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Today I am looking at reusing glass bottle stoppers in the garden. If you find an old glass bottle stopper, you can reuse it as art. Decorate a garden stake with one and place it as a plant stake …
Harvest chamomile blossoms fast. Designed by Johnny's using the traditional German pattern and handcrafted by a Maine blueberry farmer. This lightweight rake is easy to maneuver and allows you to quickly harvest chamomile blossoms for your teas and tinctures. Also effective for harvesting flax seed, grains, milky oat tops, and a variety of other blossoms and seed pods. 3" spring steel teeth; aluminum collector is 7 1/2" W x 6" D x 3" H. Includes an oiled, sustainably harvested hardwood handle. Read More
The Elecampane Has Started to Flower! One of the activities I do when I am not blogging in the winter is get out my copies of The Herb Companion magazine and come up with topics. I have always been interested in herb garden design. In the end I am basically just an herb plunker, herbally speaking! But this winter when I pulled out my magazines, I came across a wonderful array of lists and plans of herb plants for different situations. Maybe this will be my light bulb moment, herbally speaking! I was attracted to the elecampane when we were in France in 2011 and stopped at Chateau Val Jonais. Bonnie was kind enough to give me hers and now I need to plant some others to give it a bigger punch! The Elecampane Made a Statement at Val Jonais! I was just reminded that as a guest blogger for The Herb Companion aka Mother Earth Living, I wrote a post called Growing Big Herbs: Angelica, Borage and Tansy. That post talked about the tansy attracting all of the ladybugs and their eggs into the herb garden among other benefits. So big is just not taking up space. In this post I also referenced the article that I found this winter by Rob Proctor from a January 2000 magazine called Big is Beautiful: Grow Big Herbs for a Beautiful Garden. As I get older and want to do less weeding, I am looking to bigger fuller herbs and herbal shrubs to take up spaces and make a statement. Hopefully, you will find the right combination of herb plants from his list for your herb garden. Don't forget to use the Mother Earth Living website because they have the archived articles from The Herb Companion magazine available to you. I will try to keep sharing my finds in posts along the way! Also if you go to my home page that gives you a page of my guest posts for The Herb Companion and Mother Earth Living! The rain just continues to fall and the ickies and stickies are back. I have made several batches of raspberry jam already. So there is a silver lining in the rain. Hope you are having a great day wherever you may be. I will talk to you later.
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Built in 1930, a shingled seaside cottage and its sprawling gardens in Little Compton, Rhode Island had seen better days by the time Dara and Dan Brewster
The gardening and landscaping experts at HGTV.com share beginner tips to help even newbie gardeners green up their thumbs.
A few weeks ago we blogged an article in the LA Times about No-Dig Gardens. They require less water than traditional gardens and they’re an easy way to start a raised bed. You can even start one right over a patch of grass you want to get rid of. Another easy gardening option is bringing the garden inside with grass you can grow indoors. Our friend and coworker, Hulda Nelson, tipped us off to the article.
Transform your outdoor space into a stunning purple paradise with these Best Purple Plants Landscaping Ideas!
Tried your hand at willow weaving? Here at AG we show you how to create an attractive living screen fence for your garden. Step 1 – Peg a strip of black membrane, 1ft (30cm) wide and as long as needed, to the ground. Once it’s in place push the edges into the soil with a spade. […]
Working with harmony with your garden is always best and plants need little attention better. Spend time noting of the characteristics of beds and borders carefully and choose appropriate plants to match each one. Plant ahead for your garden to make no mistake by considering the scale you have selected; plot plants with their mature size in mind to be sure they will fit. Research and find inspiration in books, magazines or on the internet.
I have a confession to make. I have a new obsession. And its called Lark Rise to Candleford. Lately there’s been so much sadness and terrible things in general in the news. I am one of t…
Take a walk down memory lane by touring the gardens at Kennerton Green in Mittagong, NSW. For more than two decades, the garden was tended to by Marylyn Abbott.
A scarecrow guards the garden at the 1875 Schottler (German) farm.
Now that he really can begin measuring for new drapes in the White House, I wonder what style Barack Obama would choose to redecorate his new home for the next four years? Federalist hip? Mid-century modern? There might be a more realistic chance of the exterior of the White House being overhauled. Michael Pollan recently wrote an open letter to the next president in an article for the Sunday New York Times’ Magazine advising him to plant a kitchen garden on the front lawn of the White House. Roger Doiron (below), founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, has strongly advocated for this as well. Kitchen gardens are a growing trend in gardening. As Pollan says, a presidential vegetable garden would set a wonderful example of sustainable living and help wean America off an agricultural industry that is dependent on oil. Lucky for us design freaks, a kitchen garden is also an aesthetic statement. Photo by Richard Felber for Domino The haute veggie patch of none other than Oscar de la Renta was featured in Domino magazine in September last year. Take a look at a beautiful slide show of this Connecticut garden here. Photo by Richard Felber for Domino According to Domino, de la Renta's garden applies the principles of a formal flower garden: strong structure, strict geometry and colour-blocking of plants. Photo by Richard Felber for Domino And it's not all about what the stars can achieve either. The magazine also offers vegetable garden designs, such as the one below, to enable you to transform your humble backyard into a patch of designer dirt, as well as a guide to planting a potted vegetable garden. A slightly more haphazard approach is taken by artist-turned-garden historian, Leslie Rose Close, the wife of artist Chuck Close. She has a thriving kitchen garden (below) at her home in Bridgehampton, New York, where she applies an artist's eye but leaves room for happy accidents. Photo by Gordon M. Grant for the NYTimesThere is a memorable article about her garden in the New York Times. "I can't imagine anything more wonderful to do," she says . "It's spiritual, physical, intellectual, aesthetic, sensual. I feel tied to the basic process of life." I know what she means. Although I'm a garden-less city-dweller, I recently spent a day harvesting spinach, lettuce and carrots in the greenhouse at the Stone Barns Farm (above) in Tarrytown, NY. There was something very novel and satisfying about gently pulling a carrot out of the silty earth, dusting off the soil and eating it right away. The farm supplies the on-site restaurant, Blue Hill Stone Barns, with fresh produce for its highly crafted cuisine. Maybe Blue Hill chef Dan Barber should start thinking about a new gig as White House chef?
Broomcorn produces big, fluffy seed heads that resemble the end of a broom. If you’re feeling crafty and would like to know more about using broomcorn as well as tips on harvesting the plant, click th
So ladies… How are those designs coming along? I have been getting emails of photographs of nice big, gorgeous backyards… I envy the space some of you have to work with! This evening I want to briefly talk about your design creativity & focal point. “A Potager is where form meets function. Where nutrition meets […]
Growing flax in your garden and making it into linen is a great experience. Linen is the name for flax fiber once it is made into thread. It is hard to believe that what you harvest in the summer, …
In the wild, roses (Rosa spp.) flourish beside tall grasses and native shrubs. Nature has...
My wild blue indigo (Baptisia australis) has many seed pods. Can I harvest them and grow plants from the seed? Are there special tricks to germinating baptisia?
Ever ask, “What can I make with old fencing?”. This upcycled old garden fencing cloche how-to will motivate you to pick up that old metal fence edging the next…
Coucou les filles, je vous ai trouvé 23 superbes idées de lits de jardin surélevés à faire à la maison pour organiser votre culture d'une façon pratique et
