- Home Depot overcomes slow start to year, rising home prices
![FILE - A Home Depot logo sign hands on its facade, Friday, May 14, 2021, in North Miami, Fla. Home Depot's fiscal first-quarter 2022 sales improved even as the chain faced a slower start to spring, and it raised its full-year guidance.]()
- Longtime AP Alaska bureau chief Dean Fosdick dies at age 80
![FILE - This photo published in AP World Magazine in Fall 1998 shows Dean Fosdick on election night in Anchorage, Alaska. Fosdick, the Associated Press journalist who filed the news alert informing the world of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, has died. He died April 27, 2022, in Florida at the age of 80. His longtime career with the news service included 15 years as the bureau chief in Alaska.]()
- Protesters vent fury at French company for staying in Russia
![Activists, including Arkadiusz Szczurek, left, take part in a protest outside an outlet of French home improvement retailer Leroy Merlin in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday May 7, 2022. In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, a protest movement was born in Poland urging people to boycott companies that have chosen to keep operating in Russia.]()
- Not all shade is the same: Gardening when there's little sun
![This image provided by Jessica Damiano shows the chartreuse foliage of Hakone grass and golden creeping Jenny brightening a partly shady garden on May 13, 2021, in Glen Head, N.Y. (Jessica Damiano via AP)]()
- America's love affair with the lawn is getting messy
![This 2021 image provided by LeighAnn Ferrara shows Ferrara's young son as he watches a rabbit on a grassy patch of his White Plains, N.Y., yard, which is surrounded by planting beds of flowers, vegetables and trees. Many people are converting parts of their grass lawns into more diverse plantings. (LeighAnn Ferrara via AP]()
- Flowers in the rubble: Ukrainian woman sees a sliver of hope
![Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in the garden of her home in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. There are no longer any walls. The broad wooden roof beams lie splintered and scattered, and random pieces of clothing dangle from twisted water pipes. But among the rubble of what used to be her home, the house her grandparents built, Anna Shevchenko saw a glimmer of hope.]()
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![This image provided by Jessica Damiano shows a bouquet of cut sunflowers on Oct. 15, 2019 in Mattituck, N.Y. (Jessica Damiano via AP)]()
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![This combination photo shows purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), left, and a Liatris spicata, commonly called blazing star or gay feather. Purple Loosestrife is an invasive plant that threatens wetlands and chokes out food sources and habitat for wildlife. TheLiatris spicata is a recommended alternative for invasive purple loosestrife. (Chicago Botanic Garden via AP, left, and Jessica Damiano via AP)]()
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![This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Search" by Michelle Huneven. (Penguin Press via AP)]()
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![This image provided by Mt. Cuba Center shows the formal native plant garden blooming at the botanical garden, located in Hockessin, Del. Plantings depicted are: Amsonia tabernaemontana 'Storm Cloud', Asclepias tuberosa, Coreopsis verticillata 'Crazy Cayenne', Gillenia trifoliata 'Pink Profusion', Monarda didyma 'AChall', Penstemon 'Dark Towers', Physocarpus opulifolius 'SMPOTW', Rudbeckia maxima, Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Lucerne', Solidago sphacelata 'Golden Fleece' and Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'October Skies'. (Alessandra N. Stokley/Mt. Cuba Center via AP)]()
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![The stump of a large oak tree remains as construction continues outside the old New Lebanon School in the Byram section of Greenwich in 2019.]()
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![Interior design of elegant kitchen with black and white elements.]()
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![Duo Dickinson ponders about the state of the real estate market and if the rush to buy homes during the pandemic will lead to another crash.]()
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![Baby goat French Toast smells a dandelion at the Stamford Museum & Nature's Heckscher Farm in Stamford.]()
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![She is taking in the last sun rays of the day]()
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![With its stretching, many-hued blooms, the Snapdragon “University of California Mix” is a colorful garden choice.]()
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![The cottage garden in front of the visitor center at Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens is full of blooming flowers.]()
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![Left, Taylor Spellman, and right, Marci Sharif, who have been friends since fifth grade.]()
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![After spending so many months at home, now might be the time to reconsider how to best utilize our decks.]()
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![Pre-renovation, the pea-gravel courtyard included the existing pond ringed by a boxwood hedge. Wanting to make the space a special area to relax, the Shahids added blue stone pavers and a patio, and ornamental grass to bring in color and softness. “Our ducks like to jump in for a swim every now and then,” Charlotte says.]()
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![Ceropegia woodii]()
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![Duo Dickinson offers tips on preparing your home for winter and how to circulate air for indoor gatherings during the pandemic.]()
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![Tending to the smaller details make a difference.]()
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![Blighted properties can reduce property values in a neighborhood and can become a safety issue if they aren't addressed.]()
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![Diane Lampert is a certified Master Gardener and is based in Greenwich.]()
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![John and Anne Nolon live in this 140 year old carriage house in Westchester, a barn turned home 70 years ago.]()
