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Decorating with lavender works inside as well as outside! It looks perfect in pots around the house, and looks especially great in a kitchen!
Easy homemade African Violet fertilizer you can make from common household items that you already have on hand.
Medicinal plants and healing herbs are a great addition to the garden. Find out which ones are best to grow.
Most gardeners are familiar with daylilies, peonies, hostas, and iris, but other perennials can add color and interest.
Celebrate the Gallic flair for bloom-filled spaces.
Oh, May! Late-Spring How can so much beauty be grasped? Continuing through to the height of spring, Gilmore Garde...
I undertook a major landscape redesign project last spring of the side garden of my home. Now that it’s grown in some, I want to show you how it turned out, which I’ll do soon. Today, I want to show you my garden “mood board.” It’s not a mood board in the traditional sense, but a collection of image
Add color to your shaded garden from early spring to fall with these beautiful perennial flowers for shade.
Gladioli are beautiful plants and a favorite of many gardeners. Due to their height, many people often wonder if it?s possible to have a gladiolus container garden. This article will help with that.
i finally got my (four rolls of) film developed! these are from spring at longwood gardens. if you know what any of the flowers are called, please tell me! i'm not good at remembering such things.
Gardening is not in my family or in my blood. But one fine morning more than 30 years ago, the sun slanted seductively into my Toronto backyard and my gard
The Agapanthus, commonly referred to as the Lily-of-the-Nile or the African lily plant, displays large masses of striking blue or white flowers atop a tall and slender stalk. Learn more about this pla
At the turn-of-the-century, George C. Boldt, millionaire proprietor of the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, set out to build a full size rhineland castle in Alexandria Bay, on picturesque Heart Island. The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise. Beginning in 1900, the Boldt family spent summers in the 1000 Islands at the Boldt Families Wellesley House near Mr. Boldt’s Wellesley Island Farms while 300 workers including stonemasons, carpenters, and artists fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, alster tower (children’s playhouse) and a dove cote. Not a single detail or expense was spared. In January 1904, tragedy struck. Boldt telegraphed the island and commanded the workers to immediately “stop all construction.” Louise had died suddenly. A broken hearted Boldt could not imagine his dream castle without his beloved. Boldt never returned to the island, leaving behind the structure as a monument of his love. For 73 years, the castle and various stone structures were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow and vandals. When the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired the property in 1977, it was decided that through the use of all net revenues from the castle operation it would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. Since 1977, several million dollars have been applied to rehabilitating, restoring and improving the Heart Island structures.
Rotterdam has some of the restaurants in the Netherlands, especially Asian ones. Click through to find out places to eat in Rotterdam!
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The Dingle Peninsula may sound whimsical in name, but there’s a striking beauty and intensity to this coastline region in southwestern Ireland. The Landscapes It’s where rugged landscapes once described by National Geographic Traveler as “the most beautiful place on earth” meet mythical legends and a cultural heritage well-preserved by the peninsula’s remote location. And it does seem untouched. Here, the feeling of being alone with nature runs deep, made even more palpable by the thick blanket of fog that so often drapes over the rolling hills, but can never hide their shimmering green hues. There’s more drama to be
Up till about a week before my wedding I would have sworn up and down that I was going to wear a veil. I had so many reasons, including the Jewish idea that when you wear a veil, the spirits of all your decedents walk down the aisle with you. (Beautiful right?) Also, I really like Read more...
