Home and garden
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.

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.

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 ...

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.

P-I Gift Guide: Kitchens gifts and cookbooks
We have ideas for some great cookbooks and other presents that won't break your holiday budget.

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.

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.

James, Cavaliers rolling along
By TOM WITHERS While he teases New York's voracious media and desperate Knicks fans about his free-agent future, LeBron James and his current team have become an NBA powerhouse. The Cleveland Cavaliers are rolling like never before. At 14-3, they're off to the best start in franchise history. Undefeated through nine home games, the Cavs have won 13 of 14 - their best stretch since 1989 - and ...

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.

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

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.

Surviving the Recession with LED holiday lights
From the home of Congress to your home, holiday spirit is probably taking over. And with cash tight for many of us this year, surviving the recession could mean less of an investment in decorating our homes.

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 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.

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.

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 [...]

Vicky Hamilton killer Peter Tobin: Background
It was the news Michael Hamilton had waited for and yet never wanted to hear. On November 12 2007, police searching the garden of a Kent home found the remains of his daughter Vicky.