Not Hard To Find and Super Easy To Grow : Christmas Cactus

ChristmasCactus2 Christmas Cactus is the Star of My Sunroom This Week Every year I grab a Christmas cactus from the garden center in our local grocery store as an impulse purchase.  Who can resists the colorful packaging featuring a seasonal bow and of course the blooms on the plant are to die for!  And for some [...]

You Don’t Want to Know

From Drive Home in #Ohio I’m not sure how long that fully loaded truck sat in the tomato field but I can tell you it was longer then the time it took me to harvest my own home grown in my 40′x50′ veggie garden and process them for winter meals. This photo came to mind when I recently read ‘Fresh [...]

Holiday Planning With Southern Living

bggarden_stockings12 In July I was checking my list of last minute summer planting to be sure I had enough flowers to dry for my Christmas garland for that coming December.  December is my favorite time of the year but dreaming of Christmas decor in my summer garden has been a tradition for the past 10 years [...]

Cheerful Original Classic Wreath Giveaway

Click to Enlarge The cooler temperatures in my Ohio garden has brought me indoors to stay warm and start decorating for the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.  I’m so excited to be able to offer this giveaway from my friends at P.Allen Smiths because I have had my eye on his collection of Holiday decor since I first saw [...]

Instagram Weekend Project : #WHPbluronpurpose

instagram_header This Weekend I’m joining in on instagram: Hashtag Project: #WHPbluronpurpose.  What a great way to practice your photography skills and join in the conversation with millions of other people who use instagram. I’m looking forward to sharing some blurpurpose theme images from my garden. Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen [...]

Plant Spring NOW!

Autumn Planting One of the best things about being a northerner is to experience the bulbs that arrive in spring.  To see a magnificent crocus poke up out of the white snow in February is an experience filled with life and energy during the sometimes drab months of winter. Now is the time to get your spring [...]

Pin & Win Recipes #HuntsRecipes

Click on this Image to Follow or Link my Pinterest Board. Who isn’t on Pinterest: the largest virtual pinboard that allows it’s subscribers to organize and share all the beautiful things found on the web? If I told you that sharing on a Pinterest board could make you the winner of $5,000 in prizes for your next dinner party would you be interested? Continue reading my [...]

Can You Hear The Distant Drum

Distant Drum Rose Under Cover This is the last of the blooms on my Distant Drum rose shrub for 2012 but I’m looking forward to sharing more about roses in the post to come now that I’ve been introduced to the varieties that can be enjoyed in most any home garden. I will miss you Distant Drum but you can [...]