Our Fairfield Home & Garden ~ 2023 Garden Tour
On Saturday, June 17th, the Delaware Center for Horticulture featured our suburban garden on tour. It was the fruition of preparing through seven weeks of drought, record high and low temperatures, smoke and then torrential downpours the week of the tour! Our garden was still lush and ready thanks to established perennials, shrubs and
Garden Musings at Our Fairfield Home & Garden
As I stroll through the garden, I love to note the small evolutions that have taken place from year to year. Letting the lawn grow naturally into predominately clover and violets has been an effort but worthwhile. It took a few years of digging up nut sedge and plantain by hand, but now the clover
Repurposed Birdbath Succulent Planter
Sometimes things just fall into place, you know? A sweet friend dropped off two egg cartons full of divisions from her Hens & Chicks last week. I had been trying to decide where to plant them and hadn’t settled on an idea yet. Then, yesterday I saw my neighbors carrying their old birdbath to the
Succulent Wheelbarrow Planter
So, what do you do when you have an old stump to camouflage, a wheelbarrow with holes and dribs and drabs of different outdoor succulents? Why, make a planter of course! This old wheelbarrow had seen better days and had quite a few rusted out holes in the bottom of it. Placing a few pieces
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Keys to Happiness
- Amazing flower pairings
- Bird sanctuaries, baths, feeders and more
- Bringing the garden inside
- Celebrate the creativity of featured artists
- container planting
- DIY home and garden craft projects
- Field Trip
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- Garden Tools
- Home Cooking
- Home decor
- Recycled and repurposed items as garden art
- Things that inspire me in the garden
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