This is a public service announcement: If you’re looking for an easy to grow, low maintenance shrub in your garden that will provide you with both beautiful cut and dried flowers, plant a Limelight Hydrangea! I have five Limelight hydrangeas planted around the Potting Shed. ‘Limelight’ is a paniculata hydrangea with panicle-shaped flower heads that grow…
Happy Friday! It’s the first Friday of the month which means I’m joining my blogging friends for another edition of Floral Friday! You can find their links for their beautiful floral inspiration and flower therapy at the bottom of this post. For this week’s Floral Friday edition, our common theme was a pitcher. I found…
Happy Wednesday! Summer arrives officially tomorrow but we’ve had summer like temperatures for weeks now. . . And it’s National Pollinator Week and I’ve been as busy as a bee trying to keep everything watered in the summer heat! We went from a very wet spring and a full pond after Subtropical Storm Alberto over…
Happy National Pollinator Week! In celebration, I gathered some bee favorites for a little tabletop vignette the Potting Shed! From Pollinator.org: National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them. Pollinator populations are changing. Many pollinator populations are in decline attributed to a loss…
It’s National Flag Week, with Flag Day on June 14th, commemorating the adoption of the U.S. flag and paying tribute to the banner that waves above us all. Americans are encouraged to observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying the flag, so I’m waving the flag from the archives! Old Glory’s official history dates…
I’m in the Potting Shed, enjoying the peonies ‘last hurrah’ along with roses that are blooming! And as it’s the first Friday of the month, I’m joining my blogging friends for Floral Friday. You’ll find their links for more floral inspiration and flower therapy at the bottom of this post! I cut the last peonies…
I’m in the Potting Shed, celebrating the Red, White and Bloom with the Memorial Day weekend ahead! Flowers in a flag formation, were blooming on melamine plates on sale at Pier 1. . . Ideal for a little patriotic tabletop fun in the Potting Shed! Red, White & Blue Wildflower seed packets from American Meadows, are…
Happy Monday, I hope you had a good weekend and Happy Mother’s Day! I’ve been enjoying the May flowers courtesy of all our April showers. Come along for a little walk with me to see what’s in bloom around the Potting Shed! We’ve been in upper 80s and 90s the past week. It seems like…
Happy Friday and Mother’s Day Weekend! I’ve taken some time to stop and smell the roses and peonies that are in bloom this week! The peonies smell heavenly. . . Peony blooms are so fleeting, especially when you factor in heavy rain showers and thunderstorms that pummel the petals. Time to gather ye peonies while…
Memorial Day is three weeks away. . .a day to wave the flag, salute the stars and stripes and celebrate the Red, White and Blue! In celebration, I’m sharing some Stars & Stripe Ball Jar love with a little giveaway! The Stars and Stripes Keepsake Ball Jars are new for 2018. In addition to the…
