A Storybook Life

My beautiful cottage garden, filled with bargains from my local garden center!
One of my favorite things to watch for in the spring, besides my garden coming alive, is… the opening up of local garden centers.
I get such joy, when I see the workers pulling out bags of fertilizer, soil mixes, and potted trees & shrubs, [...]

Three months later…

From front to back: blue salvia, knockout roses, gaura/chiffon cloud
I wanted to share a pictorial update on one of the brand new cottage gardens, that we created this year.
This coming Spring, we will also add a front cottage courtyard, and a side garden filled with fruit trees and ornamental fragrant shrubs.
For this new [...]

As I was browsing around my favorite local garden center, I spied a brand new shipment of BEAUTIFUL succulents that had just arrived! (I try to stop in often so I can jump on any unadvertised sales, and to see what’s new.)
Well… as I was taking in the beauty and intricacies of each little plant [...]

When we started working on the landscaping for our cottage in the woods, we were unsure of how to handle the hill that joined the side of the house with our country lane.
Initially I really wanted some stairs leading up to the front door, otherwise we would always have to enter the house through [...]

Decorating Pumpkins Without Carving

Picture by Joy – stop by her Flickr page!
Today I wanted to share some more ideas for using pumpkins to decorate your home & garden without having to carve them.
There are so many ways that you could choose to decorate your home for the season. For some reason, when it comes to [...]