Posts Tagged ‘gardens’

Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful pots of annuals, or fill your window boxes with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials. One of the best ways to use window boxes or to use them in creative ways, specifically adding window boxes indoors, will be to use them with herbs. Whether you arrange your pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you’ll be delighted with this simple way to create a garden. Learn More

When you are out walking in the wood or the fields, and you find some gorgeous wildflowers, most of us wish that we could find a way to make them last a great deal longer. Believe it or not, preserving wildflowers nearly in their original shape is just not at all difficult. I was taught this trick by an old mountain man, heaven knows where he got it. It has proven to be the best way to dry flowers for me. They end up looking nearly perfect.

There is a great way of drying what you picked up along the way when you’re gathering wildflowers. It doesn’t require a lot of money and it doesn’t take a vast amount of time or energy.  There is an old favorite detergent that  is particularly good for drying yellow or white flowers such as dogwood or yellow roses. More useful than you may know is the old tried and true favorite detergent which used to be called 20 Mule Team Borax. Read the rest of this entry »

A butterfly garden is not necessarily a big endeavor, nor does it take a vast amount of space.
You can have a small nook in the back of a larger garden, or can take a small yard and use the whole thing to lure in the butterflies to your yard. Read the rest of this entry »

You can save vast sums of money on dried flowers and vines if you choose to dry your own.  Nearly anywhere that you purchase them, due to how many flowers it takes to make an arrangement as well as how long they take to dry, they will be quite costly,and can be dried yourself for about a fifth of what it will cost you to purchase a nice arrangement or a bouquet of dried florals. Read the rest of this entry »