A quick note before I get into Friday Finds: Next week I’m going to be doing a giveaway EVERY DAY. I’ve assembled some of my very favorite gardening items (most of which you’ll find I’ve written about before) and I’m giving them away to you. Although I didn’t plan it this way, it happens to coincide with the 6th anniversary ...
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 ...
Next week I’ll touch base on the progress on all the seeds I’ve been starting this year, but thanks to this new mini greenhouse, I’ll be able to get most of the plants out of the back room this weekend. For about $130 this was gardening money very well spent. Great. First I wanted pygmy goats, now I want this ...
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 ...
New House New Home photo Heather is looking back at springs past. I will absolutely be making these cocktails this spring. Would you ever paint your house black? Look how cute this one is. I do love dahlias and I’m not the only one. I will be potting up dozens of them this weekend to give them a head start ...
I’ve never been known to whip through projects quickly, but adding a pergola to our garage certainly took longer than most. Although I first mentioned adding a pergola (among other changes) on the blog way back in October 2013, we didn’t start actually building it until last fall. We used this article from This Old House for reference, but for ...
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It’s a good thing there is no social services organization that regulates garden care, because I would most certainly be under investigation. I’m really embarassed about it and I’m not sure how things slipped away quite so badly this year, but the current state of my garden is somewhere in the realm of reprehensible. For [&h
Well, the garden has been neglected and the blog moreso. Been sailing … but stay tuned, I’ll be back soon. Promise!
I use the word reveal with hesitation because I’ve seen full on kitchen re-dos and this isn’t one of those … it just took about as much time as one. It started in October with the hunt for a table, and I found it at the Restoration Hardware outlet last October. Then came the banquette. […]
I’ve been a bit lax in posting lately, but I can’t help it: The weather here has been so wonderful it would be criminal to spend any more time inside than necessary. Memorial Day weekend was probably the nicest I remember, maybe ever. And the plants are just as excited about this amazing spring and […]
Few days are so bad that coming home to find this sitting on your porch doesn’t make you forget all your troubles: And the only thing more fun than tearing into that box, is tearing into that box when you have no idea what’s inside. I’m participating in the Proven Winners garden writers plant trials, […]
So, I know I promised to reveal our partial kitchen makeover soon, but a bit of wrench has been thrown in that plan. Remember how the sneak peek looked a couple weeks ago? Allow me to refresh your memory. Here it is: I wanted to get a nice set of pictures to show you the […]
I’ve spent most of my free time this week studying. I’ve been spending a lot of time with this book: In my experience the guides published by DK are the best around, particularly their travel guides which cost much more than their competitors but are so much better, particularly for places where you don’t speak […]
I’m so excited to be swapping guest posts with Rayan at The Frugal Designer today. Rayan is a mega overachiever who can help you build the most amazing furniture, finish that furniture (wait until you see my kitchen table, which Rayan has been holding my hand through the process of finishing), help solve your garden […]
I have met the enemy, and it is Alliaria petiolata. “Alliaria petiolata.” That was all my friend’s Facebook status said the other day. I instantly knew her pain. Alliaria petiolata, better known as garlic mustard weed, is the kind of thing that can ruin your day and maybe even your summer. And many summers to […]
I am OH so close to revealing my mini kitchen redo, although after six months of talking about this I’m not sure it can be called “mini” anymore. I’m very excited about it so until I put the finishing touches on it (and it stops being so lousy outside that I can get some decent […]
We only have one flowering tree in the yard. It’s a Serviceberry, which is a lovely, tough-as-nails small tree or large shrub. It’s commonly seen around here in its multi-trunked form in parking lots, hellstrips and other places where it can be planted and left. In our yard it’s the corner piece to what I […]
I have a new must-have for my garden. This is the first year I’ve grown Allium ‘Ivory Queen’. She’s just poking up now so I’ve not had the opportunity to see the flower yet, but I’m already so enamored with it that the flower almost doesn’t matter. Thick, deep blue leaves are emerging. They look […]
I’m a bit obsessed with window boxes these days. I think they are so charming and can cure a multitude of house exterior sins. If I were selling a house, I think a window box would be right up there on the must-do list for curb appeal. So, you might wonder, why am I just […]
Professional painters amaze me. They are so neat. So fast. So not covered in paint when they are done and tracking it all over the house. I’m none of those things, yet I sort of like painting. And I’ve always sort of wondered about hiring a professional painter. My theory on it was that unless […]
