A door wreath is a perfect outdoor decoration. Decorative wreaths can be purchased ready-made or with very little effort, you can make a grape vine wreath of your own. After the leaves have blown off the grape vines it is the perfect time to gather long pieces to make a grape vine wreath. [...]

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I thought I’d sneak in a little post about planting fall bulbs since I have so many wonderful new fall bulbs to get in the ground. We’ll just call this post part two and a half of my three part series on fall bulbs for spring blooms. In part one, Choosing Fall Bulbs [...]

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Here’s a quick tip that will allow you to always have a fresh bouquet for your table. When you are discarding the annuals from your summer planters snip off the ends of your English or German ivy trailers. Wash them off with insecticidal soap so you won’t be bringing any little critters into [...]

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In the fall garden, when the summer annuals are being pulled out and the perennials are being cut back, it’s the perfect time to take note of how well each plant in your garden grew this year.
Some questions to ask yourself about each plant:

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It’s never too early to begin your Christmas shopping. Here are some fantastic ‘green’ gift ideas from Roots- one of my favorite environmentally-concious places to shop, :

Any woman would love a pair of these comfortable Bamboo Fold Over Pants- perfect for lounging at home or going out and about!
Topped with a Stretch Bamboo [...]

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For the past two summers I have been doing gardening and landscaping work for a family at their weekend farm. It’s an absolutely gorgeous property, but the gardens were in very rough shape. With three young and very active children, the gardens were at the bottom of their list of priorities. As [...]

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October 2007 has proven to be a month of contradictions in the yard and garden. The Canadian Thanksgiving weekend was balmy and unseasonably warm. Many of us northerners took full advantage by enjoying it in shorts and T-shirts instead of jeans and sweaters. Weeks later we’ve had another last shot of summer. [...]

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This is part two of a three part series on Fall Bulbs.
In part one of this series, Choosing Fall Bulbs for Spring Blooms, I gave myself a challenge - create a spring garden on a budget of $100. I started with a wish list of all the items I would like. After doing a [...]

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It’s fall bulb buying time. (Say that five times fast!) When I moved into my current home just over a year ago, I had no idea what spring flowering bulbs might be hiding in the earth. Now, having witnessed one full growth cycle, I know what is here and I just have [...]

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Since skunk traffic in the yard and garden seems to be at an all time high in the fall (so my nose tells me), I thought I’d do a short recap of this skunk smell removal recipe for dogs.

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