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FRIDAY FINDS
I hate to whine about the weather so much, but my goodness it has been COLD here. I have a lot of seedlings in the temporary greenhouse and I’ll be honest, I haven’t gone in there in two days because I’m afraid of what I might find. They cannot have been happy the last few days with very cold nights ...
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK 4
If you’re wondering what all this bathroom talk is in the middle of high gardening season, I’m participating in the One Room Challenge, a quest to renovate one room in six weeks. Start from the beginning of this journey here. We all know that every renovation has its stumbling blocks and this one is no exception. But it is interesting ...
GREAT CONTAINERS AT ANY PRICE
Yesterday I wrote about the factors to consider when choosing a container. You can read it here, but I broke it down to four factors: Size (err on the side of bigger) Style (what suits your house, garden and personal preferences) Material (will you leave it out all year or have to move it) Price Now I’m going to share ...
HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT CONTAINER
You know that gardening season is truly upon us when I start dreaming about container plantings. In preparation for this year’s containers I have been poring over Deborah Silver’s old blog posts, combing through Pinterest and drooling over some of the amazing containers the rest of the world seems to have access to, but for some reason are nearly impossible ...
FRIDAY FINDS
I have more garden cleanup (both my own and at a master gardener project) on the schedule for this weekend, a date with some nasty garlic mustard weed that, I kid you not, grew 5 inches in one night when we got a lot of rain and one more sowing of tomatoes to try to salvage my seed plans scheduled ...
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK 3
First off, thank you all for your wonderful comments from Week 2. I’m happy to say that thanks to some insanely long hours by our tile guy, the tile portion of this project is moving nicely. There were a couple of factors that came into play with the selection of the wall tile. This bathroom was always going to be ...
FAILURE, AND SUCCESS, COMES EARLY
We’re well into seed-starting season at this point. I can tell because I’m bored with it. Well, not bored with it, but it is lot of work to check on those little guys multiple times a day to make sure they are feeling happy. Overall, I would say my seed starting has not been as successful this year as it ...
FRIDAY FINDS
After several weekends in a row with snow, we finally have a favorable gardening forecast for the weekend. I’m looking forward to getting a serious amount of dirt under my fingernails and checking a lot of gardening to-dos off the list. Some of the seedlings I’ve been growing inside are going to have to be moved outside to the temporary ...
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK 2
Welcome to the second week of my personal One Room Challenge, where I attempt to renovate one room in six weeks. See Week 1 here. Some affiliate links may be used. I very much appreciate your support of this blog. It was a big week in the bathroom progress and, not surprisingly, we ran into more than a few hurdles ...
GREAT NEW PLANTS FOR 2016: PERENNIALS EDITION
No surprise, I had a harder time narrowing down the list of cool new perennials than the annuals or shrubs. I can see all of these eventually finding a home in my garden. 1. Baptisia ‘Lunar Eclipse‘: There are a ton of new baptisias on the market, but this is the one I’m really in love with. Baptisias are big ...
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK ONE
Are you familiar with the One Room Challenge? Every spring and fall, a group of bloggers each choose one room in their house to renovate in six weeks and once a week post an update of what’s happening. The selected bloggers work with brands who provide some support. I’m not doing that. But I am going to play along as ...
GREAT NEW PLANTS FOR 2016: SHRUBS EDITION
A couple weeks ago, I shared some new annuals for 2016, and today I’m sharing new shrubs that look interesting. Some affiliate links have been used. 1. Petite Pillar Dwarf Boxwood: Plant producers are smart to be working on new boxwood introductions because I still think it’s the single hottest shrub of the moment. This one grows in a naturally ...
FRIDAY FINDS
So, it’s April 1, aka April Fool’s Day. Be warned, folks, the Internet is full of bad jokes that people are falling for left and right. But I hereby proclaim this space to be April Fool’s joke free. Read with confidence. In all seriousness, I’m really excited that we’ve made it to April. Gardening gets real in April. So let’s ...
10 SPRING JOBS TO GET YOUR GARDEN IN GEAR
I love a good to-do list. For the most part, April is the first real opportunity to get back in the garden in this area and although this week is cold and wet, soon it’ll be time to clean up the yard. So in honor of tomorrow being April and my love of to-do lists, here’s a list of some ...
GARDEN BLOGGERS’ FAVORITE PERENNIALS
I love asking gardeners what their favorite plant is. It’s an unfair question, I know, and on any given day my answer could be any number of things, but I think it’s an interesting exercise. I reached out to some garden blogging friends to see what their favorite perennial is and here’s what they said. ...
FRIDAY FINDS: SNOW + EASTER EDITION
Winter came back. I knew it would. I knew that this mild winter and early spring that we were blessed with was just too good to be true, but mentally I had moved on. The end of the week brought us horrible weather and this morning the trees were shimmering with ice on their branches and every sign of live ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
