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July 29, 2010

Weekend garden events

Valley View Farms Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; Family Bird Watching Fun: Meet a bird of prey, enjoy a summer snack, and learn how to identify birds as you walk through the different habitats of Irvine Nature Center. Fee: $6 members, $10 non-members. Ages 5 & up with adult.

Carrie Engel of Valley View Farms will show you how to build a green-roof birdhouse Sunday on WBAL-TV in Baltimore during the 9 a.m. news segment.

Inspired by a visit to a grower producing plants for a school's green roof, and by the residents of Edenwald, the Baltimore retirement community, who have installed a partial green roof on a terrace, Carrie decided to take the green roof idea to heart and build one for feathered visitors to the garden.

Photo courtesy of Valley View Farms

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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