Learn about weeding tips that will save you time and keep your garden and landscape looking great.
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Summer Butterfly
Beautiful butterfly on a beautiful flower on a beautiful day.
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DIY | Colorful Stair Runner
When we moved into our charming, century-old, Providence home, there were several changes that I wanted to make. I made my list in order of urgency, and right after “change the awful paint colors,” came “get rid of the scary brown stair protectors.” When I pulled up the stair protectors, I found, to my horror, […]
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Butterfly
I liked the way the light is on the surface of part of the wing, and through the wing on the other part.
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DIY Geometrical Blocks
Geometrical blocks are wood shapes that have been painted or stained in various colors and patterns. The blocks can be used for decoration– you can switch the pieces around at any time to create new shapes and patterns. You can also use the blocks for creative “play”—adults and kids alike enjoy interacting and building with […]
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Container Gardens | Flower Power
Patrick Shellman from Fantastic Umbrella Factory Garden shares his best tips for creating dazzling container gardens that are equal parts true grit and pizzazz. Put your sunglasses on. Gardeners spend summers soaking in sun, buoyed by breezes. It’s one of the great pleasures of our work, but those conditions can be stressful for plants, especially when […]
Learning how to divide hostas is good for your landscape in terms of inexpensively expanding your garden areas using existing plants.
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Green tomatoes
Green tomatoes in my dad’s garden
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Young beans
Almost ready to pick yellow wax beans in my dad’s garden.
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Climbing cukes
Cucumbers climbing the fence in my dad’s garden.
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Small cuke in the garden
The first cucumber of the year in my dad’s garden.