After several weeks of really struggling to come up with something to bring inside to appreciate the garden for The Garden Appreciation Society, it was so nice this week to have a few things to choose from. Things are very slowly starting to come into bloom here. The garlic chives are flowering, and I love those little pinky-purple flowers. The ...
Whew … what a weekend. We had our first nice day of the year yesterday and it finally felt like summer. The screens are on the windows, the breeze was blowing through the house and the deck was the perfect temperature for a cocktail after a long day. Welcome back, summer. We’re happy to have you! I had an appointment ...
Sorry for the delay on getting The Garden Appreciation Society Week 5 up. You know work, and then I, well, forgot and then yada, yada, yada. (I don’t think anyone else is still yada, yada, yadaing but it’s really such a useful device, don’t you think?) It continues to be a challenging time to find something for me to make ...
Hi everyone. I’m late with this week’s Garden Appreciation Society post because I got home late last night and didn’t have time to make a bouquet. Look for that tomorrow and do not miss the links from last week which were fantastic! You all are amazing. To tide you over, I bring you another installment of the possibly creepy plant ...
This week was even more difficult to come up with a bouquet for than last week and while there is a lot of great foliage I could have tried to make something out of, I thought that might be cheating a little since last weekend was really all about foliage. By the way, last weekend’s bouquet is still going strong, ...
I think there are few things better than an insanely productive spring weekend. As I mentioned on Friday, this was a weekend for me to just kick it in the garden. And kick it I did. I got up and out there early both days and just kept pushing it. I got the largest garden (the “original” one off the ...
Ha! A second post on a Friday. That pretty much never happens here. Still, I thought I’d just do a little catch up on random goings-on and a bit of talk about the weekend. First off, last week I was on a radio show talking about my crown molding fail. I’m not sure Frank (the host of the show and ...
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I’ve been walking past driftwood my whole life. I couldn’t begin to add up how many walks on the shore of Lake Michigan I’ve taken over the course of my life, but an average of two per week since I was about 5 equals about … well, a lot. And until about four years ago […]
Hi gang. First of all, thank you so much for reading this blog. I hope you enjoy it and that it becomes one of your daily (OK, maybe not daily, but let’s shoot for semi-weekly) reads. There are a lot of little things that come up that I don’t post about on the blog, though. […]
Lauren over at Pure Style Home encouraged everyone to create a free bouquet to brighten up their homes and it occurred to me that I also needed to do some pruning and might be able to kill two birds with one stone. I have several baby hydrangeas growing in pots in the Pit of Despair. […]
If you had told me a few weeks ago that I was going to fall head over heels in love with a red, orange and purple hanging basket I would have laughed out loud. Purple and orange? Oh yeah … love it. Red and purple? A little too Red Hat Society for me, but I […]
There is nothing like visiting a great garden to give you a jolt of inspiration and one that I like to visit every year is the garden at the Hotel Iroquois on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Before I even thought much about gardens I remember falling in love with an entire garden of huge alliums growing […]
As you might have guessed, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus. I had intended to do a bunch of posts before I left but I’m such a procrastinator that I was lucky I had time to throw my toothbrush in a bag, much less stock up on blog posts. In any case, a […]
You have to admit that the ugly black wrought iron railing by our front door is a bit depressing. It was green before I painted it black and I think that might have been even more depressing. Maybe someday we’ll change that railing out for something more attractive (although how you’d do that I have […]
‘Tis the season for garden walks and garden tours, and last week our master gardener group did a progressive dinner and garden tour of three members’ gardens. I love getting a peek at other people’s gardens. There is nothing like experiencing a garden firsthand to get great ideas to take home to your own garden. […]
Pairing plants in the garden is one of the things I struggle with. I take heart in the fact that I think it takes a lot of gardeners a long time to get the knack of what looks best with what, and that the beauty of gardening is that you can (almost) always move plants […]
Some changes are underway here at The Impatient Gardener. I decided to invest a bit in shaping things up here, making it easier to read and navigate and hopefully a more pleasurable place to be around. I’m also working on some other ways for you to connect with the blog (social media and all that […]
We had a big rain last night, and I’m a poor staker, so my beloved (and sparse) delphiniums all flopped. There is a good side to this, which is that I was free to cut them and bring them inside (I’m normally too tight to cut too many flowers). The rain also made a few […]
One of the inspiration photos I’ve collected from Houzz. I liked the white (but not too white) walls and the slim band of accent tile that goes all the way around the room. I especially like the one vertical band, which I think helps add some height to the room. Sometimes I wonder if I […]
Go to the beach all the time. Hudson would be OK with that. Walk the dogs every single day. Hudson and Rita would be OK with that too. Give my dogs a lot more baths than I do. Have a garden that wasn’t a hot mess. Finish all the projects that have been lurking. See […]
The gang over at Young House Love featured this blog the other day so you might have already found it, but I can almost guarantee it will be the funniest thing you read today. Check out Catalog Living and get ready to laugh.
