Problem number 1: Our chickens are dumb… really dumb. I swear they’d be extinct if they didn’t taste so good (for the record, we don’t …
Trenching new water lines
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What’s blooming: August
The dog days of summer are peaking, as the hope of cooler weather nears. The rains are not as consistent as they used to be, …
Great Plant Combinations: Gingers, Coleus, Impatiens, & Sweet Potato Vine
Think you can’t have color in the shade? Think again! This combination screams red, white, and green in both leaf color and flowers. The tricolor …
Great Plant Combinations: Crotons, Foxtail Fern and Perennial Peanut
If you love bright and sunny yellow, this is the plant combination for you! Colorful yellow, green, and orange crotons seem to float in a …
Great plant combinations: Pentas & variegated Schefflera
I’ve decided to do a series on plant combinations that spark joy! It’s one thing to know your plants and how to keep them alive. …
Installing a New Birdhouse
Yesterday, my new Goolsby 28 in x 14 in x 14 in Birdhouse by Tucker Murphy Pet™ from Wayfair was delivered. I know the dimensions …
How I almost killed my entire crepe myrtle delivery
Crepe myrtles have been making me drool lately. Red ones, lavender ones, pink ones, and even white ones. Ones with green leaves, red leaves, and …
Transform an area into a tropical oasis
There’s an area next to the RV where I started to create a shade garden. I put in my cheap plastic greenhouse so that I …
10 Easy Plants to Propagate in Zone 9B
Have a bunch of bare spots in the garden that need to be filled in without breaking the bank? Clone new plants from the ones …
HELP! My stepfather committed CREPE MURDER!
As a former master gardener, it was drilled into my head NOT to commit crepe murder by hacking the branches off the tree. We were …