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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 ...
GREAT NEW PLANTS FOR 2016: ANNUALS EDITION
I am a sucker for new plants. I’m also a sucker for old, tried-and-true varieties, but there is something fun about checking out all the latest and greatest that will be hitting garden centers this year. I’m doing a little series on some of the new plants I’m most excited about this year and I’m kicking it off with annuals. ...
5 STEPS TO GROWING GREAT PLANTS FROM SEED
My neighbors must be understanding people. Until about midnight every night a bright white light emanates from the sliding glass door in the office, illuminating our back/side yard and, I’m assuming, that side of my neighbors’ house. Fortunately their bedrooms don’t face this direction, but it’s bright.Of course by this time they know the drill at this time of year. ...
FRIDAY FINDS
The other night I had a dream that I was in a nursery buying potting mix, except it wasn’t called potting mix, it was called compost. And I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out if I wanted ericaceous compost or not. But here’s the thing: Calling potting mix compost is not common in the U.S., and ...
FRIDAY FINDS + A PEEK AT AUSTIN
It’s Friday Finds time, but first I wanted to share a couple pictures from my trip to Austin with Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 gang last week. Troy-Bilt sent the Saturday6, a group of bloggers who work with them, on a shindig to find out about some new products, explore Austin and do a little good. (Disclaimer: They paid for this trip as ...
WAITING FOR SEED SIGNS OF LIFE
I hesitate to even tempt the weather gods by posting this, but holy smokes are we in a stretch of beautiful weather here. The snow is gone, the little creek in the back yard is running (and astonishingly not a single Newfoundland dog has figured that out yet), bulbs are peeking their heads out of the soil. Only a gardener ...
THE WILLOW EXPERIMENT CONTINUES
My apologies for the absence last week. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram you’ll know that I was down in Austin for a Saturday6 (Troy-Bilt’s blogger team) event. I had all kinds of plans to get some posts up but I ought to stop making plans like that because it never happens. We had a fabulous time and ...
REVIVAL OF A GARDENER’S SOUL
This weekend was one of those amazing gifts that Mother Nature throws our way every once in a while that revive the sleeping soul of a gardener. Saturday was in the 50s and we set a record on Sunday with temps in the low 60s. This is pretty much unheard of for Wisconsin in February. Check it out: Signs of ...
FRIDAY FINDS
It’s Friday Finds time! If you missed today’s earlier post showing off my now hanging staghorn fern, check it out here. Deborah Silver photo I have long been in love with Deborah Silver’s “grass” floor, but now she’s gone and put English daisies on it and I’m completely smitten. Some great seed starting do’s and don’ts from Erin at Floret ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
