Hi everyone! We have the two units pictured below and want to paint the outsides, leaving the inner normal white. I would normally tape everything off and just spray paint, but where we are moving to – we won’t have the space to do it (TINY guest room where they will live). What brand of [...]

Now that I’ve got all my borders done, I’d like to find a flowering groundcover to fill in the spaces and squeeze out the weeds to some degree. I’m not a big fan of the mulch or rocks showing in between plants and would like the space full. Vinca looks like a good pick, but [...]

A couple of months ago I ordered this tree rose from Jackson & Perkins. I’m very happy with it; that is not what I’m upset about. This afternoon my older son brought me the mail. Included was a catalog from J&P. Turns out they’re having their Rose Tag Sale where selected roses are up to [...]

Hi everyone *waves* Ive been refraining from posting my bedroom as its a constant work in progress, & I have so many ideas of how I want it to look, but have a very, very, very tight budget. So, I work with what I have & yea..here ya go! I apologise if my post has [...]

I’m going to start off with a question for the tree folks first… Yesterday I found a little yellow tag on our door, from the Kansas City Power and Light crew… Apparently they;ve just made a policy about trees being trimmed 20 feet from power lines… Our back yard is about to take a BIG [...]

My web site is down, so I haven’t been posting many pictures as of late. Facebook is good for posting individual images, but it’s not very good for posting a narrative like I usually do. So here’s my 2010 garden, as well as some yard improvement I’ve been working on. I got a new Hibiscus, [...]

I need some help.  The last time I posted, it was about a sad little Peace Rose that followed me home from Home Depot.  Well, that rose is in the ground and flourishing, but now…my miniature roses are ailing.  I tried to put it all under a cut, but I fail at the new cut [...]

I’ve been lurking looking at this community for a while, and today went back through the ‘grass’ tags hopefully. Alas, the only post I found dealing with clover and grass was someone trying to get rid of their clover. I’d like to do the opposite, I have some clover, and would like more. (In theory, [...]

Okay. So about a month ago, I containerized Mexican feather grass on my balcony, which gets full sun in the mornings. For a couple of weeks it was gorgeous, and now it’s all tawny and dried up. I’ve never worked with ornamental grasses before, so I really don’t know what’s going on, and was hoping someone would [...]

When Mom and I shop by catalog or Internet for garden plants, we usually combine our orders to save on shipping. And it never fails. We’ll find something that we both like and we’ll both wind up getting it. Just recently we placed an order with Spring Hill Nursery for this bit of lovely along [...]