12 Beautiful & Practical Ways to Use Rose Petals from Your Garden
Discover 12 lovely ways to use rose petals—make rosewater, tea, bath soaks, and garden-inspired crafts for home and beauty.
Cottage Garden
Learn how to grow a cottage garden of your own. Within these posts, you will discover what types of flowers to plant and what kinds of structures to add to create a beautiful cottage garden. Discover how to design one and how to allow the flowers to migrate and spread to create a beautiful mess.
Also, within these posts, you will discover how to build and create alive and seasonal window boxes full of flowers and adornments that perfectly fill out any window box.
Grow the most beautiful flowering trees, bushes, and flowers to create structure and dimension. Learn how to grow flowering dogwoods, redbuds, Washington Hawthorns, PeeGee hydrangeas, and more.
How to Grow and Care for Tiger Lilies
Unlock the secrets of cultivating vibrant tiger lilies with my comprehensive guide for blooms all summer long!
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Dream Flower Garden!
Create a vibrant thriving flower garden oasis with this guide that will inspire you to transform your yard into a floral paradise!
The Best Perennial Flowers for a Low-Maintenance Garden!
Explore the best perennial flowers for low-maintenance gardens that thrives with minimal effort with these tips!
How to Grow and Care for Tulips
Learn how to grow and care for tulips, which are the first blooms to pop through the frosty ground in early spring and multiply each year! The best thing about tulips is that they can continue to grow with their regenerative power in a vase of water after being cut! Plus, they always arrive just in time for Easter! CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for a PeeGee Hydrangea Tree
Growing a PeeGee hydrangea tree in your yard or cottage garden will bring a large display of beautiful blooms that last all summer long. I live in Northern Utah and regular hydrangeas do not do well with the long harsh winters in my area. However, PeeGee hydrangea trees are frost-tolerant and cold hardy trees/shrubs that they are perfect for my climate. If you have issues growing hydrangeas, try growing PeeGee hydrangea trees and growing gorgeous hydrangeas in your garden. I love them so much, I planted two of them! CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Design a Cottage Garden: Growing a Beautiful Mess
Cottage gardens are informal, fun, whimsical, colorful, beautiful, and practical. They are filled with native flowers, vegetables, herbs, bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and climbers. They provide dimension and structure to garden spaces and a safe haven for local pollinators. The best part is that cottage gardens are very much alive and they change year after year on their own if you allow them to do their own thing. With a few bulbs, seeds, and patience, you can design a cottage garden that will fill out your garden spaces naturally and beautifully. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Bearded Irises
Bearded irises are gorgeous flowers that provide dimension to any floral or cottage garden. They are easy and fun to grow. They multiply each season, so you plant them once and watch them come back with more each year. They come in a variety of beautiful colors too! CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks bring delight to the garden with their tall gorgeous spring blooms. Did you know that the whole hollyhock plant is completely edible offering medicinal benefits, including roots, blossoms, and leaves? Hollyhocks can be a great substitute for the related herb plant called marshmallow. These plants can be beneficial to our health helping with inflammation of the respiratory tract, cough, stomach ulcers, bowel issues, urinary tract inflammation, and bladder stones. CLICK TO READ MORE.