Flower Garden Design    This is one of those posts where a picture is worth a thousand words…. how can one explain beautiful?     Over the years I have planted hundreds of containers, done massive bulb displays and grown thousands of vegetables. Above all, I love to plan out the colors I wish to go with from year to year.       But I love the riot of color of a well planned garden bed, hanging basket or container. I’ve always admired Monet’s style of gardening and I try to create drama at ...

  Garden Junk-Man Style   Junk gar·den /jəNGk/  noun.  trash – rubbish – refuse – lumber  /ˈgärdn/ noun. A piece of ground, often near a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables.   ( as per Google definition search result )   Apparently dictionaries have not caught up to this term as I was unable to find it without searching for the words separately. But it’s a thing…. let me tella’ you!   Got Junk?     Everybody is doing it…. but it isn’t so ...

  Love Flowers? Think Pink!   I have a confession…it’s been 2 weeks since my last blog submission. SO much has happened, I don’t even know where to start! Let’s just say that changes in seasons often bring about changes in peoples lives.     Just a few short weeks ago I was planning my Christmas themes over at my ‘old’ job and in a blink of an eye…. an opportunity came along that completely put me on a course correction.     I’ll be honest and say that it was very har ...

  Recycled Rooster Junk Art   A while back I salvaged a couple of cupboard doors, slapped on some paint and set them aside with the intention of turning them into junk art projects.     At Christmas time I used one as a Rustic wall art piece to hold fresh cut evergreens with some red wool.     For the second one I decided to make it into a mixed media piece as a wall art decor for the bathroom. I used scrapbook paper, a Rooster wall decal, a daisy chipboard and some old chicken wire.     I just used a hom ...