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Building Beautiful Garden Borders

Spring Flower Border

I really admire beautiful mixed flower and foliage borders like the photo here (confession - none of mine look like this), but have difficulty creating borders like this around our home.   As the seasons progress; there’s either too little foliage, too few flowers, the colors don’t mix, or the textures don’t work together.  To combat the problem, last year I started examining the borders I was trying to improve at the beginning of each month; isolating the areas seeming to need the most help at that time, and determining what the missing or wrong element was (flower, foliage, color, or texture).

Once I’ve figured out the biggest problem, I review all the perennials in our other [...]

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August 10th, 2011 | Leave a comment

Memorial Day Weekend

Feeding Time

Memorial Day weekend corresponds with our wedding anniversary; so we’re usually off somewhere celebrating.  In the past, we’ve traveled exotic places, seen spectacular scenery, and attended great events.  But this year we decided to stay put; and since we rarely enjoy a Memorial Day weekend at home, some photographs seemed appropriate.

The cats, Sugar and Spice, are the ones I miss first when we travel, but I also worry about them least – they’re pretty self-sufficient.  They’re sisters from the same litter, although you’d never know it by looking at them. 

 

 

One reason for staying put this year was to get some ongoing projects done.  One of these was installing an automatic chicken-coop opener.  With it installed, the chicken coop hatch automatically opens when the sun [...]

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June 1st, 2011 | Leave a comment
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