This is one of those projects that you start by pulling something out of your donation boxes with the thought that you could make something new with it but not quite sure what. Months later it goes back in the donation boxes, just to be pulled out again…
A friend gave me these pots. Even though they were not my style, I took them anyway because they were free and I wanted some large planters for my side deck. But they were sad, ugly things no matter what I planted in them—until this spring, when I…
Did you know a single brown bat can consume up to 1000 mosquitoes in one hour? I live on a very wooded lot, and the insects can be unbearable during the summer months, especially the mosquitoes at night! This year, to encourage even more bats and birds to…
Spring is finally here, and with it come our dreams and plans to get our hands dirty and make our outside world beautiful. Do you have a plan already, or are you just going to buy and plant the next pretty bush you see at the garden center?…
My house used to have a pool. In fact, when we first toured the house there was this very large, above ground pool with clean water and a sprinkler fountain. A few months later when we actually closed on the house and we finally moved in we found…
