View full sizeGnomes are part of a controversy over IKEA ad.
GNOME CONTROVERSY: I’m not particularly fond of gnomes, but wouldn’t go so far as to be afraid of an ad by IKEA that’s got people up in arms. They don’t care, though.
According to a story on The Huffington Post, Peter Wright, a marketing manager for Ikea’s U.K. branch, said the commercial was merely a “light-hearted” way of showing a family defying “the ultimate embodiment of everything that’s tired and dreary about British gardens – the garden gnome.”
Watch the video and vote.
MUSEUM KNOW-HOW: I tend to believe when Jonathan Kavalier, chief horticulturist for the Smithsonian Gardens, shares tips he and his colleagues have acquired over the years. Check out a video on pruning.
GRASS AFFAIR: Americans love their lawns, says author Thomas Mickey in his book “America’s Romance with the English Garden.”
“I want people to understand how we became obsessed with the lawn,” said Mickey, a master gardener and professor emeritus of communication studies at Bridgewater (Mass.) State College. “This ideal is something we’ve inherited and it’s difficult to get rid of.”
— Kym Pokorny
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