Find a year of flowers and round up of DIY floral arrangements and seasonal centerpiece inspiration. You’ll also find flower longevity tips, short cuts and techniques to create affordable arrangements using grocery store and garden flowers. Happy January! I hope your holidays were merry and bright and we’re all looking at a happy and healthy…
How about some flower therapy on a cold gray or snowy day? I’m sharing a look back at how I puttered, played and planted around the Potting Shed this past year, but first a ‘thank you’ for all your visits and comments in 2021! I’m still surprised and humbled you find the time to visit…
Happy Monday! Raise your hand if you need some flower therapy on a cold, gray winter day! It’s shaping up to be a dreary week here with rain, rain and more rain in the forecast, so I’m happy to I be joining my blogging friends for some welcome flower therapy and Monday Morning Blooms. Our…
Happy February! It’s always a treat to share some Monday Morning Blooms with YOU and my flower-loving friends, Shirley, Pam, Lidy on the first and third Mondays of the month. With February’s arrival, we’re sharing some Valentine’s Day inspiration. You can find my blogging friends’ links to their floral inspiration at the bottom of this…
Happy Monday! It’s one of my favorite days of the month, when I join my blogging friends, Shirley, Pam and Lidy, for some flower therapy and Monday Morning Blooms! You can find my flower friends’ links and more floral inspiration at the bottom of this post. May is my favorite month in the garden and…
Are you in need of some flower therapy or a dose of spring with all the rain and snow across the US? The past 6 months have been one for the record books here in North Carolina, with 38 inches of rain, just 4 inches shy our annual total. The lake is full to overflowing…
Happy Friday! Are you in need of some flower therapy? If so, you’re in luck, as my Floral Friday friends and I are gathering together to send some floral inspiration your way. You’ll find my blogging friends’ links to their floral creations at the bottom of this post. It’s been a very wet, cold and…
The last of the flowers still pushing blooms were harvested before our frost this weekend. . . Sprinkled in watering cans and filling a zinc bucket . . . the last hurrah for hydrangeas and roses until we meet again next spring. We had our first freeze on Sunday with the mercury plunging into the 20s.…
I hope this Monday finds you safe and dry. With an eye on Hurricane Irma and early tracking predictions having her heading toward the Carolinas, I spent part of Saturday removing watering cans around the Potting Shed and securing anything that would be a potential projectile with high winds predicted. We dodged a bullet when…
Happy Monday, I hope you had a good weekend! We enjoyed a little boating time and I worked on some gardening chores. Mother Nature gave us a thorough soaking late yesterday and last night and more rain is in the forecast this week. I’m happy to have a reprieve from lugging around the hose to keep everything…