(LA Daily News, 8/6/05)

Every neighborhood has at least one. The lawn is dying for a sprinkler system. Weeds run amok in flower beds. Poorly pruned hedges display bare midsections. A large tree threatens to uproot a foundation wall.

"It's a crime," says Shirley Bovshow, a Woodland Hills landscape designer who has teamed up with Sacramento landscape architectural consultant Michael Glassman to become the hosts of "Garden Police," Discovery Home Channel's new weekly show, airing at 8 p.m. Thursdays. ...read more!

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Garden cops lay down the law
By Vicki Smith Paluch, Correspondent
(LA Daily News, 8/6/05)

To help home gardeners avoid the 10 most common garden design blunders, we asked "Garden Police" hosts Shirley Bovshow and Michael Glassman, and Brian Sullivan, horticultural supervisor at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, to share their expertise. ...read more!

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TV Show Reviews: The Garden Police
Rhonda Cliett, BellaOnline's Home Improvement Editor
(Bella Online - The Voice of Women)

We have all seen the one yard in every neighborhood that simply has trouble keeping up with everyone else. The shrubs are overgrown. The weeds are out of control. The grass has long since died. The entire yard is an eyesore. More than an eyesore; these yards are a crime! What are neighbors to do? Enter, the Garden Police – Shirley Bovshow and Michael Glassman – landscape designers with a talent for taking a seemingless hopeless plot of dirt and dead grass and turning it into a beautiful, heavenly escape. Bovshow and Glassman are the devine intervention needed to solve the crime of an ugly yard... read more!

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Rose Gardening 101

When I first heard about the new Discovery Home Channel series the Garden Police, I was eager to see the show.

Unfortunately, the Discovery Home Channel isn’t included in my standard cable package. Luckily, the  DiscoveryHome.com website provides snippets of past shows and information about the projects.  Read more!