Yellow is the color of happiness, hope, and friendship. Fill your garden with sunny yellow perennials to create a breathtaking display of joyful color. Perennial flowers grow back every year. Therefore, these plants make an excellent choice for a low-maintenance garden you can enjoy year after year. Plant some yellow perennials to brighten up your…
Four o’clock flowers are so named due to their shyness in direct, bright sunlight. When growing four o’clocks, you will notice their tendency to close their blooms during the hottest part of the day and open their flowers after the sun heads for the horizon. Therefore, the name four o’clocks is pretty accurate… Although, my…
Where we live, the garden is just about done come fall. By October, we’ve squeezed as much gardening out of the fall as we’re likely to get. Now i’s time to put the garden to bed. Sometimes the bugs and garden pests have decimated crops and other times second waves of plantings are still going…
We all need more pollinators in our gardens! Try this awesome bumble bee painted rock craft on a rainy day or any time you’re feeling crafty. This bee rock painting project is great for kids of all ages, including preschoolers! Painting rocks for the garden and neighborhood as kindness rocks can be such a memorable…
Dads who love to garden are sure to love gifts that fit their favorite hobby. Father’s Day gardening gifts work great for Dad, father-in-law, stepdad, husband, or any special guy in your life. My dad enjoys growing his tomatoes and zinnias. His dad before him enjoyed spending time in the garden as well. (So did…
Every time we go to the beach, we always come home with seashells. It’s peaceful and serene and relieves my stress to walk with my girls along the shoreline picking up shells. Now we finally have a use for them – seashell plant labels for outdoor garden beds! This garden craft works so well on…
I may be a little obsessed… no matter how many seeds I buy or swap, I still NEED SEEDS. It’s really fun to be a collector of something so small yet so meaningful! I thought I’d put together a list of some of the best places to buy seeds – or swap for them! I…