#GARDENGIVEAWAY: Crown Bees
THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED – The winner was Modern Mia. I’ve filed this post under Garden Hacks, because adding Crown Bee, the gentle bee company, products to your garden is the best tip and trick you...
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THIS #GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED This week’s giveaway is from DeWit Tools. They are giving away their gift-set of 3 products: The forged lady’s Trowel The forged lady’s Fork The 3 tine Cultivator To enter a...
View Article50 Ways to Garden With Confidence: Color!
CHAPTER 18 ADDING COLOR TO YOUR GARDEN Color is what excites people most in a garden design—color in the flowers, the accents, and even in the furniture during the cold of winter. When visiting a...
View ArticleTo color or not to color?
When it comes to color, I’m not usually hesitant to add. But this one has me stymied. My wonderful next-door neighbors have a Ligustrum hedge they inherited from the previous owners. It’s nice...
View Article50 Ways to Garden With Confidence: Layers
CHAPTER 45 LAYERING THE LANDSCAPE Low to the ground or raised high, layers in your landscape give you the opportunity to add more plantings to your garden by taking advantage of each plane level. The...
View Article#Gardengiveaway: Proplugger
THIS #GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! Have you heard of the Proplugger 5-IN-1 planting tool? I got one last year and it made planting 100+ daffodil bulbs from Brent and Becky’s Bulbs a cinch! This spring I’m...
View Article50 Ways to Garden With Confidence: Level Changes
CHAPTER 33 LEVEL CHANGES Slopes and hills, bumps and dips—a garden often comes in many shapes. Whether your garden is naturally contoured or you decide you want to introduce some profile to your...
View ArticleGardening With Confidence: Mailbox Gardens
CHAPTER 35 MAILBOX GARDENS First impressions may be wrong, but they are always right for that moment. Most of us living in suburban neighborhoods pass our mailboxes several times a day. We put in our...
View ArticleGardening with Confidence: Kids in The Garden
CHAPTER 40 KIDS IN THE GARDEN My garden at home was designed specifically with kids in mind. We moved in when my oldest was one—and now my youngest is eleven. So you can imagine that I would have been...
View ArticleGardening with Confidence: Gardening with Confidence
CHAPTER 50 GARDENING WITH CONFIDENCE When you first hear this title, you might think it a bit cocky. It’s not meant to be. It was given to me by my husband, David, as he watched me work in the garden....
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