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The following births were reported by Grady Memorial Hospital:

The following birth was reported by Grady Memorial Hospital:

One of the most cost-effective and dramatic improvements you can make in your landscape is to define your planting beds with retaining walls. Landscape walls can “tie together” your foundation plantings and extend your home visually, enhancing its value and making maintenance easier. They can solve landscape problems such as slopes along the foundation, bringing plantings up level with the house for a more professional look. You can also use them to visually “link” outlying beds such as driveway entrance plantings with the rest of your landscape.

When it comes to avocados, not everyone’s face lights up like mine. I used to wonder what those ‘things’ are. I didn’t know how they were prepared, much less how they tasted. Never did I imagine I would rely on them so much one day!

The following birth was reported by Grady Memorial Hospital:

One of the first signs of spring is the colorful billows of creeping phlox in light blue, white and all shades of pink, creeping along rock gardens and slopes. Creeping phlox is a hardy, dependable groundcover plant that is widely used to suppress weeds on hard-to-mow slopes.

Homeowners who want nice landscaping, but dread maintenance tasks like weeding and mulching, often turn to pebble mulch as a solution. Pebble mulching is the practice of covering landscape beds with weed barrier fabric and then spreading a few inches of pebbles or decorative stone. Stone mulch has been widely used in commercial landscapes for many years, simply because, at least in the beginning, it discourages weeds. Wood mulches need to be renewed every year, but stone mulches can last five years or more before they need to be refreshed.

“Mom, the phone is for you, ” Julia said handing it to me.

By Gloria Yoder

The following birth was reported by Grady Memorial Hospital: