Archive for the 'Home Planning' Category

16 Oct

I have not dug up my bulbs at the end of the summer for years because all of them are coming up fine each year, just where I’d like them to.  But one of these years I’m going to want to redo my bulb garden.  I understand after many years in the garden, they gradually [...]

04 Jun

Without a home, there may be no garden, unless you have a rental in an area that offers a community garden. The housing market continues to be a challenge for some…sellers because they cannot get the money they used to for their homes, and buyers because their jobs may be insecure and there are stricter [...]

23 Apr

Living in a home has the advantage of providing you with land that you can garden, the property the home is on is yours to do with as you please…but it doesn’t mean that you have to give up gardening if you don’t own a home.  When you are looking, take into consideration whether you [...]

19 Apr

Isn’t this a charming country picture of flowers in a sink? The credit goes to countryliving.com for this beautiful picture, what a creative idea for an old sink if you have purchased an old country home and are replacing the sink. I have some plants in an old porcelain wash tub as a planter on [...]

27 Feb

Here is a view outside our bedroom window of the snow-covered frozen lake, and this was BEFORE the huge snowstorm we had over the past 2 days here in Northern New Jersey.  I happen to enjoy the snow most of the time, and as Spring gets closer, the ground under the snow is protected from [...]