My roses started to bloom this week, so that means I am sweeping off the patios and washing the outdoor cushions and pillows in anticipation of the warmer weather ahead. It also means I am ready to spruce up all of my garden containers that have lost their beauty through the harsh winter months. I...
Get inspired by the Best Mediterranean Garden Ideas displayed below and bring a rustic royal touch to your landscape!
So, very late to the Chelsea blogging party, and, whilst I very nearly didn’t post at all, I was spurred on by the number of times I’ve referenced last year’s two posts (here and …
So you want to have a beautiful yard filled with plants that will add character, but you have no sun because your entire yard is covered with trees? Do you have a back covered patio that’s in need of some refreshing and updating? Well, we at Garden Valley Farmers Market, have got you covered with o
Create a beautiful yard with these creative landscape ideas with big impact.
Which do you choose to make your hypertufa? Vermiculite or Perlite? What is the difference to your hypertufa project? So many questions and I am exploring to see if I can offer some explanations from
Celebrate the gardening season with container garden ideas. Buckets, baskets, and spring planting boxes all help create space for a new transition.
Lady’s Mantle, Alchemilla mollis: "Gentle Alchemy" Alchemilla mollis is ubiquitous in English cottage gardens for good reason. Lady's mantle is an unfussy,
Want to know How to Grow Coleus as a Tree? Here are the simple tips and tricks to make this colorful plant stand tall in your garden!
Panting roses in a mixed border is one of the easiest ways of enjoying roses in your garden. Combine shrub roses, other shrubs, perennials and annuals to create a tapestry of different colours and textures - find inspiration in our image gallery and tips and tricks for planning a rose border.
I think I struck a cord with my last post highlighting a small suburban shade garden. Obviously gardeners are hungry for planting suggestions for shade. In this…
Perennials in your cutting garden is a great way to have cut flowers that are low maintenance. A cutting garden does not always have to start from seed.
Côté Maison Design lève le voile sur les photos gagnantes du Concours International de la Photographie de Jardin 2014 (IGPOTY), catégories Plantes, Flore et Faune. Autant dire des captures uniques du microcosme de jardin, la beauté singulière d'une fleur et d'un instant animal...
Having a beautiful garden is everyone’s dream. No matter how big the garden you have, the presence of this garden is able to change the atmosphere at home. The presence of the garden benefits the clean, fresh air and beautiful scenery. Not only that the garden is also able to add aesthetics in decoration with their beauty. But, to shape the aesthetic, you have to design your garden to be a beautiful garden and look pleasing. You can do many things to beautify your garden, one of which is to make a flower garden there. If you talk about a […]
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If your border is short on sunlight, fill it up with this lush, shade-loving combo. Your garden will look fresh all season long.
Feast your eyes on the English countryside, gorgeous gardens, and beautiful blooms.
Designed by Matthew Cunningham, this garden is an ode to Maine: colorful and tough, with perennials that stand up to all kinds of weather and varmints.
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We used a variety of flowers and plants in the same white color to bring this classic planter idea to life!
Gallery featuring 47 gorgeous perennial garden ideas for your home, showcasing the wide range of flowers of this type.
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Standard, extra large planter for outside with metal liner and acorn finial. Shown in 48" with standard White color.
We plant indoor and outdoor pots for patio’s, walkways, entrances, pool decks and porches. We plant annuals, perennials, shrubs, palms and trees in containers.
My favorite part of spring is gardening. There is seriously nothing more satisfying than planting and watching those plants grow and product. Whether flowers or veggies or herbs, I absolutely adore growing things and cannot
Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) capture the beauty of wildflowers. Here's how to care for these loosely planted flowers, water, and fertilizer techniques.
Terracotta pots have a long history and remain popular today for garden and home decoration and crafts of all kinds.
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Here are some ideas to improve the kerb appeal of your home in order to increase your enjoyment of your new house, or to maximise the value when it comes to selling your property…
We recently spruced up our front porch. The exterior of our house has been a work in progress for the past year or so and the porch really needed a little boost. Last fall, we replaced our old shutters with custom built (by me) cedar shutters. I built them from cedar fence boards, sanded and stained them with MinWax Provincial stain and then two coats of MinWax Helmsman Spar Urethane. They really changed the overall look of the house. I wish I had taken a "before" photograph of the porch, but the one above is the best I could come up with. You can see the traditional white columns just weren't cutting it with the new stained shutters, so our next project was to replace them with stained posts and porch brackets. We priced cedar posts and they were pretty expensive. My dad suggested we use treated pine posts. Good move. The four 6"x6" treated posts were around $20 each. We ended up purchasing two additional 6"x6" posts that my Dad used to make the porch brackets. After we installed them, we let them "dry out" for a month or so before we stained and sealed them the same way we did the shutters. I built this table from 2"x3" boards for the base and 2"x6" boards for the top. It was my first furniture build and was fairly simple. I love the way it filled the space to the right of the front door. I filled these great planters I found at T.J. Maxx with variegated ivy and geraniums. I've always wanted a haint blue porch ceiling, so we repainted the bead board with Benjamin Moore's Palladian Blue (HC-144). We also added patio string lights at are from Wal-Mart's Better Homes & Gardens line. These planters aren't technically on the porch, but the side of the house, but I couldn't exclude them. I found these really big containers at Big Lots and filled them with sun ferns, variegated ivy, geraniums and sweet potato vine. And finally, we also gave our old mailbox a redo too! I stripped the paint from the post and stained it to match the shutters and porch posts. I gave the mailbox a fresh coat of black paint and added brushed nickel house numbers to the post. Then a sun fern and variegated ivy in a pot finished it up.
