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Thank you for stopping by my little corner of the internet. I’ve been blogging here since 2009, offering garden inspiration and information for everyday gardeners, as well as a bit of DIY (and hilarity often ensues). My goal is to provide inspiration and education to real-life gardeners like you.


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I started gardening as a toddler, or so the photos in my parents’ albums would have me believe, but didn’t really pick it up again until after college. When I had filled an apartment patio so full of plants that walking on it was no longer an option, we found a house with enough room for a garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5b. And it turned out there was room for several gardens! I’ve been battling weeds and deer there for nearly two decades, creating and recreating gardens around the 1.3-acre property and sharing the lessons and beauty I find there on this site. Along the line I became a master gardener and I love to continue to learn more about gardening every day.

The Impatient Gardener has been featured on Houzz, in Birds and Blooms magazine and on the Young House Love blog, as well as being named one of the top gardening blogs by Lawn Starter and one of Toolversed’s top 10 bloggers.

https://gardencomm.org/In addition to The Impatient Gardener, my work has been published in Luxury Magazine, SAILING Magazine, the Ozaukee Press and other publications. I’m a member of GardenComm, the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society, the Perennial Plant Association and other organizations.

I am also available to speak to groups on a variety of fun and interesting gardening topics (no boring topics may apply).

On occasion I work with carefully vetted companies whose products I like and use. To request a media kit, send me an email.

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P.O. Box 249, Port Washington, WI 53074

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The Impatient Gardener

Do you love gardening? Me too! I'm Erin and I garden in Southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5. The Impatient Gardener is all about real-life gardening: the good parts, the bad bits and even the funny stuff. It's part information, part inspiration and a little bit commiseration. Thanks for visiting.

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Well you’ve seen simple, this is clearly not tha Well you’ve seen simple, this is clearly not that. Let’s just say I threw a lot at this window box. 

Metal ring (inspired for years by Deborah Silver) was made by a local metalworker. 
Greens: fir, cedar, juniper and magnolia 
Branches: budded willow, cardinal dogwood and fantail willow
Garnish: pinecones, faux berries, faux amaranth and faux fuzzy ball things

My takeaway from this container is that I need more windows and a much bigger window box. 😀
This is what happens when it’s nice enough out t This is what happens when it’s nice enough out that I can actually feel my fingers. One minute you’re hanging garland like you do every year and the next minute you’re pilfering dried flowers from your hydrangeas and sticking them everywhere. 

This all started because the bay that I bought in the cartload sale at the nursery in August is still very much alive and looking good, so I transplanted it to the pot outside the garage (last picture). But it needed a little something to fill out the pot and I glanced around for what I might have and the next thing you know, I’m harvesting hydrangeas like crazy. 

If I had given the garland even a couple minutes of thought before I started throwing things in there I would have gone for an asymmetric look, but when you’re working outside in winter in Wisconsin, done is done.
If it were only this easy.😀 If it were only this easy.😀
Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate? For as Are you on Team Simple or Team Elaborate?

For as much as I love creating somewhat elaborate winter containers, I’d still never be without the simple ones. This is why the front of my house looks like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were decorating. I simply can’t restrain myself to a theme or design concept. 

Anyway, this trough planter is in a spot that’s not easy to get electric to, so I don’t bother with lights. Cardinal twig dogwood, fir and magnolia are all it takes to give this the simple look I need after going nuts with other containers.
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