I think March must be the most challenging month in my neck of the woods. It feels like it should be spring. The stores are filled with pastel everything, magazine covers are fresh and bright and lucky friends who live even a little bit south of here are in the full-on throes of springtime. But it is not spring here. ...
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, begging you to follow them to ...
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 the average snowfall, thanks to ...
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 mistakes. One of the most ...
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 the same thing, so that’s ...
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 though, that I can help ...
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 as that,” Lady Violet says. If you’re not a “Downton Abbey” fan (or if you ...
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F irst, some exciting news. I’ve been selected to be part of Proven Winners’ writers’ distribution. This means that I’ll get some new varieties of plants to trial prior to their release (so I will get a sneak peek at the 2011 introductions). I’ll also be going to Proven Winners Outdoor Living Extravaganza M
Maya over at Completely Coastal has some cool giveaways going on so go check them out!
L indsey over at the Better After blog featured my freecycle buffet-turned-bookcase today. I’m flattered, since the Better After blog is one of my go-to places for inspiration. Some of the things people come up with is amazing. There are so many creative people in this world. In case you’re a fan of before and […]
I t’s funny how my opinion of blogging has changed in the last year or so. I used to think that blogging was the ultimate in self-indulgence. I guess I assumed that most people were using blogs as an online journal. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Blogging has opened up a forum for creative […]
I t’s my birthday today. I tell you that not because I’m fishing for birthday wishes but because I was given an awfully nice gift this morning: blueprints for our potential house renovation. I’ve been waiting for these for awhile … about seven years, give or take, since I knew from the moment I walked […]
O r is it the other way around? I’m in the midst of a bit of an experiment with paint right now. I’m painting my NEW BANQUETTE!!!!!!! (Can you tell I’m a little excited?) A great craftsman took my rambling notes and turned what was in my head into reality … and then he installed […]
T he winner of my 100th post giveaway is the super talented and multi-blogging Maya from Completely Coastal and A Beach Lover’s Place. Maya opted for the subscription to House Beautiful magazine so three years of great design inspiration are headed her way! Thanks for participating, everyone!
A nyone remember Urkell from that annoying sitcom? The geek who wore his pants pulled up a foot past his belly button and said in a nasal-filled voice, “Did I do that?” That’s what’s going through my head as I look at this picture. I can’t help it. I’m a murderer. A plant murderer. The […]
I n celebrating this 100th post on this blog since April 27, 2009 I thought a long time about what sort of giveaway I should do. Maybe give away 100 of something. A hundred plants, 100 bucks, 100 … um … paint samples (actually I’m getting dangerously close to being able to do that one, […]
T here is nothing better than a flower or garden show for a gardener stuck in the middle of winter. Actually, I would imagine they’d be great even if you live somewhere you can garden most of the year, because they are a fantastic place to get new ideas. Gardening is all about inspiration, which […]
T he Impatient Gardener is just three two posts away from 100 posts, and I think it only fitting that we do some kind of giveaway to celebrate. I haven’t decided what it will be yet, but it will be good (and it will probably be a gift card to some store you REALLY want […]
H ave you caught the new show “Curb Appeal: The block” on HGTV? I’m really loving it. The premise is that they go to a neighborhood and pick the shabbiest house on the block and give it a $20,000 makeover. That’s great, especially if you’re the lucky person in the shabby house. But what’s neat […]
I t’s such a nice time of the year to be a gardener. Everything is possible. Energy is unlimited. New gardens that live in our brains all make perfect sense, and everything grows just as it should, even if you are pushing it a zone or sticking a full sun plant in partial shade. And […]
E very once in a while inspiration strikes. That happened Friday night and it came on so strongly (I think you might have been able to see the light bulb over my head) that even though I was snuggled under the blanket, I jumped up from the couch to run from the basement to grab […]
