Violas and pansies are budget friendly flowers that last for months in the spring and in the fall. Find out how to assemble an easy springtime arrangement using these fragrant beautiful blooms.
Boxwood -The Ultimate Green for Christmas
Boxwood greens are the ultimate Christmas decoration. From tabletop trees, to garlands, and wreaths, boxwood lends itself to creating a great looking long lasting decoration.
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Pumpkin Treats-Decorating with Succulents
Succulents and pumpkins go together like peanut butter and jelly. Decorating the pumpkins with succulents gives you a long lasting Thanksgiving decoration that requires little care.
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Hypertufa Party
How to make a beautiful garden trough with all the character of a carved stone English feeding troughs traditionally made out of granite.
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Miniature Christmas Garden Craze
It is easy to create a mini landscape in a small pot or terrarium to It makes a great gift for someone who can't have their own outdoor garden or who just wants to enjoy something growing during the long winter months.
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Centerpiece Ideas for Thanksgiving
Can't come up with a Thanksgiving centerpiece? Use natural materials and pumpkins to come up with a easy, low cost solution.
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Fall Pod Basket-Everlasting Decoration
Create an everlasting harvest pod basket with assorted cones, pods, and dried botanicals to decorate your Thanksgiving table.
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Beeswax-Honeybee Gift
Used for thousands of years as the duct tape of the ancients, today beeswax is still collected from the beehive and is an environmental friendly solution for many applications. Read how to make beeswax fabric for food storage, candles, soap, and honey body butter as well as some amazing facts about how bees produce it.
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Decorated Pumpkin with Pods, Berries, and Drieds
Here is an update on my post Succulent Pumpkins for the Fall at http://thegardendiaries.com/2013/10/23/succulent-pumpkins-for-the-fall/ using a white pumpkin. There are so many unusual pumpkins on the market today that I wanted to see how this color would work and I really liked it! I used more pods, added fresh variegated holly, winterberry, green amaranthus, and dried burgundy cockscomb …
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Plants at Your Fingertips!
Planted Furniture for the Patio I went to a cocktail party at a plant lovers house, saw his planted table and was enthralled! I was sure that I could create one just as good, if not better. I looked around for a table that I could buy and convert to a planted table, but it …
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Garden Hose Wreath
I am amazed at what you can do with old garden hoses! Here is another project to make using a small garden hose of 25 to 50' in length. Take a piece of hose including the nozzle end and roll it into a wreath shape, a size that will fit on your door. Fasten it securely …
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Old Hose – New Life
Have you ever thrown an old hose away and thought that there should be some use for it instead of clogging up the landfill? Here is something that anyone can do, even if your creativity is non-existent. I saw this on Pinterest, was intrigued, and figured out how to construct it. It took just a …
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