Basically creating this thread to say I got a little poison ivy on my wrist. BUT, this jewelweed salve is AMAZING. Where was this stuff the last time I got the rash?
Also, anyone want to recommend a particularly gorgeous shrub for my perennial bed (pic below)? We can see this bed from our porch, so I'm thinking summer bloom would be ideal. Zone 7, full sun in the morning. I was thinking an endless summer hydrangea and maybe something else. Shrubs would be located in the space behind me in the pic below.
Since taking this pic, I put in like a dozen more perennials in the space in front of me (I was removing weeds, that's where I got the poison ivy). Behind me in the pic are more weeds and a butterfly bush & crepe myrtle.
My random is that I love how one side of our living room is coming together. I found the lamp at Goodwill last night shade and all for $9. 🙌🏻 I love a good deal!
My brother & SIL's kitchen has been on elledecor.com twice recently. I mean they paid a fortune for it & it's nice...but didn't think it was that nice. LOL.
My brother & SIL's kitchen has been on elledecor.com twice recently. I mean they paid a fortune for it & it's nice...but didn't think it was that nice. LOL.
We're ordering a bunch of climbing roses for the back wall of our garden. Behind it is a big park, so part of the reason is for there to be some thorns so people won't want to climb over our fence to steal thing/break into our house. Plus...PRETTY!
These are the varieties we're looking at getting (sorry for big pics):
Found a table for our foyer! Randomly found it at homegoods that just opened by our beach house (2 hours from home). Thankfully we had DH's truck bc I was not letting it go.
Not quite sure what is going to go above it yet. Was thinking maybe a grouping of 3 with art and a small mirror.
I have discovered this year that I have a serious gardening bug. All I want to do with my weekends is work in my gardens and make them beautiful. After 12+ years of renting, I'm finally getting to make MY gardens mine. It's so exciting.
We bought this house knowing the gardens needed work. We took down 7 dead trees last summer and I dug up 3 dead/dying shrubs. This spring I have: -Dug up 2 dead stumps -Dug up/cut down 6 sickly shrubs -Edged and mulched all of the garden beds (26 bags of pine bark mulch) -Transplanted and thinned astilbe, bleeding hearts, peonies and hostas from an overgrown mess of a garden -planted blueberry bushes, tons of herbs, clematis, columbine -Planted a veggie garden (tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, carrots, lettuce, peas and pole beans) and strawberries
I'm not going to know what to do with myself when they are under control... maybe I'll lay a new front walkway.