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2014: A YEAR IN REVIEW
Wow, how did it get to be December 31 already? It seems like the year just flew by. Come to think if it, since I was 25, they all seem to have flown by. It was a good year on the blog. I’ve been doing this since April 2009 and I wrote (a few) more posts this year than any ...
POST-HOLIDAY MODE
Hello again gang! I totally left you hanging on Christmas Eve and I haven’t been back since. Sorry about that, I was feeling a little lazy. I did take a bunch of photos of the mantel, but it seems ridiculous to show them now, when I’m chomping at the bit to clean it all up. I love Christmas decorations but ...
A CHRISTMAS CARD
Ever since our first dog was a puppy, we’ve done a personalized holiday card featuring the dogs. Sadly I can’t find that card anymore, but last year I showed you many of our previous cards (and this one). This was the first time in 11 years that we made a card without Hudson on it, which is sad, but we were ...
OH CHRISTMAS TREE, OH CHRISTMAS TREE
Welcome to The Impatient Gardener blog, where Christmas happens in slow motion. I’ve been slow to get things finished this year, pared down the decorations and haven’t quite finished wrapping yet. That means that I’m just now getting around to showing you some of how Christmas is happening in my house. Today I’m showing you the tree, mostly because the ...
FRIDAY FINDS
Well, the Hampton Hostess might have been hanging with William and Kate last week, but remember how Kate practically welcomed me to England (I “ran into” her after I’d been there for all of 14 hours)? I love looking at other people’s houses all holiday’d up. Linda’s decorations are refined, unique and restrained. I bet everything she puts out has ...
CHECKING IN ON THE SLOWEST PROJECT IN HISTORY
Behold! I bring you tidings of great news! I got my Christmas tree decorated this week. No pictures to share yet (and frankly, I do the same thing every year on my Christmas tree so it doesn’t look much different than in the past), but I will definitely share my pared-down holiday decor with you soon. Despite the fact that ...
PUCKER UP; HERE’S HOW TO MAKE A KISSING BALL
I didn’t bother to look up the history of the kissing ball, but I imagine it goes something like this: Mistletoe is ugly but people still need an excuse to kiss, so someone invented a ball covered in greens, called it a kissing ball and people started smooching under it. Works for me. Anyway, I recently took a class on ...
FRIDAY (OR UM, SATURDAY) FINDS
This is actually getting out so late that Friday Finds has most likely turned into Saturday finds. Either way, here’s my (mostly) weekly roundup of cool stuff I found on the Interwebs this week. Don’t forget to enter to win a $50 gift certificate to Uncommon Goods. I’m closing the giveaway on Monday night so the winner has time to ...
AN UNCOMMONLY GOOD GIVEAWAY
Who couldn’t use a little help with their holiday shopping at this time of year? I don’t do a lot of giveaways on the blog, but I was excited to do one for a very cool company: Uncommon Goods. This is the place to go when you need something interesting and different for a gift. I picked a few of ...
A TREE CASUALTY
Last week I lamented the loss of more trees in our yard. The difference of the missing ash trees is dramatic. But they are gone and that’s all there is to it. I’m trying to look at this as an opportunity to plant something big and beautiful like a copper beech, a Kentucky coffeetree or any other from the amazing ...
CHRISTMAS ALL AROUND THE HOUSE: A TOUR
OK folks, there’s no denying it now. The holidays are a’comin’ and they are a’comin’ quick. Don’t look now but there are only three weekends until Christmas. How is that even possible? Well never fear because there are plenty of people who are way more organized than I am and they are full of inspirational ideas for your holiday decorating. ...
BIDDING FAREWELL TO MORE TREES
You won’t believe what is happening at our house today. In fact, it was so disturbing to me that I left as quickly as I could this morning without so much as grabbing a photo of it first. More trees are coming down. Does anyone else get that sick feeling in their stomach when they have to take down a ...
HOLIDAY CHEER FOR OUTSIDE
My favorite holiday decorations are the ones I do outside. It’s partly because they brighten up what is otherwise a pretty dreary landscape, but also because the decorations outside, particularly the containers, provide the most decorating bang for the buck.I love how with a few collected (and some purchased) materials you can create something that is really beautiful. These containers ...
THE HAPPIEST OF THANKSGIVINGS TO YOU
It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S. tomorrow so a lot of people are running around like chickens turkeys with their heads cut off trying to get the last minute details out of the way. We’ll be going to my parents house for the largest family gathering we’ve had in years. All three of my dad’s sisters and their spouses will be ...
GATHERING THE SUPPLIES
We got our first real snowfall (a few inches) last night which makes it a little harder to ignore the freight train that is Christmas. Let me start by saying I really hate that Thanksgiving seems to have been forgotten other than to mark the Thursday before the weekend that everyone is putting up their Christmas decorations. I love decorating ...
A NEW PLAN FOR WARDING OFF DEER
I’ve whined about the deer problem in my garden many times before and there is no perfect solution. Every year I learn more in the war in combatting them and what I learned last year was that they can do major damage in winter. Up until last year, we’ve had many years of mild winters. But last year we had ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
