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How to binge-watch Sarah Richardson shows in the U.S. + new paint colors to love
It has been completely cruddy here this week. So much so that I haven’t really had the will to go outside and cut flowers for The Garden Appreciation Society, so that will wait for another week. How long do you think we can keep this thing going? It’s getting difficult to be creative with fading flowers. Anyway, I leave you ...
Mid-project updates
I know that sometimes it seems like nothing is happening here in Impatient Gardener land. You don’t hear from me for a few days (unless you follow me in Facebook or Instagram where I’m much more likely to post regular updates) and you assume I’m probably asleep on the couch with my laptop half on my face. You would be ...
Oozing charm all over the place
After a go-go-go business trip last week, it was a go-go-go weekend here. We’ve been enjoying an amazing fall (which I feel we deserved after a less-than-stellar summer) but the weather is going to take a turn this week. The feeling that the time for outdoor projects is running out has created a mad dash of trying to get what ...
This year’s veggie garden: A lot of flops and one huge success
Vegetable gardening is all but finished for the year. The occasional tomato ripens up and we’re still eating onions from the garden, but for the most part, it’s all over. I’ll have to start buying vegetables from the grocery store within a week. That makes me so sad. (You can read about the varieties I planted here.) Overall it was ...
The Garden Appreciation Society Week 18 — Link ’em up before they freeze!
Look what’s back! It’s The Garden Appreciation Society, which went on a bit of a hiatus while I stepped out of town for a little bit and then got my life sorted when I came back. The garden is waning so we need to appreciate it all that much more now, while we can. The idea for The Garden Appreciation Society ...
The garage: A ticking DIY time bomb
Everyone once in a while a DIY project sneaks up bites me from behind. It’s not even on my radar and then suddenly it’s consuming my every thought. That’s what it has been like for the last few days with our garage. Our garage is not exactly the prettiest building ever constructed and we’ve done absolutely nothing to it since ...
Photo project: The Way Home
About a year ago I started a little photo project on Instagram. I would stop in the same spot on the way home and take a quick picture with my cell phone. I picked the spot for the photo because it’s one of my favorite views in the world. There is only one way to get to our house. You ...
California dreamin’
As you know I was out of town a couple weeks ago (you know, when I just ditched you all without even attempting to blog while I was gone?). Mr. Much More Patient and I headed off to the great state of California for a little bit of work and a little bit of pleasure. It was my first time ...
The evolving window box
I followed my own advice this weekend and spent a good amount of time in the garden, although all I accomplished was a lot of weeding and a little bit of planting. There is still tons to do. I hope the weather hangs in there awhile, even though the first day of fall really felt like the first day of ...
Gardening tool I’m never without: my phone
I stayed up late last night to work on a blog post. I was quite proud of myself because I even scheduled it to go up automatically. Often I get close to finishing them, but work on them a little bit in the morning before I hit “publish,” but it’s so much nicer when I finish them and they just ...
The best way to manage blogs
I said I was only going to skip one week of The Garden Appreciation Society but I’m still getting back in the swing of things here and it has been a very bad week in my life as far as technology goes. It is unbelievable how long it takes to set up a new computer. And by the way, don’t ...
Fall is not for sissies
Well that was a bit of a break, wasn’t it? I had great intentions of posting while I was out of town but have you ever tried to do any real typing on an iPad? Oh my gosh, it’s exhausting. So I didn’t. Anyway, it was a great trip and I’ll share a few photos from it soon, but today ...
The Garden Appreciation Society Week 17 — I know you have flowers … link up!
The Garden Appreciation Society seems to be getting later and later each week. And last week I really screwed it up when I set the dates wrong on the link tool. Sorry about that. I have a good excuse for having this week’s on Friday, though. There won’t be a Garden Appreciation Society link-up next week (for the first time ...
A return to something other than the garden
It’s not unusual for me to let house projects slide during summer. After all, there is gardening to be done and fun to be had. And winter up here is way too long so it’s good to have some things to keep busy with. But this summer, more than any other, I pretty much walked out of the house, leaving ...
The Garden Appreciation Society Week 16 — Link up!
This got late again this week but only because work got totally crazy this week. Really, work? In summer? For the birds, I tell you. Anyway, welcome to Week 16 of The Garden Appreciation Society. We’re in the home stretch folks so hang with it! There are very few flowers I grow specifically for cutting. In fact, I can’t think ...
Got 2 minutes? How about a garden tour?
I am horrible when it comes to logging what goes on in my garden. Honestly I started this blog partly to force me to take at least a few notes about the garden, but beyond what you read here (and you know that that’s not exactly a log) I don’t do much in the way of keeping track of the ...
Letters from the Garden
Letters from the Garden
