Sand dunes bring millions to local economy Dec 2, 2007
KEVIN MARTY PHOTO Off-road enthusiasts take to the sand dunes near Buttercup Valley on Saturday. Monday, November 26, 2007 10:50 PM PST. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Tangy squash soup ... Uses for water chestnuts Nov 12, 2007
For future reference, some of the sweet ones are Banana, Buttercup (can be very sweet), Butternut, Carnival (can be quite sweet) Delicata, Fairy Tale Pumpkin, and Sweet Dumpling. The remedy for boring is in this recipe. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Sweet and savory ways with winter squash Nov 8, 2007
Varieties like buttercup and acorn should be a deep green, with only a spot of orange from where they were laying on the ground ... Try frying slices, or use as a substitute for buttercup. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wonderful winter squash is a great bounty Nov 4, 2007
Buttercup squashes produce small, drum-like fruit ranging in size from 2 to 5 pounds ... All buttercup squash have sweet, orange, moderately-dry flesh and are good keepers ... Popular varieties include Buttercup (100 days), Sweet Mama (84 days) and Butterball Hybrid (90 days). (Westerly Sun, RI)
When the frost is on the pumpkin, it's soup time Nov 1, 2007
At the restaurant, we like to work with delicata, kabocha, buttercup and the large Hubbard varieties. One of the easiest squashes to find is the butternut, which is also a convenient size for the average family to consume in one sitting. (Globe and Mail)
Back to nature -- Flowers to feathers dominate on Paris's runways Oct 8, 2007
As for colors, anything from the garden was lovely, from buttercup yellow and grass green through lavender, wisteria and violet; peach, nectarine and plum. Whether or not climate change will ultimately alter wardrobes by breaking down the current fashion cycle based on the four seasons, one garment stood out on the runways: loose, soft overalls or its slouchy dhoti-pant alternative - just the thing for those going green and tending to their gardens. (International Herald Tribune)
Eating local will always be in season Oct 2, 2007
The fall lineup is starting to come in as well, with loads of winter squash, including butternut, buttercup, acorn and pumpkins. In addition to vegetables, Seven Acres raises all-natural poultry, including turkeys, chickens and eggs. (Reading Advocate, MA)
Sunshine boosts Valley corn harvest Aug 29, 2007
New are the winter squashes: buttercup, red kuri, stripetti, spaghetti and sugar pumpkins. Look for them today at Northway Mall and the South Anchorage market on Saturday. (Anchorage Daily News)
Monsters in the grass Aug 17, 2007
The range of weed evil in Anchorage goes from probably-not-all-that-bad (clover, chickweed) to salmon-killing, moose-starving monsters (creeping buttercup, orange hawkweed) ... If creeping buttercup gets into the watersheds and blocks the salmon, if orange hawkweed overruns wildlife forage and theres nothing for the moose, if the invasives eliminate native plants the birds depend on, Alaskas traditional way of life will be history. (Anchorage Daily News)
Legs lead the way in summer's micro-minis Aug 15, 2007
Among the highlights was a tight, micro-mini shift frock with frilled cap sleeves in silver and buttercup silk by Collette Dinnigan, while an opening segment of clean-line spliced polka-dot items and a simple, muted silver knee-length shift dress, illustrated why Melbourne's Anna Thomas is "designer of the moment". "As you can see, there are plenty of the knee-length hemlines. Summer is all about dresses; true sun dresses," said Collette Garnsey. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Grieving mother deeply touched by presents Aug 2, 2007
May my actions be as bright as a buttercup of gold. That grows in green fields, small yet bold. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
County fair fans show their talents Jul 8, 2007
Paparelli performed Christina Aguleria's 've Got Trouble, as well as an a cappella version of the '60s staple uild Me Up Buttercup. love to sing, Paparelli said. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
A fiesta of art, with bugs Jun 28, 2007
Ever hear of the rare Dancinus Buttercupus. It's a specimen nothing less than spectacular - a hybrid of beetles and a buttercup flower ... One minor issue: the Dancinus Buttercupus isn't what you'd call "real." Unfortunately for the world, it exists only in the imagination of Iowa artist Diane Naylor. (Daily Iowan, IA)
If you crave yellow, dont rely on dandelions Jun 15, 2007
They are in the buttercup family, and flowers look like large buttercups, one to two inches in diameter and in all shades of yellow. A bit more dandelionlike, the Siberian trollius appears in late July and early August. (Anchorage Daily News)
Wedding: LaTonda Nichole Fennell and Edward Cherry Jr 06-10-2007 Jun 11, 2007
They wore buttercup strapless gowns with a chiffon, satin high-low hemline. Each carried a bouquet of pink roses adorned with yellow ribbon. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Invasive plants across the country Jun 3, 2007
The Associated Press. A list of invasive plants by region compiled by The Nature Conservancy. (Concord Monitor)
Fire and smoke damage Lodi home Jun 2, 2007
Lodi firefighter Craig Copulus rescues Buttercup the dog on Thursday afternoon, after a fire broke out in a house on Colette Street ... Firefighters rescued their nephew's small fluffy dog, Buttercup, from inside the home. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The late show Jun 2, 2007
If you're choosing from a catalogue, go for varieties described as Japanese kabocha, kuri, butternut or buttercup. Sow immediately as for sweet corn, spaced about 1m apart. (Guardian Unlimited)
Fenland recoveryThe ambitious effort to restore the Cambridgeshire fens May 24, 2007
It's a wonderfully quiet, wetland oasis where waterfowl, occasional water voles and plants like ragged robin, greater spearwort (a kind of buttercup) and tall marsh sow thistle still survive. Among them are one or two real rarities like the tiny and delicate fen violet, which flowers at this time of year and which is found in only three places in Britain. (BBC News -- Science)
LaFayette becomes a Main Street city May 5, 2007
Some of the program s greatest successes have been completing the first facade-grant-funded project at Chapman s Jewelry, Shear Time and Buttercup Alley, and art projects coordinated with local schools, LaFayette Main Street and Economic Development Director Catherine Edgemon said. Students at LaFayette Middle School, LaFayette Sixth Grade Academy and Gilbert Elementary created portraits of downtown buildings, and downtown business owners displayed those portraits in their windows last fall. (WWalker County Messenger, GA)
Bulbs to Plant in the Spring Apr 18, 2007
Ranunculus Also called Buttercup or Crow foot , these tuberous roots can be planted in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. Mid to late summer blooms are usually brightly colored and make good cut flowers. (Suite101.com)
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Flowers expected to be present on that day include Bellwort, May Apple, Dutchman s Breeches, Hepatica, Prairie Trillium, Blood Root, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Virginia Waterleaf, Buttercup, Wild Leek, Wild Ginger, Spring Beauty, Toothwart, Dogtooth Violet (Trout Lily), Blue Cohosh, Sweet William, Virginia Bluebells, Rue Anemone, Solomon s Seal, and Woodland Violets. Witness Frank C. Pellett Memorial Woods spring to life as you hike along side Frank s descendants in southwest Iowa s only State Woodland... (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
Summer bulbs: Plant them now to enjoy later Apr 4, 2007
This gorgeous cutting flower, also called the Persian buttercup, looks like an old-fashioned English rose and bears 2-to-5-inch flowers crowded with petals over a long period three to four months. They come in every color, on 18-inch stalks that may produce up to 75 flowers a season. (Quad-Cities Online)
Pellet Memorial Woods celebrates 100 years Apr 3, 2007
Submitted photo - A buttercup signals a new season. The flower is one of many that bloom at the Frank C. Pellet Memorial Woods near Atlantic. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA)
The Augusta we don't see during the Masters Mar 31, 2007
Take somebody's advice and turn the corner, to Hildebrandt's, the old variety store open since 1879 that has MoonPies on the rack and Buttercup Sweet Scotch Snuff under the countertop. There is a lunch counter in back where strangers sit together at a low white slab of marble under the approving, grease-cataracted eyes of the Hildebrandt generations on the walls, and Luanne Hildebrandt (in her Deke T-shirt) will ask "Sweet enough for you?" as she refills your tea. (ESPN -- Golf)
Nipping oxalis in the bulbs is key to control Mar 15, 2007
A: Picking off flowers won't help at all because Cape oxalis, a.k.a. Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae) doesn't produce seeds that can grow. Some years ago, Jake Sigg of the Invasive-Exotics Committee of the California Native Plant Society placed a $100 bet that no one could prove the plant grows from seeds in California. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The lovely late-winter 'rose' Mar 7, 2007
Hellebores may resemble roses while in flower, but Lenten roses actually are members of the buttercup family. Helleborus orientalis hybrids have been a staple of the Southern shade garden for years. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
State Barred From Enforcing Ban On Corporate Farming Jan 27, 2007
This Web site was designed using. about the benefits of standardized design. (Nebraska Statepaper)
Page H. OnoratoKitchen tools aren't what they used to be Jan 18, 2007
Kitchen tools aren't what they used to be - The Lexington Dispatch (Foster's Daily Democrat)
12 trends in food for 2007 Jan 17, 2007
Varieties such as turban, curry pumpkins, sibley, kabocha, delicata, buttercup and warted hubbard are making headway in squashing the notion that the heirloom vegetable revival is all about tomatoes. You'll see more unusual types coming to your supermarket this year. (AZCentral -- Home)
In Home & Design | Sassy and bold area rugs are redefining rooms Jan 14, 2007
And last year London-based Van Der Hurd, dubbed by House and Garden magazine as ''the godmother of the contemporary rug scene,'' designed rugs with diamond, chevron and punchy stripes in electric combinations such as cerise, buttercup and cream, some in silk dhurries. STEP FORWARD. (The Miami Herald)
Best and Brightest Dec 22, 2006
As the material is enlarged, altered, and repeatedly analyzed, the filmmakers fly back through time, to 1939, when the young Wilson, after a sterling rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan s I m Called Little Buttercup, in drag, is inducted into Yale s Skull and Bones society, a kind of mystic brotherhood that humiliates its inductees and excludes everyone else. From this group of young gents General Bill Sullivan (i. (New Yorker)
Vice Squad: Squash Nov 11, 2006
These include: butternut, Hubbard, buttercup, ambercup, acorn, spaghetti squash and pumpkin. Canada's Food Guide recommends that you choose more colourful fruits and vegetables more often. (Toronto Star -- Life)
Cathie Draine: Reference books offer glorious reading Nov 9, 2006
It blooms in early spring, is cold tolerant, prefers alkaline soils and looks like a cross between a buttercup and a pasque flower. Checking out the selections for penstemon I was astonished to find a large listing of plants that lack the hardiness of our prairie natives and would have to be grown as, presumably, very expensive annuals here. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Chef On A Shoestring Oct 8, 2006
Buttercup Squash Soup Sea Scallops with Swiss Chard and Parsnip Puree Cinnamon and Cashew Brule of Apples with Vanilla Ice Cream ... BUTTERCUP SQUASH SOUP ... Ingredients: 1/4 cup Canola oil cup Yellow onion, small dice 1 Jalapeno, seeded and diced 1T Ginger, peeled and minced 1T Lemongrass, minced (white part only) 4 cups Buttercup Squash, peeled and large dice 1 1/2 cup Coconut Milk 1 Qt. Water or Chicken Stock 1T Dark Brown Sugar 2 Kaffir Lime Leaves Limes, juiced, to taste Fish Sauce, to... (CBS News)
Autumn is all about the garden Oct 6, 2006
Dandelions, chickweed, plantains, mustards, wild onion, henbit and buttercup are examples of broadleaf weeds that can be controlled at this time of the year. These weeds are either perennials or winter annuals. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Fall Herbicide Treatments Weighed Oct 6, 2006
What's more, Mother Nature soon adapts to cropping system changes, thus no-till growers are finding weeds in their fields after harvest, such as smallflower buttercup, shepherd's purse, pennycress, smooth hawksbeard, one or more chickweed species and perhaps a perennial like dandelion or white cockle. Research continues to show fall burndown programs to be effective so that planting next spring can proceed full speed ahead. (Agri-View, WI)
Things To Do This Weekend Sep 29, 2006
Among other varieties are "Gold Dust," "Buttercup" and "Needlepoint.". SPICY NATIVE. (The Ledger)
Take care of your squash Sep 24, 2006
Leave the stems on acorn, butternut, turban and buttercup squash or pumpkins that have woody, angular stems ... Under proper storage conditions, acorn squashes will last from five to eight weeks, butternut squashes from two to three months and Turban and Buttercup should keep at least three months. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Take a walk on the wild side Sep 3, 2006
And last year London-based Van Der Hurd, dubbed by House and Garden magazine as "the godmother of the contemporary rug scene," designed rugs with diamond, chevron and punchy stripes in electric combinations such as cerise, buttercup and cream, some in silk dhurries. "Interior design has definitely taken yet another step forward," says Jackie Hirschhaut, vice president of the American Home Furnishings Alliance in High Point. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Lab scientists clone rare Akron plant Aug 15, 2006
Northern monkshood, a relative of the buttercup, is a threatened species ... Some 40 endangered plant species, including the Roan Mountain bluet from North Carolina, the Todsens' pennyroyal from New Mexico and the autumn buttercup from Utah, are being cloned there. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
A Gift for Glimmer and Glow Aug 10, 2006
Ten years after founding her business, Chandi, Clark has seen her chandeliers land in the catalogs of Anthropologie and Neiman Marcus as well as high-profile local stores such as H.D. Buttercup. Her largest piece, 6 feet tall, was created for the Georgia mansion of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, and was delivered in a crate as big as a shed. (Los Angeles Times)
Botanical: Pesian buttercup Aug 6, 2006
com: Home and Garden: Botanical: Pesian buttercup ... Botanical: Pesian buttercup ... Persian buttercups, or Ranunculus asiaticus, make lovely cut flowers. (Fresno Bee -- Real Estate)
SUSHIL CHEEMA Jul 13, 2006
Fill Me Up Buttercup. A look of aversion crossed his face. (New York Press)
after the rains come the weeds t Jul 7, 2006
" Corn in a beanfield, for example. But some weeds are all weed, all the time. They have names like clammy groundcherry and spiny sowthistle, prostrate pigweed and spotted spurge. There's Virginia pepperweed and Pennsylvania smartweed, devil's beggarticks and bulbous buttercup, purple cudweed, viper's bugloss, mugwort, cow-itch and apple-of-Peru. And pokeweed. It's a native of this area, and it's successful because it is destined to be so. By contrast, Jensen said, "the puny little petunia we... (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Denali up close Jul 3, 2006
This flower is a type of buttercup called a mountain buttercup, she said ... But this one, she said, pointing to another that looked absolutely identical, is a western buttercup because its sepals point downward ... But it is a snow buttercup, she explained, and this one over here, she went on, examining a fourth flower, is not a buttercup at all, but a yellow anemone, which is in the crowfoot family. (Anchorage Daily News)
Couple knew at first sight the 13-room renovated home on tree-lined street was for them Jun 30, 2006
Buttercup yellow paint frames three walls of windows. Sofas in green pastel and colorful chintz slipcovers, as well as hanging plants, evoke a country garden feel. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Wedding: Lori Haney and Robby McCarver 06-18-2006 Jun 20, 2006
She held a bouquet of grape magnolias, purple hudrangeas and buttercup delphiniums. Halley Hannabas of Plainview was maid of honor. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Century House goes modern Jun 11, 2006
The clapboards are painted buttercup yellow and the trim is white, because those were the colors of Catherine Hackney's grandmother's house. All my life I wanted a yellow and white house,'' she said. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
Music Loving cup May 24, 2006
Buttercup embraces the SA heat with a perfect summer-pop collection. Two years ago, Buttercup made a decision that required local music aficionados to figure out what to do with their Monday nights ... Buttercup members Joe Reyes, Erik Sanden, a Jamie Roadman effigy, and Odie camp out at the McNay. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Harmful Plants Apr 29, 2006
There are many house and garden plants that contain chemicals that can be toxic to your cat. It is important to know which ones these are. (Suite101.com)
British plant 'bible' published Apr 24, 2006
It shows how some familiar old species, such as the corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis) and burnt orchid (Orchis ustulata), have struggled to cope with the demands placed on them by climate change, modern agricultural practices, and pollution ... Corn buttercup: Another struggling to cope(Image by Pater Wakely/English Nature). (BBC News -- Science)
Robin Wright Penn wouldn't mind a little comic relief Mar 13, 2006
But Wright Penn - 39 years old and best known to audiences for her sweet portrayal of Buttercup in The Princess Bride (1987) and her bittersweet Jenny in Forrest Gump (1994) - waves away any hint of heaviness with a wry smile and a self-mocking sense of humour. "Choosing these kinds of intense roles is becoming sort of a bad habit," she says of a recent run that includes the HBO film Empire Falls; a stunning segment of the short-film collection Nine Lives; White Oleander, and Unbreakable. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Have you heard?: Restaurant specialties: prime rib, breakfast Jan 29, 2006
University of Montana emeritus professor Jim Habeck says the sagebrush buttercup, which is yellow, is blooming already ... National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" interviewed Habeck recently about the early-bird buttercup. (Billings Gazette, MT)
UM botany professor says blooming buttercups in the Bitterroot Valley the earliest he has on record Jan 20, 2006
Jim Habeck, professor emeritus of botany at the University of Montana, holds a dried and pressed specimen of an early blooming buttercup to be cataloged at UM's Herbarium ... Buttercups blooming in February ... The earliest buttercups had bloomed in western Montana, to his knowledge, was March. (Missoulian, MT)
Perennial favorites Jan 1, 2006
These long-blooming members of the buttercup family have 2-inch flowers in many bewitching, somewhat Gothic color combinations of maroon, mauve, white, and green. They thrive without attention in partial shade. (Boston Globe)
