GARDEN NEWS

• Bird walks

• Book's aim: confident gardeners
(Timber Press, $34.95)

• Catering to feathered friends with a buffet in the back yard
Every winter I try to add new entrees to my backyard bird-feeding menu. This isn?t as difficult as it might seem, given the evolution of feeding into a $3.3 billion-a-year business, according to the latest statistics compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in its report "Wildlife Watching in the United States."

• Ohio Design Centre to open its doors for big sale
Get ready to rumble: The annual Ohio Design Centre open house sale is next week.

• Garden Calendar

• Stan Hywet seeks doghouse designs for Barkitecture exhibit
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron is accepting applications for its upcoming Barkitecture exhibit, which, as the name implies, will feature cool and unusual doghouses.

• Plants naturally turn toward the sunny side: Ask OSU Extension
Q: My houseplants all turn toward the window. I turn them to keep them from falling over. Why do they keep growing that way?

• All-America Rose Selections for 2009
Rosarians, are you ready?

• Rare winter visitors make a day full of surprises -- Aerial View
Birds that in the spring or fall wouldn't make us look twice are causing excitement right now in Northeast Ohio.

• Your garden checklist
Test viability in seeds left over from last year.