I wish my photographs depicted it better, but this Secret Garden really did have that feeling of being tucked away behind the screen of pines and filled with an array of flowers with the perfect rope swing hanging from the “old tree”. The Secret Garden was one of my favorite books as a child, and […]
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Home And Garden …coming right up!
The thrilling expectancy of Spring is in the air and what better way to feed the anticipation than to visit the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show which opens this Saturday, February 28th? I am so excited to go this year. You have time to hop on over to a Home Depot store and get […]
A Common Point of View
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the […]
Container Gardening All Year
Can your containers go from summer into fall without too much trouble? You might want to swap out annuals that look too tired for some flowering kale or a small pot of chrysanthemums. Tuck in some gourds or a mini pumpkin like heirloom gardener did. Here is an idea for an autumn season container with […]
Small Yard of Great Ideas
I like that! And I love the gothic looking shed. Art of Gardening has a post up as one of Blotanical’s picks, it looks like a very fine blog. clipped from artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com Above is my favorite shed/bench combo ever. It belongs to past Garden Walk Chair, Arlan. He designed and built it himself (well, I’m […]
Saving Viewsheds
We often think little of the “backdrop” of our lives, but sometimes that is spectacular scenery we don’t want to lose sight of. clipped from awaytogarden.com Today a number of historic sites like Church’s astonishing home near here called Olana are working to protect their viewsheds, in part thanks to work by groups like Scenic […]
