TOP 100 GARDENING SITES
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| Carriage convert: Woman knew old building was just her style ST. LOUIS -- DiAnne Myers loves horses, to be sure. But it really wasn’t the love of horses that drove the St. Louis woman to buy a converted carriage house in the historic Soulard neighborhood six years ago. There was something artsy and unique about it, explains Myers, a piano teacher with 60 children on her teaching roster. pantagraph.com |
Sound all around: How to maximize your surround-sound experience FRESNO, Calif. -- Darrel Graef of Friant, Calif., remembers the time when he converted the garage at his previous home into “a little movie house.†pantagraph.com |
International Real Estate: A Historic Scottish Castle Becomes a Home John Macaskill, a banker now based in New York, and Ian Simpson, a Scottish farmer, have rebuilt a 16th-century tower as a holiday home for Mr. Macaskill’s family or as many as 12 paying guests. feeds.nytimes.com |
Faded Glory: Polishing Flint’s Jewels While many neighborhoods in Flint, Mich., feel all but abandoned, in Carriage Town a group of persistent residents have restored dozens of Victorian-era houses. feeds.nytimes.com |
British earthworms pushed out by European species Octagonaltailed worm or Dendrobaena octaedra is one of the most common British earthworms but is facing a turf war with European species because of climate change. telegraph.co.uk |