It’s been a while since I’ve done a Friday Finds post and I’ve missed them. First, a little programming note. My YouTube channel is gone. What happened to it is a bit of a mystery that starts with bizarre, profanity-laden threats from a random person on YouTube and ends with my channel being gone a few days after I reported ...
After a lot of talking about planting window boxes, the weather finally (if briefly) improved enough to actually do it. This year I aimed for a slightly more restrained color palette (blue/purple, lime green and a touch of orange) and fewer plants. In the past I’ve jammed so many plants in the window box that I think they had a ...
We’ve been caught in a crazy weather cycle all spring. We’ll have days of weather doing exactly what it is supposed to do here this time of year followed by days of intense cold. All of that has made gardening a little challenging, but it has been enough to turn the grass a brilliant green. Add in a lot of ...
Someone just pointed out to me today that Monday is the beginning of June. I can hardly believe it. I feel like I have been complaining, or at least commenting on how busy life has been every time I write a post, so you won’t hear that from me today. I’ll just say that I have high hopes of getting ...
Sorry I’ve been blogging so intermittently lately; things are busier than I would like and I have been working on this week’s window box post for a really long time! Anyway, allow me to catch you up on what’s happening. First off, the most exciting thing to happen in my garden perhaps ever. Do you see that? That’s the temperature ...
Designing containers is one of my favorite parts of gardening. There are so many options and there’s so much less commitment than designing a garden: You get to redo it every year. Pretty much everyone knows about the thriller, spiller, filler method of designing containers and although this isn’t the only way, it’s a pretty fail-safe method. Except when it ...
I posted this photo on Instagram over the weekend because it’s just that ridiculous. No, I’m not growing a bumper crop of lattes (although that would lovely). What you see here, this odd coffee-cup graveyard of sorts, was about plan C for this little area of the yard. It started with this post on A Way to Garden. Margaret Roach ...
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Monday was the big day for the renovation: the day they pulled the top off half the house. Up until now they’ve been doing a lot of preparatory work getting ready for the tear-off. I swung by at mid-day to see just how it our house would look as a ranch. Hopefully we’re all done […]
You know how the folks over at Young House Love are always out crashing houses? Well, here’s my take on it. Welcome to Garden Crashing! This is a garden that was actually spotted from the road on a bike ride. You know a garden is good when it’s so impressive from the road that you […]
Here’s a before and after for you that I had absolutely nothing to do with. The husband gets to take credit for this one. We have two big dogs. Two very big dogs, in fact. We’re talking massive here (a tumbleweed of hair, such as those that regularly roll across my living despite almost daily […]
Look at what I got: My very own fandeck! After stopping at the local True Value store (which is the area Benjamin Moore dealer) almost every day to pick up paint chips, I finally decided it would be a heck of a lot easier to just buy a fandeck. I use those paint chips for […]
Yesterday I was feeling a little bit like I had betrayed our old home. Like somehow I was telling it it’s not good enough for us. I actually felt a little guilty. I realize this is crazy but I adore this house and want desperately to do right by it. Today, I almost feel like […]
The long-awaited house remodel is finally underway. It’s amazing to think that this was a project we wanted to do from when we bought the house (eight years ago) and seriously started talking about a year and a half ago and all of a sudden it’s here. It’s actually rather shocking; I spent so long […]
This is Part 2 of a series on how I changed a brand new (but flawed) table into just what I needed. You can find Part 1 here. With the table the right length (and the legs in the right place), it was time to finish it. Like a lot of furniture refinishing, the concern […]
Hi all, Just wanted to send out a message that the computer woes have been solved and things are back in track. I’ll have the rest of the table finished post up for you tomorrow morning. And construction has begun in earnest so you know there will be updates coming on that.
If you’re not following The Impatient Gardener on Facebook you’re probably wondering what the deal with not posting the second half of the table re-do is. Well, here’s the ugly truth: Thursday night I was enjoying a glass of wine while doing a bit of computing and the next thing I knew, the glass of […]
When we started on the mini-kitchen redo last fall, I knew two things: I wanted a banquette and table that would allow us to easily slide in and out. That meant I was looking for either a pedestal or trestle style and after looking at what seemed like thousands of photos of tables online, I […]
Nope, not a move for us, but for a good friend. This Blue Angel hosta was the first plant I planted here, seven years ago. It has performed beautifully here, where it anchored a corner of the garden. I think a conservative estimate of its size is 5 and a half feet wide. My neighbor […]
Thank goodness for cameras on phones, right? Since I don’t always walk around with a camera but I almost always have my phone with me, it’s so nice to be able to snap a shot of something great, even if people are staring at you for taking a picture of a chair. That’s what happened […]
I added a window box under the kitchen windows this summer and I just love it. Our all-white house really needed a shot of color and interest and the window box was just the ticket. But as you know, containers change through the season. I thought it would be interesting to look back and see […]
I’m not sure it’s right to even call it a construction update, since no construction has technically begun, but it’s all related, right? Here’s the background: If you’re new to the blog the deal is that we are about to embark on a partial renovation of our house. We’ll (and I don’t literally mean “we&
