Mild cleaners best for outdoor furniture (Dallas Morning News)
Maybe it's time to give your outdoor furniture an end-of-summer cleaning. Gloster Furniture Inc., an outdoor-furnishings manufacturer, recommends avoiding harsh chemicals that can harm the finish, just as you would with indoor furniture.
Smith & Hawken to close on Grand (Pioneer Press)
Upscale garden tool and outdoor furniture retailer Smith & Hawken is closing two of its three Twin Cities locations after the holidays ? including its store on Grand Avenue in St. Paul.
How to Clean and Care for Outdoor Furniture (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - When spring rains rinse and refresh the outdoors, decks, patios and everything on them get a bath, too. But, once it's dry you see the remaining film that stays: dirt, bird droppings, sticky tree sap and buds, and whatever other debris that gets carried in the wind to land on your patio.
Smith & Hawken to close 2 metro stores (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The Edina store will remain open. Parent company Scotts Miracle-Gro is considering selling the money-losing chain.
ScottsMiracle-Gro Names Mark R. Baker President, Chief Operating Officer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company , the world's leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, today announced that Mark R. Baker has been named President and Chief Operating Officer, effective October 1, 2008.
Gulf Coast Residents Prepare for Hurricane Ike's Arrival (Kansas City InfoZine)
The American Red Cross is getting ready for Hurricane Ike and urges everyone living in the projected path of the storm to get ready too.
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