Living / Home & Garden

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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URI Master Gardeners work on Barrington's 'TV home'

Volunteers help with This Old House's project near Barrington Beach

A small group of URI Master Gardeners offered their expertise recently at a Barrington home that's being featured on the popular television show, This Old House.

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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

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Backyard hens are ‘part of the family’

Sam and Dorothy Abram extoll the benefits of raising chickens

Sam and Dorothy Abram are members of a select group. The Bowden Street residents are among the seven families in Barrington where chickens are not relegated to the roaster pan or barbecue spit. The Abrams took advantage of the town council’s decision earlier this year that allows residents to keep up to six hens in their backyards.

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.