A Trip Down Memory Lane ~ My Former Garden
Today I’m taking you with me on a trip down memory lane to my former garden. Our brick split-level sat on a seventy-five by one hundred foot lot in a development established in the 1950s and looked pretty much like all the other homes around us. Over the course of thirteen years, using landscaping
Spring is Just Around the Corner ~ Start Planning!
Spring is still a little over a month away but it is not too soon to start planning this year’s garden. If you are like me, you head off to a nursery, fall in love with some wonderful plants, bring them home and then have to figure out where they should go in
The DCH Workshop ~ Pushing Spring: Early Planting for the Impatient Gardener (with Alice & George Davis)
Since we all have the heebie-jeebies for spring around February, the Delaware Center for Horticulture recently held a seed-starting workshop to offer some relief. Early seed starting can take place in pots for later transplanting, in cold frames for early harvest or in the garden as soon as the ground can be worked. Our workshop
DIY Project ~ Summer Enchantment in a Jar!
A dear friend and fellow gardener has her birthday in mid-February when there’s nothing happening in our gardens. Like me, she is longing for better weather and being outdoors with green plants all around. So, this year, I decided to make a tiny jar of summer enchantment to carry her through until spring! Follow
Blogosphere ~ Celebration Time for Our Fairfield Home and Garden!
Last Thursday was a banner day for Our Fairfield Home and Garden headed up by this wonderful article by The News Journal gardening columnist, Moira Sheridan, and topped off with reaching 22,000 site visits and 5,000 Pinterest followers all on the same day! The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, just a couple of days
Floral Workshop ~ A Winter Palette
Nearing the end of January and all gardeners are yearning for flowers and green plants. Leave it to Emily Smith to dream up a beautiful arrangement to satisfy and do away with the cabin fever in all of us! For this Delaware Center for Horticulture workshop, Emily put together more muted toned flowers in a birch
January ~ Winter Garden
January and winter has set in with temperatures in the teens and flurries of snow here in Delaware. Take a walk with me through the fresh snow and see how the everyday is transformed into the extraordinary. Snow, the icing on the cake!
DIY Project ~ Amaryllis Heart Wreath
During the Christmas holidays, I spied a beautiful wreath planted with amaryllis bulbs. The price made me suck in my breath, so I thought up a way to make my own version at home. All you’ll need is amaryllis bulbs (I used two small ones), potting soil (water retentive variety), netting (I reused a
Be My Valentine ~ Valentine decor
Valentine’s Day is coming and I am adding little heart touches around the house, inside this time! Of course, most of my holiday decorations have a garden touch included, a bulb or plant is a requirement around here! Even my circular knitting needles curled up into a heart when I put them down! We’re in
Heart & Home ~ Valentine’s Day is Coming!
Mid- winter now and, besides a couple brief snows, the garden is quiet. Time to look to a wonderful winter blooming shrub: Mahonia Japonica, for adding a bit of color to the landscape and outside decor. Since Valentine’s Day is in a month, I decided to change up a few outdoor displays today. Out came
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