Category: Bringing the garden inside

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY ~ A Fairy Merry Christmas!

Last year, I started making little fairies from natural materials gathered from our garden and walks around the neighborhood. They have been put to use as present toppers, plant pokes and little gifts for my friends and family up until recently. But ever since I shared my wee folk in a watercolor class I attend,

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY ~ Thanksgiving Cornucopia

  It’s Thanksgiving time. In addition to having that lovely home-cooked dinner, make a gorgeous centerpiece to complement it! And, if you aren’t the cook this year, this cornucopia of plenty will make the perfect house gift for your hosts. Best of all, you can put this centerpiece together for a fraction of the cost

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY ~ Seed Saving 101

Over the years, I have learned a few tricks for cutting corners and keeping garden costs down while still enjoying lots of beautiful flowers. On the very top of that list is saving seeds during each gardening season. Now some plants, such as foxglove, columbine, nasturtiums and cleome, have a tendency to reseed all by

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Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

Autumn Garden Accents Inside and Out !

  Leaves are drifting down, crunching under our feet as we pull our sweaters close for a mid-morning Fall walk outside. The wispy scent of wood smoke in the air from a neighbor’s fireplace is yet another autumn confirmation. Flowers are a sweet memory as I collect their dried remnants for filling the window boxes.

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY Project ~ Country Flower Basket

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

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY Project ~ Blooming Topiary

    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

Here you will find the recipes that show off the fruits of your labor in the garden. I also will share with you inexpensive craft projects for the home that bring the garden inside. Fairy plant pokes made from monkey balls and acorns and more!

DIY Project ~ Gather Flowers for a May Day Basket!

  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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