The kitchen morphs from great to truly magnificent as soon as you set your eyes on the large doors that open onto the tranquil grass garden.

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Bird-lovers should leave food out and allow their garden grass to grow to create a better environment for birds to catch insects, he added.

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Corn stover, garden waste such as grass clippings, and offcuts from forestry and timber production are better bets, she reckons.

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Outside, a frost had stayed all that day and, icing over now, still whitened the small garden, the patch of grass, the fields beyond.

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Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.

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Trees and grass are being planted along both banks, and a floating garden made up of five islands will be added to the river.

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To illustrate his ideas he turned a patch of grass near a housing estate in South London into such a garden, inspired by the flower beds at Buckingham Palace, and incorporating beans, salads and many other foodstuffs.

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Usually, he went from one end of the serpentine back garden to the other, but a few days after Husna began her lessons a winter rain wet the grass.

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