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Home and garden events in the Bay Area

Garden 'disappears' in landslide
A man describes the moment half of his garden disappeared in a landslide.

San Jose's beloved Rose Garden back in bloom
In a ceremony Tuesday night, San Jose's Municipal Rose Garden was officially let out of the doghouse by the board of the All-America Rose Selections, which had placed the garden on probation.

Royal Palm sells 99 home lots for $5.4M
Taylor Morrison of Florida Inc. purchased 99 home lots at a Winter Garden subdivision from a subsidiary of Royal Palm Homes for $5.4 million.

Frenchtown Neighborhood Doesn't Want Garden Parties
Revitalization for Tallahassee's Frenchtown included a nice, new neighborhood to attract nice homeowners. But now those homeowners say the very group that's supposed to lead the revitalization are sabotaging the efforts with a garden party.

Snag your apple trees at the Peace Garden
When other folks are planting flower bulbs for spring blooms, the Johnny Appleseeds among us are planting apple trees. A good place to get them is the Peace Garden at Pisgah View Apartments. On Sat., Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon, you can dig up and take home an apple tree for $35. It?s the garden?s ?Dig Days,? and partners Bob White and Bill Whipple claim it?s a way to diversify your 401K ? not ...

Hamburg Garden Club?s Annual Tour of Homes Sunday Afternoon
The Hamburg Garden Club's Christmas tour of homes will be Sunday, December 7, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Homes on the tour are those of Mr. and Mrs. Rob Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Joey Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith. The Hamburg Garden Center will be open for refreshments.

Sale and rent family's home anger
A couple who sold their home to a firm so they could rent it back find themselves with no money and living in a council flat.

Garden Hills principal: Teacher will be greatly missed
CHAMPAIGN ? Venita Hubbard was a talented teacher, passionate about her profession and warm and caring toward her students ? someone with a "teacher's heart," said her principal at Garden Hills Elementary School, Cheryl O'Leary. The school's staff and students were grieving Mrs. Hubbard on Monday after she was killed in an accident on her way to school.

Duke looked right at home in Purdue win
Duke's win Tuesday over No. 9 Purdue was a rare, early road test. Jeff Goodman says the Blue Devils passed with flying colors.

French-chateau style Scafiddi home on tour
Mike and Darlene Scafiddi bought the stately home at 1644 Smiley Heights Drive in 2007.

Garden Party
The Women?s Home in Montrose has branched out.

Home & Garden Calendar
Send items for the home and garden calendar to Polly McDaniel at pmcdaniel@CITIZEN-TIMES.com two weeks before the event. Or mail to McDaniel, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802.

Man fined for allowing cannabis to be smoked in home
DAD Jeffrey Lord turned from forklift truck driver to old fashioned copper when he discovered his son was growing cannabis in the back garden, a court heard.

John W. Patterson
GARDEN CITY - John William Patterson, 85, died Dec. 1, 2008, at his home, Garden City. He was born O ...

Christmas home tour benefit
The Hot Springs Council of Garden Clubs is sponsoring a Christmas tour of three beautifully decorated homes in Hot Springs . The tour will take place on Lotus Loop and Montclair Place off Shady Grove Road. The homes will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. each day.

Spring Branch welcomes The Women?s Home to neighborhood
Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday

Christmas home tour this Sunday
Before Betty and Alan Knowles built their Bluewater Line home, they used to attend the Wallaceburg Christmas home tour for inspiration. This year the Knowles [...]

Update on Daphne's Garden
It has been just a little over two months since I planted my vegetable garden. The garden has grown better than I would have imagined! Since planting the garden on September 23rd, 2008 all of the vegetables have grown tremendously with minimal effort.

Elliott Murphy comes home with some European flair
Elliott Murphy was born on Long Island, grew up in Garden City, and has roots on the East End, so his appearance next week at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, when he will perform in a duet with guitarist Olivier Durand on Friday, December 12, is a homecoming from all sorts of angles.