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Free veggie garden class in Layton on Saturday

LAYTON -- Weber Basin's Water Conservation Learning Garden, 2837 E. Highway 193, will host a class on vegetable gardening at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Nikki Thompson holds her 6-month-old son, Cache, as they look at track car toys Friday at the Standard-Examiner-sponsored 2012 Spring Home & Garden Show at the Golden Spike Event Center in Ogden. Butler Home Products makes the toy. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Ideas aplenty at Home & Garden show today, Sunday

OGDEN — Whether you’re looking to install energy-efficient windows, want to learn how to stain your own fence or just want to save a few bucks on groceries, the Spring Home & Garden Show has plenty of ideas and offers.

Tour open for Brigham City summer gardens

BRIGHAM CITY -- A pleasant evening visiting Brigham City yards is planned for 6 p.m. until dusk today as Spade and Hope Garden Club presents its annual summer garden tour.

Five local homeowners have opened their yards for the evening and may be visited in any order, with tickets available at each location. Tickets are $5 per person or $8 per couple.

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Dori Jones, manager of the Ogden Botanical Gardens, tends to the raised vegetable beds on Monday in Ogden. Cooler than normal weather and heavy rainfall have slowed the production of vegetables in many people’s gardens; however, cooler weather crops such as lettuce are flourishing.

Home gardens get slow start this year

OGDEN -- Hold the chips. Your backyard salsa garden won't be producing until later than usual in this weird weather season.

The cool, wet spring hasn't hurt cold-weather crops, such as peas and cabbage. But warm-weather plants like tomatoes and peppers sit stunted and semi-dormant, waiting for nature to turn up the heat.

Davis residents can recycle Christmas trees

LAYTON -- For those ready to finally finish their after-Christmas cleaning and get rid of the old tree still in the front room, help is on the way.

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Plots in the Fresenius garden in Ogden have been sectioned off for employees to plant their own produce.

Fresenius Medical Care gives employees a garden spot

OGDEN -- While many businesses have perks like free coffee, Fresenius Medical Care has come up with something a little different -- an employee garden.

(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Ogden Botanical Gardens is full of flowers, providing food for bees and butterflies.

A spot to find beauty -- Ogden Botanical Gardens there for all to enjoy

OGDEN -- Between Harrison and Monroe boulevards along the Ogden River sits one of the most-treasured places in Ogden.

(BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner) Morgan Sullivan stands with her husband Kelly in their backyard.

Party gardens

A large estate garden, and a yard big enough to feature a pioneer-era irrigation pond, are part of this year's Ogden Area Garden Tour.

Subscription farm has early tomato crop

OREM-- The tomato crop is looking good -- and early -- at a farm where customers can order fresh produce in advance.

(DJAMILA GROSSMAN/Standard-Examiner) Cayce Adams and Ruby Topham plant onions at the Davis Learning Center. Donna Raby, a therapist for the center who oversees the activity, uses community gardening as one element in her therapy.

Healing seeds: Therapist uses salsa garden to help clients work through some of life's challenges

CLEARFIELD -- For many people, spending time in the garden decreases anxiety and stress and encourages social interaction.

Fun things to do

Dinosaurs make way for classic cars, bikes

OGDEN -- More than 50 classic cars will be featured at a car and bike show Saturday at the George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park.

(BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner) Daniel Anderson works to prepare the flower beds for spring at the grounds surrounding the Ogden Temple and Tabernacle.

Full-time groundskeeper at temple has no trouble finding help

OGDEN -- Mike Keyes has been beautifying the Ogden Temple grounds for almost 21 years now and loves every minute of it.

He only has one other part-time paid employee to work the grounds and all of the rest are volunteers. Keyes figures there are about 25 volunteers total and about eight to 10 volunteers a day working the gardens during the busy seasons of spring, summer and fall, totaling about 300 to 400 hours per month.

(MATTHEW HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Dennis Staley looks at an Amorphophallus konjac, also known as Devil's Tongue in Roy. The plants only bloom a few weeks of each year and produce a foul odor during that period.

Botanical oddity thrives in Roy

ROY -- You might not think something with the name Devil's Tongue would be so beautiful, but Dennis Staley and Anita Lewis said the name is deceiving.

The Roy neighbors have been growing the exotic plant for several years and said they last a lifetime. In fact, Staley got his bulb from his cousin's plant, which was more than 40 years old.

Get your garden plot next spring

OGDEN -- It's been five years since the Junior League of Ogden started clearing out a jungle of trees, weeds and asphalt just north of Madison Elementary School.

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