Six more Fall Container Garden and Window Box ideas to inspire you and help you bring autumn to your landscape. These ‘recipes’ follow the five that were published earlier. The previous post also included some general tips for successful fall containers; make sure you pop back to see them. You can see all my Container…
Raised garden beds are a great option for raising vegetables, providing an optimal environment for growth. Among other benefits, raised beds allow for easy access and management and the ease of soil enrichment. So, let’s dive into the advantages and disadvantages of raised bed vegetable gardening, the best vegetables for raised bed gardens, what vegetables…
Use these five Fall Container Garden Ideas & the eight tips for planting successful and thriving container gardens to bring some autumn charm to your landscape. As I’ve mentioned before, I collect container garden ideas like others collect recipes. I’ll snap pics of planters I like and then take inspiration from the plant combination to…
More window box and container garden inspiration and recipes to get your creative juices flowing as you plan your garden this spring and summer. This is the fifth post in our ongoing Container Garden series. If you’d like to go back for some of the other ideas and suggestions, you can start with the Container…
It’s Spring! Which means that we are busy figuring out our container gardens for the Spring and Summer, and possibly even into the Fall. This is the third installment of Container Garden Ideas and Container Garden Recipes; I just can’t help myself! When I see a planter that contains an assortment of plants that work…
Container gardening basics: Thrillers, Fillers, and Spiller Plants. Lists of suggested container plants and container plant combination ‘recipes’ and examples With spring fully here and summer not too far off, my mind is churning with everything garden. I’m planting my vegetable garden and pondering on what plants to add to my flower garden so that…
Idea for Spring Container Garden, plant combinations plus handy guidance on the Lowe’s plant tags and spring container planting ideas. You may have your doubts, but I do believe that Spring is really just around the corner. I know…some of you are reading this with snow on the ground or snow in the forecast and…
Fall Container Garden and Front Porch Ideas using Grocery Store Produce, Vegetables and Herbs I do love a front porch. Especially a big, expansive front porch that invites you to sit and enjoy the world passing. I might not have a ‘big, expansive front porch’, but I do have a small to medium-sized front porch….
More lovely container garden ideas, inspiration and recipes. Lovely container garden images and plant combinations from thriller plants to spiller plants and filler plants and everything in between. Hello friends! It’s that time again! What time would that be, Lynn? Well silly, it’s time to get our Container Garden ideas on paper, planned and planted…of…
Just as I love to collect cookbooks and food recipes, I love to find beautiful container gardens and collect container garden recipes! This time of year we are all trying to get our yards, gardens, decks, and patios in tip-top shape for the summer months. While I absolutely love working on the garden beds in…
Hello there friends! I don’t know about you, but I am chomping at the bit to get out and work in the dirt. I am a wee bit behind in my outdoor gardening tasks. Between weekend trips back and forth to college for our daughter’s spring break, taking my son to visit colleges on his…
I promise, there are no jokes included! If you asked my son about his favorite holiday growing up, he would likely say, “April Fool’s Day!” I may have gone a bit overboard with devious plans on that day, which then explains his devious plans when he was older. I may have (inadvertently, of course) made…
Well, I’m happy to report that I have no tales of woe this week! It’s been a busy, fun-filled seven days. We gathered with our game night crew on Friday night for a card game of ‘Oh Hell.’ We tried remembering when we started gathering, and it’s been nine or ten years! Yay for us!…
Good Morning, Friends! And welcome to March! March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. Hal Borland Last week, I closed the newsletter by saying, “Well friends, I am mostly back in the saddle for the rest of this week and I have…
Good morning, friends. September 11 is always a somber day here in the U.S. At the same time; it is a day to honor the bravery of our firemen and policemen. Maybe more than the image of the planes flying into the two towers, the image of firemen and policemen rushing into those burning buildings…
Good Morning, friends. I’m enjoying the last morning of the gorgeous, cool weather ushered in by Idalia late last week. It was a wonderful late August treat! Throwing the windows and enjoying fresh air is very high on my list of Good and Great Things. Mom came for dinner last night and we used the…
