DIY GARDENING – WATTLE FENCE

DIY GARDENING – WATTLE FENCE

Last spring I started a gardening fence to keep my dogs (plus those who wander through the yard) out of the garden beds. I wanted something unique, and came up with a plan to use the trimmings from my muscadine vines and the pruned limbs of the crepe myrtle trees. The advantage first of all is that both were easily available.

The Memory Garden Story

The Memory Garden Story

With a hurting heart, I began in early March of 2008, to dig the plants from my Mother’s yard and move them to mine, creating what became a Memory Garden. Each time I made a trip to her house, digging in her dirt, my heart would break and the tears would fall…

Chairs for the Garden

Chairs for the Garden

The house is smelling a lot like Christmas, the decorations are up and Christmas music is playing. Looking so forward to the next few days …

Fall Figs

Fall Figs

Growing figs in the Fall!  I didn’t know my fig trees I planted in the Spring would produce figs in the Fall! That is one of my favorite things about gardening -you get surprises all the time. Last year we had an abundance of tomatoes, peppers, and green beans....
Garden Art: Repurposed Rotors

Garden Art: Repurposed Rotors

Repurposing things that appear to have no value and recycling them into works of art is one of my passions. The old rotors are a good example. Stashed in a corner next to the garage, leftover from some work my husband had done on his car, they were waiting for me to...