Your May Lawn & Garden To Do List
Spring cleanup isn’t just for the inside of your house. It’s even more critical to prepare the outside of your home (specifically your lawn and garden) for the growing season.…
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7 Super Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Mother’s Day is less than two weeks away! (Make a note on your calendar that it falls on May 13th this year.) So, it’s time to get serious about “The…
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Creative Uses For Your Garden Shed, Part II
A couple of weeks ago we talked about the newest home ownership craze — using your garden/storage shed for any number of cool, creative private spaces. Both inside and outside your shed,…
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Thinking About A Gazebo Wedding?
“Where’s your wedding going to be?” That’s often the first question someone asks after they hear that you’re going to tie the knot. And it’s a good question! Where indeed? At…
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The ABCs of Updating Your Outdoor Space, Part I
Bright blue skies, warmer temperatures and buds popping out on your flowering shrubs are luring you outside. And, if your family is like my family, you know you’ll soon be spending the…
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Make Your Sunroom Sensational!
What an irony. Mankind spends a couple of million years perfecting homes that shield us from the elements and what happens? An estimated 3 million people a year build sunrooms specifically designed…
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How To Create An Amazing Container Garden
Yearning for petunias in Tucson or cactus in Chicago? Even if you have limited outdoor space you can still create a wonderful container garden. Growing plants in tubs, clay pots, wooden planters…
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Everything To Know About Picnics (And Picnic Tables!)
It will come, it really will. Picnic weather! Ah, picnics. What could be better than great food and delicious drinks eaten outside either on a blanket or (even better!) at your favorite…
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Creative Uses For Your Garden Storage Shed, Part I
The garden shed has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Back in the day, the garden shed was a pretty pathetic little building. How well I remember my Grandfather’s garden…
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Why Kids Need To Play Outside (And How To Get Them To Do It!)
Believe it or not, the national panic about kids spending too much time indoors has become so extreme that it even has a name now: Nature Deficit Disorder or “NDD.” A…
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