I was looking through my blog archives and thought I’d post one of my favorite old posts once in a while. Today’s vintage ITGO post was published during my very first winter of gardenblogging, and it’s still one of my favorites. 5 Reuses for Milk Jugs I’m a chronic re-user. If I can find a [...]
Read more →One thing I’ve always loved about garden blogging is the sense of community we have in our little (though not as little as it used to be) niche. I’ve had so much fun participating in things like the Garden Bloggers Book Club and Garden Bloggers Bloom Day sponsored by Carol over at May Dreams Gardens, [...]
Read more →Lavender is my favorite scent in the entire world. I love the plants, I love the flowers, and I love the fact that it freshens my laundry and keeps my dresser drawers smelling heavenly. I like it so much I even started making my own solid perfume, with lavender as a base scent (we’ll get [...]
Read more →I love candles. I love buying them, I love using them, I love smelling them. The sweet clean smell of beeswax, or a perfectly scented lavender or patchouli candle just make me happy. So it only makes sense that I love making candles, as well. The only problem with candlemaking is that it can be [...]
Read more →I’ve mentioned before how shady my yard is. On our quarter-acre lot, we have three maples, a birch, a locust, an apple, and a Bradford pear tree. I’ve made a point of tucking edible gardens into any sunny spots we have, so the remaining shady areas are the more ornamental areas. I am not, in [...]
Read more →The Gardener’s Color Palette: Paint Your Garden with 100 Extraordinary Flower Choices By Tom Fischer Photography by Clive Nichols Timber Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1-60469-084-2 I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for pretty pictures. I suppose that’s why, instead of tossing The Gardener’s Color Palette, by Tom Fischer, on top of the pile of books on [...]
Read more →It took a while, but I finally got a Facebook fan page up and running for In the Garden Online. If you’re on Facebook already, may I humbly suggest becoming a fan? (I hate that phrase, by the way. It sounds stupid to say that I have fans…) Anyway, I’ve been asked a few times [...]
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