INSIDE & OUT/HOME & GARDEN NEWS

0 Comments | Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), Apr 3, 2003

Home show boasts blooming ideas

The lower level of the Chapel Hills Mall, including the ice arena, will be transformed into a haven for home decorators and gardeners this weekend.

The Housing & Building Association of Colorado Springs' home and garden show will feature more than 200 vendors, displays and seminars. Gardens will be set up and booths will have information and demonstrations on the latest products. Kids also can have their photo taken with the Easter Bunny.

Admission is free. Hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.

For information, call 592-1800 or log on to www.cshba.com.

Learn better by 'Trowel & Error'

Gardener Sharon Lovejoy claims she has more kitchen tools than gardening tools in her potting shed. She can find uses for ladles, knives, spoons, forks, an apple corer and even barbecue tongs, she says.

She shares those ideas and more in "Trowel & Error" (Workman, $13.95 in bookstores). She'll also tell you how to grow fruit in old bottles, cure mildew, and deter pests (hang hotel soaps from your fruit tree branches to repel deer).

Lovejoy even did the book's charming illustrations. A woman of many talents.

Natural landscaper speaks

Natural landscape pioneer Leslie Jones Sauer will discuss "Design as if the Future Really Matters" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Packard Hall, on the southwest corner of Cascade Avenue and Cache La Poudre Street.

Sauer's talk is the ninth in the "Landscape and the Built Environment" 2002-03 lecture series at Colorado College. Sauer is an expert in the field of restoring and managing native landscapes and has directed the re-establishment of natural systems in a wide range of sensitive, degraded and developed environments.

She also wrote "The Once and Future Forest: A Guide to Forest Restoration Strategies."

The event is free; no tickets or reservations are required.

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