Terrarium Basics

Terrarium Basics

As promised, a quick post about how to cre­ate a ter­rar­ium.  The ‘quick’ part isn’t because I am not tak­ing time to write out the details but rather because it’s so sim­ple that a great deal of details are not required.  You will need a fol­low a few basic steps to cre­ate a ter­rar­ium: Con­tainer.  This   Continue…

Oh, SNAP!

Oh, SNAP!

After a totally wild week­end, I am back from the SNAP! Cre­ativ­ity Con­fer­ence. What an exhaust­ing but won­der­ful cou­ple of days! I have promised to get a post up about ter­rar­ium basics and will try and make that hap­pen tomor­row. Between the SNAP! Con­fer­ence, a local polit­i­cal con­ven­tion over the week­end (at which my friend,   Continue…

Outside Inside: Living Arrangements NOT Houseplants

Outside Inside: Living Arrangements NOT Houseplants

 As I’ve men­tioned a num­ber of times before, I am NOT a house­plant per­son. How­ever, I do  enjoy hav­ing liv­ing plants in my inte­rior envi­ron­ment. What’s the dif­fer­ence? A ‘house­plant’ is   intended to live year in and year out inside your home, grow­ing larger and leg­gier every sea­son until you finally divide it to mul­ti­ple   Continue…

“Joy in The Garden”

Joy in The Garden”

I am excited to say that I’ll be join­ing my gar­den­ing friend, Joy Bossi, of “Joy in the Gar­den” on her radio show for a few min­utes dur­ing the next cou­ple of Sat­ur­days. Joy has been a HUGE pro­po­nent of Con­ser­va­tion Gar­den Park and has specif­i­cally helped me at a time when I really needed   Continue…

A “Near Death Experience”- Seedling Style

A “Near Death Experience”- Seedling Style

Actu­ally, for some of my unique heir­loom toma­toes and ALL of my baby bell pep­per seedlings, it WAS a death expe­ri­ence. Sorry lit­tle guys! I approached this ‘seed sea­son’ with far more gusto than usual. After 20 years of grow­ing seeds in my win­dow sills or under lights in the base­ment I now have access to   Continue…

Giant Pumpkin Quest 2012: Start Your Engines!

Giant Pumpkin Quest 2012: Start Your Engines!

I come by my love of gar­den­ing hon­estly.  My Great-Grandfather was a Swiss immi­grant who owned a florist shop as did sev­eral of his chil­dren.  All are gar­den­ers includ­ing my Grandma who had an incred­i­ble veg­etable gar­den.  My Grandpa and sev­eral other rel­a­tives are farm­ers.  My Dad’s folks were into the whole ‘gar­den­ing’ thing too   Continue…

Outside-Inside Style: Succulent Container Trough

Outside-Inside Style: Succulent Container Trough

Suc­cu­lents are a great way to add color and tex­ture indoors– espe­cially for the ‘house­plant impaired’! How­ever, best results are achieved when you fol­low some basic cul­ti­va­tion requirements!

Succulent Pallet Table

Succulent Pallet Table

Whew! The last week was a whirl­wind!  I actu­ally LOVE the Home & Gar­den Show.  I’m an extro­vert so talk­ing to hun­dreds of peo­ple about plants etc. is a lot of fun for me!  This is the first year in the last five that I am not design­ing pri­vately and thus was not trolling for   Continue…

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