Plant 911!

Can’t figure out why your petunias are wilting, your orchids haven’t bloomed in a decade, or your front lawn looks like Mars?

E-mail Dr. Phipps at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. A service created to help green thumbs in the Pittsburgh area, these master gardeners are ready and waiting to serve you your every green need. You can even bring in funky specimens for them to identify and diagnose! Fun stuff!

Also from the site:

If you’d rather speak to a Master Gardener in person, call Dr. Phipps’s GreenLine. GreenLine is staffed on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Call or stop by the library at Phipps Garden Center (Mellon Park) during these hours with a plant specimen to have problems identified and diagnosed. However, feel free to call anytime and leave a message – our Master Gardeners will be happy to return your call! The GreenLine Phone number is (412) 665-2364.

Pitaland

So, let’s just admit it. A lot of our East End friends don’t know how to cross rivers (and vice versa.) But let’s not forget about the Pittsburgh neighborhoods beyond tunnels and bridges. One of them being the lovely Brookline, in Southern Pittsburgh (just across the Liberty Tubes.) Brookline in itself is awesome. Think plenty of shade trees along a wide boulevard filled with quaint family owned businesses.

One of the many reasons to visit Brookline is Pitaland, the Middle-Eastern grocery store, a Lebanese-born, Pittsburgh-made family business.

I stop buy to stock up on staples like hummus, baba ghannouj and (of course!) pitas, but you can also buy everything from baklawa to syrian cheese. They produce about 4,000 pita pockets a day!

Wanna read more about the store and get some recipes before you explore? Check out this PG article.

The store Pitaland is located at 620 Brookline Boulevard. Store hours are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Phone: 412 531-5040.

scratch and sniff the pita:

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Looking for info about bikes in Pittsburgh? Want to know how to help make Pittsburgh more bike friendly? Bike-pgh.org has all the info and more.
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thisishappening – you will never be bored again

This Is Happening is a comprehensive mega list of events, activities, concerts, parties, hikes and more in Pittsburgh.
The list can be searched in many different ways
date – i am looking for something to do Thursday night
location – what is happening at the Shadow Lounge this month
category – are there any political events this week

There are also some great editors who pick their favorite events each week.

You can sign up to have the editors picks or your favorite events emailed to you.

Anyone can add an event to the site so it is a great way to promote your groups activity too.

this is happening – http://www.thisishappening.com