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The ultimate gardener’s getaway
Have your thoughts turned to summer yet? I’ve been trying to stave off that feeling I get every year at about this time when I get the itch to start gardening, but it seems impossible. What I’m about to tell you about won’t help with that. If you need some help with your garden dreaming though, that I can help ...
Another touch of black
What is it with me and spur-of-the-moment door painting? It’s really quite strange. I usually really think about a project before I jump into it. I’m not one of those people who will tear down a wall on a Friday night without thinking through what happens next. But for some reason, I get a little crazy when it comes to ...
Rug, meet chair. Chair, meet rug.
First off, I’m sorry for the radio silence this week after the big bang of two posts on Monday. I had posts all ready to go and then work got so busy I didn’t even have time to hit send. The other day a friend and blog reader sent me a message in the middle of our intense Words with ...
My laundry room essentials
Earlier today I showed you how we spruced up our laundry room. I love the new laundry organizers and I can honestly say it makes an unpleasant task a little better. I’m not a great laundress (you won’t catch me measuring my wool sweaters so I can properly block them after handwashing a la Martha Stewart) but there are two things ...
A little lipstick on a laundry pig
I want a laundry room that looks like this: Contemporary Laundry Room design by San Francisco Interior Designer Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs Or this: Traditional Laundry Room design by Orange County Design-build Spinnaker Development Or this: Contemporary Laundry Room design by Grand Rapids Architect Visbeen Associates, Inc. But that is not the laundry room I have, and as ...
You know you’re a gardener when …
You absolutely loved the dowager countess’ comment to her granddaughter Edith disparaging gardeners on Sunday’s “Downton Abbey.” Edith (recently left at the altar and nearing “spinsterhood,” at least her in estimation) needs a hobby and suggests perhaps gardening. “Well no, you can’t be as desperate as that,” Lady Violet says. If you’re not a “Downton Abbey” fan (or if you ...
List checker-offers unite!
Raise your hand if you’ve ever put something on a list that you’ve already done just to have the satisfaction of crossing it off. I see you all out there with your guilty hands in the air. Let’s face it, it feels damn good to cross things off a list and I’m happy to say that I’ve done a pretty ...
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
I promised I’d be back with a few photos to share from Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and since it’s technically still the 15th, I haven’t missed it yet. Just two photos to share, both demonstrating one of the great things about letting plants stand during winter. They can still be beautiful. I love the fuzzy seedheads that stick around on ...
Looking for a little help from my friends
It’s Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and I’ll be back later with a few photos to actually participate (for the first time in months) but first I need a little help on a project. Please note, that’s a picture from the store, not one showing my growing silk clematis collection. This is one that has been a long time coming. I ...
PREPPING FOR WINTER … A LITTLE LATE
Gosh, it’s about time for a gardening post, don’t you think? I never really showed you some of what happens here in the winter when it comes to the garden. Winter brings a couple of serious challenges: protecting plants from the freeze/thaw cycle and protecting plants from hungry animals. A lot of people think that it’s the cold that is ...
NOT GOODBYE, JUST UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
The mustard yellow chair and ottoman in the living room went away Monday morning. They are off to get a new look at a local upholsterer. Yeah, I should probably vacuum before I take pictures. The ottoman (and more dog fur). You can see the fabric swatch on the X-bench in the background. I love that chair and, like our ...
The project clock is ticking
It’s crunch time. It might not seems like it, but the clock is ticking. The holidays are over and the daily arrival of another seed catalog reminds me that it’s only four or five months until all waking, non-working, non-eating hours will be spent in the garden. And that means that any indoor projects that need doing better get done ...
A year in review
Before we jump headlong into 2013 (OK, probably too late for that), I thought we’d just take a look back at some what happened over the past year here on The Impatient Gardener. January We started off the year with one of my favorite posts (and one I’ll have to do again) in which a group of great garden bloggers ...
A refreshing (and chilly) start to the new year
It is amazing to me that I had Christmas decorations up for less than two weeks and yet it feels so good to have them gone. For whatever reason, there is something so liberating about getting rid of the Christmas clutter. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy Christmas decorations, on the contrary I put them up even though usually ...
A check back on 2012’s non-resolution resolutions and a few more
Happy New Year everyone! It’s new year’s eve as I write this and we just finished up an amazing dinner of surf and turf at home. It was incredible but I’d be just as happy with just the surf. Anyway, I wanted to pop in quickly to wish all of you a happy new year and to very selfishly and ...
Wrapping up Christmas
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. My holiday was completely lovely. Insanely good food to be found at every turn and great times with family. Perhaps the nicest Christmas I can remember in recent history. Unfortunately work calls, and has been calling in a big way this week. Deadlines never wait, you know. But I wanted to pop in ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
