Lifestyle

Bring your overgrown lilacs, forsythia, mock orange, pieris and other spring flowering shrubs down to size while maintaining their natural beauty and spring floral display. Prune spring blooming shrubs right after flowering for maximum flowering.

Hello readers and friends of the Mountaineer Echo, I hope this week finds everyone in good health and happy spirits. This week I am introducing you to some of my favorite salads. I love salad and can eat them every day, so I hope you enjoy these recipes. I hope everyone has a wonderful week and As Always remember the Little Things.

Fast facts: Free for youth ages 5-16 Held at the Fred Berry Conservation Education Center in Yellville Free lunch provided by Arvest Bank Must pre-register, check-in begins 9:30am on June 16th YELLVILLE – Marion County 4-H is pleased to present a free Outdoor Adventure Day on June 16, 2022, in Yellville, Arkansas. Outdoor Adventure Day is a free day of family fun for kids ages 5 to 16.

The river birch naturally grows along riverbanks. But as a landscape tree, it can be planted almost anywhere in the U.S. The species is valued for its relatively rapid growth, tolerance of wetness and some drought, unique curling bark, spreading limbs, and relative resistance to birch borer.

Bull Shoals Library held their annual Book, Bake and Yard Sale Festival May 26, 27 and 28 in the library annex. The festival is an important source of funding for the all-volunteer Library.

Here are sone fun museums to visit on a day trip to Branson. Be sure and visit websites of the places you would like to go and look for discounted tickets to make your trip more economical friendly.

I am still trying to find some photos to go with a couple of columns I have rolling around in my mind. That, combined with an early deadline due to the holiday weekend, briefly left me wondering what I would reminisce about this week. There were several newsworthy events this past week...the primary election, graduations, and, sadly, another school shooting.

No matter where you live, the conservation and wise use of water in our gardens and landscapes is important. Sustainable water use helps grow beautiful gardens while conserving water and helping reduce water pollution and stormwater overflows.