence agents who want to employ his skills. Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel co-star for director Lee Tamahori. "Wind Chill"-- A horror flick with Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes as college students whose car breaks down on a rural road, where they're tormented by the region's ghosts.
Fran Sorin, nationally known gardening expert, offers all natural ...
Fran Sorin, a well known gardening expert, the USA Weekend GardenSmart contributor (which reaches 50 million households weekly), a CBS Radio News Contributor, the author of 'Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening" and a garden designer has expanded her highly trafficked website, www.fransorin.com, to include all natural gardening and landscaping tips and design ideas that will help individuals mitigate the effects of envirionmental warming. Fran, who has been a proponent of organic gardening for the past dozen years, feels the public is now thirsty for more information on how to become caretakers of the environment, rather than depleting it. Fran's interest in the ecosystem and environment , particularly on how humans interact with nature, has been a long standing one.
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