Last Saturday we went to one of our local farmer’s markets and I was delighted to find a gentleman selling cut flowers…I picked up this bunch of snapdragons for $3 & 2 stems of dianthus for $1 apiece. I was delighted! And after almost a week, the snaps look almost identical to when we bought [...]
It’s no secret…I {big pink puffy heart} hydrangeas…I counted…I have 10 {and it should be 11 if Mr. Employee-of-the-Month hadn’t run over one last year with a Bobcat…grrr} but I digress. I drive my sweet husband crazy…every time we go to Lowe’s or Home Depot, I must walk through the Garden Center and I always drool [...]
Last Saturday I got the opportunity to go hang out with The Nester {and a group of fabulous ladies} in her beautiful home for the afternoon for a Blessings Unlimited party…hello!! I love a road trip…for me it was a no-brainer…I {heart} The Nester…and her mad decorating skillz…I stalk her blog pretty much daily.
While [...]
Photo by GHOSH
We’ve lived in 3 houses since we’ve been married and we’ve been fortunate enough for two of them to have forsythia bushes. I’ve long heard that forsythia was easy to force indoors…one of the earliest plants you can have bloom indoors…even in the winter. And every year I remember that right about [...]
Couldn’t resist sharing these pics of Cameron in the bumbo the other day…I put a vase full of hydrangea blooms on the table & she immediately grabbed one – it was so cute!
As I shared the other day – we are moving the blog – head over to www.back40life.com to check us out…we don’t have all [...]
Blooms, blooms and more blooms – the more the better, is my motto! Hydrangeas have become one of my absolute favorites…when we moved to our new place back in Aug 2005, I started to dream of big, beautiful hydrangeas. That year, I planted a few, albeit not in the best location for them…a little too much [...]