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How, when and why to divide garden perennials for better blooming
If your spring and early-summer perennials are overgrowing their spaces, blooming less, producing smaller flowers or flopping over (possibly with a hole in their centers), they’re telling you they want to be divided. Crowded plants often struggle because they must compete for limited water, nutrients and sunlight, and the diminished airflow between them also increases […]
Chrissie Hynde hates cameras and talking about herself. She made a Pretenders doc anyway
TORONTO | Chrissie Hynde is not one for looking back. She detests self-mythologizing. She doesn’t even like cameras. She’s just about the most reluctant documentary subject there is. Yet filmmaker Joss Crowley, after years of persuading, finally managed to get Hynde to go along with the first authorized documentary on her seminal rock band, the […]
Photos show the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest in California
SANTA ROSA, Calif. | The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Friday. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Read more Hayden Panettiere, who starred in ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36
One Tech Tip: How to soothe thumb pain when texting and scrolling
NEW YORK | Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers. The term texting thumb can describe a wide range of phone-related pains caused by tired-out tendons and achy joints — like general stiffness, throbbing near the knuckle and a clicking sensation when […]