Archive for category: Cottage Gardening

Flowers for the Cottage Garden

This week I made a stop at my local Lowe’s garden center. I try to stop in frequently throughout the summer, because there are always so many unadvertised specials to be found! While I was there this week, I overheard a sales person talking with a customer, trying to explain the over abundance…

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Delicious Summer Pasta – and new visitors to the cottage garden

This is a quick, easy, cheap, come back for seconds family dish! Pasta salad is the perfect side dish for any summer meal! You can also change the recipe very easily by tossing in any of your favorite ingredients right from the cottage garden! Cook your favorite kind of pasta while you’re making…

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Humming Bird Feeder – Vintage Glass Look

I wanted to show you this great new humming bird feeder that I picked up at my local Walmart for $9.95! The reason it caught my eye (besides the fact that it was deep red – my favorite color… for now , was because I thought that it was a thick red wine bottle that

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Gardening – Fill Your Cottage Gardens With Free Plants!

I love to dream – and one of the things that I love to dream about is my cottage garden. I pull out back issues of my favorite magazines, gardening books, and seed catalogues to add to the plethora of ideas already stored in my mind’s eye. There is one small problem however. When you

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Winter Snow in Upstate NY

As you’ve probably heard all over the news, we’ve been getting more than our share of snow over the last few days here in Upstate, NY. We are VERY used to getting snow (and lots of it), but this year has been very mild with almost no snow until last week. Then… it all started

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Cactus – Pink Flowers of the Thanksgiving Cactus

Pink Flowers to brighten your day! When all the leaves have fallen, and you know that snow is around the corner, there’s nothing better than beautiful blooms to give you a quick pick-me-up! I have several different cactus (or cacti) around my home, and even though most of the year they just sit…

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