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If you’re looking for a basic guide to growing wisteria, you’ve come to the right spot. Yesterday I planted my Japanese purple Wisteria in front of our NEWLY CONSTRUCTED FENCE {that’s right, privacy is back, baby!}. I have had Wisteria in my yard for years because it’s pretty quick growing. It also looks pretty freakin’ Read More >>
After I wrote the title for this post, I wondered, do people even know what 411 stands for anymore? Should I have called it the Google on Succession Planting? Man, technology makes me feel old sometimes. Anyway, moving on. Succession planting–do you do it? If you don’t, you totally should. It gives you a continuous Read More >>
Someone. Please. Please take my car keys away so I can’t get in my car and drive to our local nursery or The Home Depot and buy more plants. I’m begging you. Now that the fence is up… I can’t stop. I need an intervention. Like pronto Tonto. Yesterday I planted a boxwood hedge in Read More >>
Growing a garden organically requires a little more thought and planning than your standard garden, I think. You have to really nurse your soil with compost and crop rotation. Companion planting is another way to get the most out of each plant’s properties, without having to chemically blast them when something goes wrong. It’s not Read More >>
Every year for Mother’s Day, I like to go pick out a boatload of flowers for the yard. It’s kind of my thing. I call it my Mother’s Day present to me, and the kids and HH are pretty content that they don’t have to pick anything else out. Everyone wins. Every year, I admit, Read More >>
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