Fresh Herb plants as gifts

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Rosemary and thyme plants are two of my favorites, and have a beautiful flowing shape. To cover the pots first wrap them with colorful gift wraps, and add ribbons and ornaments for more color and shine.

Herbs are also great hostess gifts.

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Intimate garden

Creating peaceful space in your garden for walks, meditating,  watching birds, and cats go by.

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Tiles, and planters add color and charm

Filling in

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Impatiens are great flowers for shady spots.
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Invite birds to your garden by Adding bird baths
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Water fountains are beautiful fixtures and create a soothing relaxing corner.

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Add a few Planters, hanging baskets, statues, chimneas to create interesting focal points.

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Perfect shade plants, Hostas

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Hostas growing under a Redbud tree
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Hostas

Hostas are a natural choice for growing under trees. There are over 2,500 varieties, from petite dwarf types to mammoth varieties spanning several feet across. hostas are rugged and once established, they tolerate almost any soil and will grow for years.

Native to northeast Asia, in 1812 it was named after an Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. Hostas do flower and the only strongly fragrant species is “Hostas Plantaginea” with white flowers up to four inches long. Flowers open in the evening and close by morning. This species blooms in late summer and is sometimes known as “August Lily”.

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Flowering Hosta

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Hanging Flower pots on the yard fence

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Marigolds in clay pots

Two winters ago the confederate jasmine that cascaded over the wooden fence couldn’t take the freeze and died away. This spring we are filling the open space with an old piece of wrought iron gate and flower pots.

This was an easy project, just used five small pots, potting mix, vine rope and marigolds.

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Wrapped the rope twice made a loop and attached it to the fence.
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Filled the pot with potting mix and added the marigold and added more mix.

When watering we found out holding the pots up helps water to flow all the way to the bottom of the pot.

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Comfortable and Stylish Gardening and Work clothes

 

Sloggers clogs for Gardners

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Gardening clothes that are durable, and comfortable is key when you have only a few hours to take care of your garden and can’t waste any time worrying about looking like a plumber when reaching out for the weeds.

Designed by Gardner’s these labels had comfort, coverage, durability and convenience with flattering fit and easy wearing fabrics in mind for the all gardners.

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Carhartt, men’s shirt

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Carhartt, women’s overall

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Ann Arbor t-shirt company

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Bogs women’s garden boot

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Yeokou women’s linen jumpsuit for gardening

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