To escape the winter blues, try your hand at creating an easy to assemble succulent beach scene that is as beautiful as it is easy to take care of.
Bringing Spring In-Forcing Bulbs
Bring spring in with forcing easy to bloom bulbs for color and fragrance. Learn how to force Hyacinths, Paperwhites, and Amaryllis for lots of blooms in the winter months ahead.
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Amaryllis Centerpiece
Using a simple potted Amaryllis bulb with fresh greens, moss, branches, and pinecones, learn how to make a fabulous Christmas centerpiece that will last you through the holidays.
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Fairytale Christmas
When you can't garden outside, what's a gardener to do? Here are some options for gardening in miniature, from gingerbread houses with landscaping, mini globe gardens, to miniature train gardens.
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Creative Fall Containers Start With Foliage Plants
Creative fall containers start with great foliage plant selections. Set the stage in the fall with plant choices that will last all season long and save on your gardening budget with foliage plants that last.
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Container Lust
I love putting containers together and saw some especially beautiful ones this spring that stopped me in my tracks. I did not create them, but I wished I had! I took pictures and thought maybe one day I would duplicate them. I am constantly amazed at what others put together so creatively. Like a canvas …
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Containers With Pizazz ! Not Your Ordinary Container!
Finesse With Containers Anyone with a flower pot can put together a container in an afternoon with a trip to the local big box store or nursery. But here are a few pointers which help with the final result that will turn your finshed product from the pedestrian geranium with vinca vine to a showplace masterpiece …
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The Realm of Fairy- Creating Fairy Gardens
The Philadelphia Flower Show Gardener's Studio I am going to present at the Philadelphia Flower Show Gardener's Studio on March 4th and am very excited about the topic. Since the theme for the flower show is Brilliant!, which is celebrating Great Britain, I thought that designing fairy gardens would fit right in, kind of like …
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Broken Pot Garden- Home for a Gnome!
To see an updated version of this post, go to Happy Gnoming. I saw this on Pinterest one day and pinned it to a board and forgot about it. But I noticed it the other day and decided to make it. It was harder to do than I thought because cutting a terra cotta pot is …
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MANTS Show – Part 2
Proven Winners' Goji Berries- The Next Super Food I checked out the Proven Winners' introductions at Spring Meadow Nursery at the latest MANTS show, to see what is the latest and greatest in shrubbery! Goji Berries are the new berry bush that is being promoted as a healthy and tasty berry addition to the landscape. I …
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50 Shades of Black
Black is Beautiful For my updated post on black flowers, check out Black Goes With Everything. There has been an explosion of black flowers and foliage in the past couple of years in the gardening world. It started out as a trickle and now is a tsunami of everything black! When I go to the nursery …
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Miniature Gardens – Whimsical Creations
Trough Gardens I am a garden designer by trade and normally design gardens in full size, but also love to design gardens in miniature! There is something unique about creating a complete space in small scale that is so satisfying and fun! I can have garden features that I have only dreamed about - like a bridge over …
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