Welcome to Day 3 of my favorite giveaways, where I’m giving away all the gardening stuff I love best. Today I’m giving something I guarantee will make your garden grow better. I know you just rolled your eyes. Or scoffed. Or thought, “She’s nuts.” You may be right on that last one, but hear me out on this giveaway. Think ...
Don’t forget this is the week of all my favorite giveaways. Click here to for the soil knife giveaway and here for the Perfect Garden Hose. …………………………………………………….. I garden in cycles. Every couple years, I create a new garden area (i.e. last year I redid the back yard), which is a ton of work, and then the next year I ...
I’ve written about the prize for the second day of giveaways this week so many times on the blog, regular readers are probably sick of hearing about it. But the fact is, you’ll rarely find me in the garden without a hori hori (or a soil knife, if you prefer the term). A hori hori does almost everything I need ...
Every day this week I’m giving away one of my favorite gardening tools. I’ve written about all of them and I’m hoping that whoever the lucky winner of each item is will share my enthusiasm and fall just as in love with these tools as I am. I’m kicking off this big week by giving away a hose. OK, I’ll ...
Friday Finds is coming later but first I wanted to share an update with you. Remember the bulb container I planted in fall? I kept it in the (unheated) garage all winter and brought it out maybe six weeks ago or so, putting it in a warm and sunny spot on the patio. And for a time there was a ...
I started more things from seed this year than I ever have and I’m so happy I did. More than just the satisfaction of growing from seeds and the fact that I’ll have a well-stocked garden for pennies, it kept me busy during those hardest months for gardeners. It was lovely to tend to something green. In fact, I’m ...
After one of the more challenging weeks of my working career, I was absolutely spent going into the weekend. I desperately needed to just stop thinking about everything for awhile. Thank goodness Mother Nature cooperated and presented two nearly perfect spring days for me to get lost in the garden. And that’s exactly what I did, getting caught up on ...
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My favorite of my boards on Pinterest is my “Great Garden Paths” board. I have a weakness for garden paths. There is something so incredibly inviting about a path through a garden. It says, “Explore me,” or “Feel free to look AND touch, I’m cool with it.” My favorite garden paths bend around corners, beggin
Last week Tuesday we got a dumping of snow the likes of which we’ve not seen for years around here. It wasn’t so much the quantity—a healthy 12 inches at least, but probably more like 14 or 15—but the water content of what fell. I read somewhere that it had 30% more water than […]
Last week A couple weeks ago (can you tell the draft of this post has been sitting on my computer for a bit?) I told you that we are getting back into the renovation game and redoing our kitchen. Today I’m going to tell you a bit more about the plan. The layout of the kitchen […]
Slowly but surely the living room transformation from a warm modern French country feel to a more casual, slightly nautical feel has come together. I showed you the new main seating area (our living room is long and narrow so we have three seating areas). I also showed you how I reupholstered the set of […]
When I first started creating the garden at our house, my first garden as before I just had a balcony to put containers on, I ran out and got every perennial I thought looked interesting. Of course I’ve learned so much since then and the beautiful thing about gardening is that you can correct your […]
I couldn’t stand it anymore. I’ve resisted the gardening urge as long as possible, and frankly, I did better than I do most years. But fellow bloggers are posting pictures of bulbs starting to peek out, and I suspect if I dug a little (and was actually at home during daylight hours), I might find […]
It has been two years since we finished our renovation. We love almost everything we did as part of that insanely large project although there are very few things we would choose to do differently if we were to do it all over again. But looking back, that renovation damn near killed me. OK, that’s […]
Last week when I randomly went on a painting spree and suddenly painted the back door black, I was totally irritated when I couldn’t find the can of tinted primer that I know exists somewhere in this house. I never did find it, but when I realized the sheer volume of paint in this house […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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
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 a
