Home & Garden

Television personality and model Kim Kardashian has bought a furnished estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for about $3.5 million.

Question: The drywalls of our house get covered with moisture, especially when it is cold or rains and we use our unvented gas heaters. Paint store people tell me to use Drylok on the walls to keep out the moisture. There are also drainage problems around the house. Can you help?

ASK MARY: TULIPS IN POT NEED TO RECHARGE

Need a good laugh? Check out butterflylister.com's list of the "Top 10 Worst Home Decorating Trends of All Time" and tell me what you think. (Not that I ever did anything on this list.)

Question: In the last 10 years I have had the roof replaced, replaced five windows, the furnace, and a sewer line, added a sunroom, and had drain tiles installed around the house and yard.

Tim and Michelle Garland of Boise have day jobs - at Hewlett Packard and Simplot, respectively - and a garden with 200 dahlias.

Whether you call them gloriosa daisies, Black-Eyed Susans or rudbeckias one thing is certain, they are among the showiest plants in the summer garden. In last summer's trials it was the Denver Daisy that caused the commotion in the gardening public.

Question: When did DNA testing come into play for finding criminals?

This week, two things became clear.

In today's economy, it seems irresponsible and even outlandish to consider a career outside of the corporate realm. After all, the corporate world is where the money is, and money is hard to come by these days.