DIY Project ~ April Showers Gathering Vase
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
April 18th ~ What’s Blooming Today?
A quick evening stroll around the garden with camera in hand captures the new blooms of the day. Spring is truly here and each day reveals new flowers and emerging plants that have been dormant throughout the long winter. Longer days and warmer nights is the perfect combination to send them all bursting
DIY Project ~ Raised Beds for Free!
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
Mid-April ~ Spring Blooms in the garden
Here we are in mid-April and spring is in full swing now! Flowering trees, shrubs, bulbs and the fresh green of new leaves are emerging. It has cooled back down into the 50’s and 60’s during the day with cool nights, which is a blessing. Those high temperatures shortened the bloom time of
Spring Is Here! Early Spring Blossoms
In just two weeks time, our garden has gone from snow flurries to eighty degrees! And, with the warmth comes the glory of spring. Everything is growing so fast, I can see a difference from morning to nightfall in many plants. Here are some of the lovely early spring blooms that we are enjoying
Spring is Busting Out all Over!
This spring weather has me hopping around in all directions, not knowing what to do first! After finishing the window boxes and cleaning up some flower beds, it was time for some spring decorating outside. First, I tucked Tete a Tete Narcissus bulbs into the twig wreath on the back gate. Then, off to our
DIY Project ~ Welcome Spring! Time to change the window boxes!
After a surprise snow early in the week, it is suddenly spring. The trees are showing halos of green and red as buds prepare to unfurl and birdsong wakes me in the morning. Time to change out the front window boxes with the earliest spring blooms: bulbs. Gathered on the porch for protection for
Spring Snow ~ March 25th! The Groundhog lied!
Here it is March 25th and snowing to beat the band outside! That groundhog lied his head off! But, it is pretty, so I grabbed my camera and went out to capture a few shots of this year’s last snowfall (I hope!) I must admit that the snow makes a lovely backdrop, even
DIY Project ~ Vermicomposting in a tub in a few easy steps!
Hetty Franke, Master Gardener and “Queen of Compost in Delaware” recently held a workshop at TheDCH. Teaching all ages, from school children to senior citizens, Hetty’s mission for many years has been to make people aware that plant matter is also a resource, not trash. Composting of all kinds was discussed: aerobic composting (compost pile
DIY Project ~ Shades of Spring, a Green Bouquet
In the early spring, we see all the greens emerge first, followed by the initial blooms. In keeping with this early greening time of year, Emily Smith (TheDCH floral workshop diva), showed us how to make this striking bouquet using green flowers and leaves with hints of spring color. Sometimes a more neutral color
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