Category Archives: DIY home and garden craft projects

I can’t get enough of DIY garden craft projects and especially those that are inexpensive and involve repurposing items already in your yard. Come see what I have been up to! You can also see my DIY projects on Hometalk.

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  DIY Project ~ Make a Succulent Wreath

  Posted on June 19, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects

  Were you one of those mud-pie making, play-in-the-dirt kind of kids? Well. if you were, this is the project for you:  Making a succulent wreath! Lenny Wilson, Assistant Director of Horticulture & Facilities at The DCH, donned his presenter hat this week and explained how easy it is to make one. He had done the [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Hose Guides from Curtain Rods!

  Posted on June 16, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art

      Have you seen the price of decorative hose guards lately? Well, I have and it made my blood pressure rise! Since early spring I have been on the hunt for pretty hose guards to prepare for the inevitable dry spells of summer. My flower beds curve around the yard and gazebo.So pulling the [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Country Flower Basket

  Posted on June 13, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, Bringing the garden inside, DIY home and garden craft projects

  For the last arrangement in TheDCH Floral Workshop series, “The Nose Knows” was the theme. A country basket filled with free form meadow wildflowers, garden cuttings and fragrant florist flowers was created by instructor Brenda Tunis. Incorporating scent into your flower arranging was the focus. Brenda had clipped samples from her own yard for us [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Blooming Topiary

  Posted on May 27, 2013 by Barb in Bringing the garden inside, DIY home and garden craft projects, Things that inspire me in the garden

      At a recent workshop, TheDCH floral instructor, Brenda Tunis, led us through the steps of creating a beautiful blooming topiary. This is an easy, but quite striking floral arrangement perfect for your dining or picnic table. For this arrangement we used the following materials: a clay pot & saucer with a plastic insert [...]

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  DIY Project ~ TheDCH Hypertufa Workshop

  Posted on May 7, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Things that inspire me in the garden

                      Rad McFarlane and Arle Kruckeberg, members of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society, recently brought their expertise to TheDCH for a hypertufa trough workshop and discussion of the related topic of rock gardening. Rock gardening is comprised of freely draining [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Mother’s Day Fairy Garden

  Posted on May 5, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, DIY home and garden craft projects, Things that inspire me in the garden

      Just in time for a Mother’s Day project, I found a cracked birdbath sitting in a neighbor’s curbside trash. I have been saving little bits of things to make some fairy gardens and this just plopped into my lap (actually the front passenger seat of my car). Although it looks more extensive, this [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Gather Flowers for a May Day Basket!

  Posted on April 28, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, DIY home and garden craft projects, Things that inspire me in the garden

    May Day Baskets were something we made of construction paper in elementary school back in the day, but I haven’t seen much about them for years. If I get a vote, we should bring this neighborly rite of spring back! Very simple and fun besides: just gather fresh blooms from your spring garden, insert [...]

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  Let the Gardening Begin!

  Posted on April 26, 2013 by Barb in Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more, DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

    The potting sink is set up and ready for action, bird baths filled and the dogwoods blooming! Let the Gardening begin!    

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  DIY Project ~ April Showers Gathering Vase

  Posted on April 25, 2013 by Barb in Amazing flower pairings, Bringing the garden inside, DIY home and garden craft projects

  Welcome to Brenda Tunis, TheDCH‘s new floral arranging instructor, who brought a wonderful gathering vase project for us to create. Imagine a lovely cutting garden full of color and scent and then put it into a vase, that’s what we got to do! This more traditional bouquet style is designed by placing the tallest flowers [...]

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  DIY Project ~ Raised Beds for Free!

  Posted on April 14, 2013 by Barb in DIY home and garden craft projects, Recycled and repurposed items as garden art, Things that inspire me in the garden

  Who says you can’t get something for nothing? I just finished two raised beds made from my neighbor’s old shutters and odds and ends of  left over wood,  then painted them with surplus deck paint! ZERO COST!! For quite a while, I have admired all sorts of wonderful homemade and commercial raised beds seen on [...]

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