May 31st, 2008

New Garden With Dry Creek Bed

Cathy in All Posts, DIY Garden / Backyard Projects, Garden / Landscape Design

I love rocks and stones in the garden and landscape, so when Gardening Gone Wild announced that the subject of May’s Garden Design Workshop was Stone in the Garden, I thought “what a happy coincidence” that my big spring project involves this very thing.
There were three reasons for adding a new garden with a dry [...]

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May 28th, 2008

Keeping Garden

Mary in All Posts, Garden / Landscape Design, Green Garden Tips, This & That

Everybody needs a keeping garden. You know, a garden where you can ‘keep’ plants that you don’t want to get rid of, but you haven’t yet found their perfect spot or planting location.
My first keeping garden started by accident along the side of my middle vegetable garden. One spring, a volunteer [...]

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May 28th, 2008

Gardener’s To Do List - (Late) May

Mary in All Posts, Monthly To Do's

Why is this Gardener’s To Do List so late?
Reason Number One
That beautiful snippit of summer-like weather we received earlier this spring was just a tease - it has been cold and rainy! Not very spring-like at all. Therefore, as much as spring has been delayed, so too has this Monthly To Do List.

Reason [...]

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May 17th, 2008

Livin’ and Lovin’ in the Garden

Cathy in All Posts, This & That

Obviously I haven’t been doing much posting lately. That’s because I’ve practically been living in the garden. If not my own garden, then someone else’s.
I’ve been quite busy doing spring garden cleaning for friends, relatives and clients. Here at home, work has begun on a new project in my side yard. [...]

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May 17th, 2008

Table Top Succulent Garden

Cathy in All Posts, Container Gardening

Over a month ago, on an early spring excursion to a garden center in Stratford, Mom bought this very cool metal planter. We thought the size would be perfect for a mini succulent garden that could be placed in the center of our patio table.

With the container purchased, all we needed were some succulents [...]

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May 3rd, 2008

Geocaching: Hi-Tech Treasure Hunting

Mary in All Posts, This & That

There is a hi-tech type of treasure hunting happening, maybe under your very nose. If you don’t already know about it, it’s called Geocaching!

The hobby (or obsession) of geocaching began in 2000 when military satellite signals were unscrambled, allowing GPSr (Global Positioning Satellite receivers) to accurately pinpoint locations around the world. Someone in Oregon decided [...]

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