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What To Do While in Quarantine Other Than Binge Watch Shows

(Photo by Morgan Vander Hart on Unsplash) I know a lot of people are bored right now and a little pissed off about having to stay home especially when St Patric...

11 Must Have Trees and Shrubs I’m Swooning Over for 2020

We have an acre, how many trees and shrubs can you fit on an acre before shading the whole thing out? Not sure but I think I’ve got room to add at least these… ...

12 Grasses for that Meadow Garden Look in Zone 5 or 6

Maybe grasses are trendy right now or maybe they’re really just timeless. They fill in spaces, add movement and color, and they look good through winter too. I’...

How I Found Happiness by Chasing that Little Voice

Photo by Matheus Frade on Unsplash We all have that funny little pestering feeling inside us. The one that we can probably blame for at least some of the unhapp...

How to Persevere in Finding a Unique New Home; A Stop on the Road to Your Dream

This was our old garden in March right before we sold the house. This is where I fell in love with gardening. It started with vegetables then herbs and fruit an...

What You Need to Know that No one told me about other people’s content…

Photo by Nathan Bingle on Unsplash I’d like to blame the snow falling outside my living room window but that wouldn’t be the real reason I stopped dead in my tr...

10 MUST HAVE Perennials For Zone 5 (PART 1)

Alright I’ve been making lists for weeks now of plants I want. I’ve ordered some but am holding back still on others. Why? Well because … money. Buying plants i...

How Starting a Garden Will Empower Your Life

Photo by Benjamin Combs on Unsplash We all experience the problems of living in the modern world, head to Google and type that in and you’ll find a barrage of f...

How Not to Design a Garden - But I’m doing it anyways

I went a bit overboard today and started online plant shopping. I’d had this order saved for weeks from Spring Hill Nursery and when they gave me a $100 off of ...

Natural Health - cures, remedies and recipes

I live in the UK and I hail from a long-lived family (both sides have a lot of ‘three score years and ten’ achievers). Add to that, my husband’s family. While s...

Live Edge Bar Project!

This project always reminds me of the South Park episode about “White People Renovating Houses”... “what I’m thinking is to take out the wall between the kitche...

My First Plant Order of the Year!

Turns out I have plants arriving as early as March 3rd! I forgot I even made the order and now with snow coming down I’m getting a bit nervous about what I’ll d...

FreeWrite FreeRead #1

Just a quick little FreeWrite I recorded and posted, I’m gonna try to make this a weekly thing. https://youtu.be/SKWjdrK822I Hey everyone! This is my first YouT...

7 Gardening Books I’m Reading to Get Psyched for Spring

Colorado has dynamic weather. Yesterday I wore shorts and a tank top. We had a picnic out back and worked outside all day even digging holes and sinking posts. ...

How I designed our Back Evergreen Privacy Screen

Have I mentioned I’m getting anxious for spring? Maybe we all are. I can’t help but flip through books, catalogues, and online shops of plants pining for so muc...

Step One of Starting a Cut Flower Garden (HINT: Choose Seeds!)

I wake up from a nap on the couch. It’s not even noon. Why am I so tired? Maybe it’s just that kind of day, gloomy. Or maybe it’s been Arya’s sleep schedule cha...

How to Tear Out A Wall and Add a Sliding Glass Door!

When we moved into our house in May we knew one of the first projects was going to have to be a back door. You see the house is a duplex and our upstairs home i...

Thrift Store Haul

Since the move I’ve tried really hard not to stop by any thrift shops. My true nature isn’t minimalism, it tends to be a bit on the “collector” side of things (...

What To Do About Time

Week 3 - Jan 20 2020 I remember when 2020 seemed so far away that it would never actually come and now it’s here. Time plodding along unending at least as we kn...

Snowdrops

It’s January but the days have been nice. Nice enough to spend time outside with Arya and to daydream about which plants will come back and which will secede wi...