Impatiens: To plant or not to plant? Local experts and growers say ‘Go ahead’
Local experts say that downy mildew, a disease that has devastated garden impatiens in many states, is not a problem in the Kansas City area.
Livliga dinnerware promotes right-size eating
Kansas City native Sheila Kemper Dietrich talks about Livliga, a line of portion-control dinnerware she founded following a move to Boulder, Colo. She has a new line of children’s dinnerware and a children’s book in the works.
Allan Stever, co-owner, J’adore Home and Garden
Allan Stever and Michael Richardson’s J’adore shop in Brookside is a little department store of home decor items with a European flair. Stever talks about how the two got started and some of J’adore’s specialties
Rod Parks owns Retro Inferno and the octagonal Bruce Goff house
Rod Parks got a blast of national attention last month when he and his Bruce Goff house in Crestwood were featured in a color spread in the New York Times. Parks has held many functions in his one-of-a-kind dwelling, an octagonal floor plan house embodying the eccentric modern architect’s unique sense of style.
Q+A: Cathy Campbell, manager of the John Wornall House herb garden
Preparations are underway this week for the 25th Annual Herb and Wildflower Sale on April 27, which benefits the John Wornall House and Alexander Majors House museums.
Dennis Howell, master of faux finishes
Using faux finishes, Dennis Howell is transforming the dated look of his recently purchased home in Brookside.
Q+A with John Rufenacht, founding member of Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS/KC
Dining with a mission: DIFFA’s April 13 Dining by Design fundraiser will benefit HIV/AIDS education and prevention in Kansas City.
Secrets of spring planting from Gary Archer of Soil Service Nursery
In mid-March, Gary Archer had been unloading a truckload of dwarf conifers before he stopped to chat, and there was a whiff of spring in the air. Out in the plant lot, where a new “shade house” was taking shape, witch hazel shrubs erupted in ruffles of tiny yellow blossoms. Outside the nursery center, pansies and primroses flaunted bright colors in pots beside the door.
