Getting the lighting right in your home is unbelievably significant, just ask any interior design professional. Not only do you want the fixture to match the style you are seeking, it should also cast the proper amount and level of light on the room. Enter the all important dimmer switch. With these you can alter [...]

Right about now, many garden dwellers are thinking about how pretty soon they will be able to pull their outdoor furniture back into the sun from storage. They along with those who leave their garden furniture out through all seasons may be facing the same question. Should I restore the furniture to its former rust [...]

I can’t begin to count the number of times I have purchased a caddy for my garden hose, and how many times they have let me down. Therefore, I have been looking for something that is heavy duty, can be mounted on a wall, and I can make myself with a certain level of ease. [...]

Wrought iron garden gates and fences are definitely some of my favorurite things. The detail, the intricate squiggles, swirls, and the repetition all appeal to me. But mostly, I like how you can see through those widely spaced, but not too widely spaced bars. They allow for light, and view to pass into and out [...]

While I am not a huge fan of outdoor holiday decorations, such as inflatable snow globes the size of a car, or a sea of flashing decorations that annoy next door neighbours, I do look forward to a certain decoration. I love the way it looks after I line my garden fence with little white [...]

Alright, so you do not have a garden, nor a an allotment, but you can still participate in growing plants if you so desire. Hopefully you do have either a patio, balcony, or a sunny windowsill, and if so, these will do just fine. You can explore tons of interesting container options if you do [...]

If I were to be completely honest I would have to tell you that winter gardens make me blue. In fact, this is so much so that I have even decorated the drawing room in the last two homes I have owned so that the winter garden does not catch my eye. The layout consists [...]

It is indeed a sad occasion when a tree in your garden dies, and can be quite unsightly too. But following the old advice of turn lemons into lemon aid, think of this situation as an opportunity to place a new type of tree where the old once grew. It will also allow you to [...]

I hold flowers that are not only beautiful and fragrant, but off putting to predators in the highest esteem. There is something so remarkable about a flower that produces glorious delicate blossoms, and simultaneously fends off enemies. This is precisely what I found in the “Baby Moon” daffodil, thus it has become one of my [...]

When to prune your plants might be a mystery of sorts in the beginning.  But you can relax because there is an abundance of information to give you guidance in this area. To get you off on the right foot, here are some examples of when you can be most confident that it is time [...]