Quick giveaway notes: The winner of the Perfect Garden Hose is Linnae! Congratulations, Linnae. Check your email. The rest of the giveaways are still open. The next to close is the giveaway of the A.M. Leonard Deluxe Soil Knife. There is efficient gardening and then there is the kind of gardening you do when a rainstorm is predicted that night. ...
It’s the final day of my favorite giveaways and I want to thank you for participating this week. If you haven’t already entered to win all the great items I’m giving away, you still can. I’m leaving every giveaway open for a week from when they began, but just enter them all now and then sit back and wait to ...
I’m so excited about today’s giveaway because this one is a life changer. Once you lay your hands on this, you will never look at gardening tools the same way again. But let me start with this: You deserve great gardening tools. I think way too many gardeners are quick to pick up a tool that’s cheap or easily acquired ...
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 ...
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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.
