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Keeping Your Garden and Its Guest Hydrated in the Heat

Keeping Your Garden and Its Guest Hydrated in the Heat

The summer garden needs the summer sun to flourish. However, too much of a good thing, like extended periods of…
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Mix It Up! Five Tips on How to Add Veggies to Your Flower Containers

Mix It Up! Five Tips on How to Add Veggies to Your Flower Containers

Note: The Coeur d’Alene Coop was recently named an expert in a Rent. article. Check out the featured article: Backyard…
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Dig Deep for A Successful Tomato Harvest

Dig Deep for A Successful Tomato Harvest

I love tomatoes. Specifically, I love growing tomatoes. Did you know there are 10,000 varieties of tomatoes? I think I’m…
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16: Funky Containers: How to Convert Old Treasures and Flowers into Masterpieces

16: Funky Containers: How to Convert Old Treasures and Flowers into Masterpieces

Growing flowers, herbs, and vegetables in containers is a great way to brighten a patio or garden area. Often, choosing…
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Container and Small Space Gardening or How to Grow More in Less Space

Container and Small Space Gardening or How to Grow More in Less Space

Not every gardener is blessed with a large garden and some just don’t want to tend a big space. Regardless…
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I had to share this today from The Heirloom Gardener - John Forti. It is so appropriate for how I am feeling and such a great reminder for us all.Meditation for hand, heart & doorway 🌞 "Wreaths have been used for centuries to create a circle of hope. Since ancient times, they have symbolized eternity, because the ring shape has no beginning or end. A linear path merely takes us from beginning to end, but the wheel of life symbolized in a wreath reminds us that we are always most vital, engaged, and alive when we accept our current phase, create forward movement, and mark the season at hand. Entwined botanicals form an artful intersect between natural and domestic worlds—and turn a front doorway into a portal bridging the two...Taking a walk, gathering natural materials, making a wreath—all become a link to ritual and a meditation on the season.Creating a wreath that is a labor of love is a reminder that no matter where we are in the seasons and phases of our lives, we will continue to cycle through the good, the bad, the ups and downs, youth and aging, life and death. Taking comfort in the recurrence of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Drawing vitality from each to celebrate the mood and spirit of the season. Each of us, according to season or phase, will find ourselves moving along the wheel of life, marking the present, utilizing the greens and botanicals that are thriving at the time..."A snippet from my book....and a reminder to get out into nature today and create something beautiful if you can 💚Autumn Wreath. Artist, Gerardine van de Sande Bakhuyzen 1826-1895 ... See MoreSee Less

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