In spite of their rather unfortunate name, I just love Pussy Willows. My grandmother had a huge one in her front yard when I was a kid, and the fluffy blooms are so unusual and so soft. I’ve been keeping an eye out for one of my own, and I finally found them at Trader [...]
In October I fell in love with John and Sherry’s puffy paint pumpkins, but it seemed a shame to waste such a great idea on perishable pumpkins. So, when my maidenhair fern needed a planter to call home I went to work on an old glass vase. You’ll need: a glass vase a dry erase marker [...]
Our front door is on the side of our house. It’s really quite strange, but it seems like all the a-frame houses around here have side front doors. The view from our doorway is of the side of our neighbor’s house, so I thought I’d hang some plants out there to improve the scenery. I [...]
The weather is starting to cool off a tad, and it’s reminding me that I gave up on my gardening plan when the hot humidity and mosquito swarms of summer hit. I’m trying to get motivated again by replanting a few terra cotta pots on the deck. I love how container gardens look, but they [...]