3. Backpacks, totes, and purses If your kids’ backpacks are falling apart or your own everyday bag has seen better days, now’s the time to swap them out. Clear out… Read More »What to Declutter This Month: September Checklist
Hi Your Artistic Ideaers! As promised, we’re enjoying more photos from Wendy Quereau’s garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania, today (be sure to check out Part 1 if you missed it yesterday).… Read More »Wendy’s Mature Garden in Pennsylvania, Part 2
Happy Monday Your Artistic Ideaers! Today we’re returning to Wayne, Pennsylvania for an update on Wendy Quereau’s stunning garden. It has been a little while since we’ve gotten an update… Read More »Wendy’s Mature Garden in Pennsylvania, Part 1
Happy Friday, Your Artistic Ideaers! Amazingly, we started this week in Sammamish, Washington, with Kirk and Martha Painter’s incredible garden transformation (if you missed it, check that post out here:… Read More »Jeanne’s Midsummer Garden in Washington
While most of the classic spring-flowering bulbs you think of perform best in full sun, that doesn’t mean you have to forgo early blooms if you have a shaded garden.… Read More »Spring-Flowering Bulbs for Shade – Fine Gardening
Tools for home gardeners need to have two things: measurement to draw gardens to scale and visualization elements to inspire plant combinations. Several tools do either of those two things,… Read More »Landscape Design Software for the Home Gardener
The genus Agastache has become a garden staple in the Rocky Mountain Region since the introduction of sunset hyssop (Agastache rupestris, Zones 5–8) into the horticulture trade in 1996 by… Read More »Tips and Tricks for Growing Agastache in the Mountain West
With dramatic size, stunning silver-white plumes, and dense tussocks of blue-green foliage, it’s no surprise pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) gained rock star status in the garden. After years of cultivation,… Read More »Showy Ornamental Grass Alternatives to Pampas Grass
Strictly speaking, “tea” refers to beverages made from the leaves of the aptly named tea plant (Camellia sinensis, Zones 6–9). What we call “herbal teas” are often not teas at… Read More »Growing a Tea Garden – Fine Gardening
Hi Your Artistic Ideaers! Today we’re getting an introduction to Jody Petersen’s new garden in Chestertown, Maryland. Jody didn’t have much to work with when she moved to the property… Read More »Jody’s Two-Year-Old Garden in Maryland