Create a Small, Spring Container with a Big Personality

Who ever said small garden containers had to be boring or lack personality? Your 10-inch, 12-inch, or even smaller planters can make a bold statement even though they may not have the same growing ...

Design a Tropical, Low-Maintenance Summer Container Garden

Our gardens can have many different looks, themes, and characteristics to give us that unique feel we all crave as gardeners, and one look many of us seek year after year is a bold, tropical look. ...

Summer Harvest Abundance in Outdoor Container Gardens

Summer is the season of abundant harvests! From loads of tasty tomatoes and peppers to delicious fresh herbs, growing your favorite food crops in a container garden has never been easier thanks to ...

Planter to Table: Focaccia Pizza

Planter to Table: Focaccia Pizza

The pressure is on! It’s almost officially summer, and in our home that means hosting many gatherings and events throughout the season. My biggest challenge: What will I serve that everyone will love? I really enjoy featuring home cooked meals for my guests and of our...

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The Planter Recipe That Gives Back

The Planter Recipe That Gives Back

A display of blooming plants can give people so much delight throughout the growing season. Our Recipe for the month of May features a gorgeous Cup Tall Planter arrangement created to give back to nature’s pollinators, and beautify the outdoors. Below is a diagram of...

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Planter To Table: Beans For Good Luck!

Planter To Table: Beans For Good Luck!

My kids as of today, are so obsessed with instant gratification. Everything seems to be resolved instantly for them. Finished reading a book? Download the next one. Forgot your homework at school? Another parent can text it over. Hungry? Have Uber deliver a meal. For...

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Planter To Table: Hiding Tomatoes

Planter To Table: Hiding Tomatoes

Children, it seems, are born with their taste buds clearly defined. Take my daughter for example. She was definitely a herbivore in a past life. Whenever the family sits at a restaurant for dinner, my daughter always wants to order a salad and although content with a...

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Planter to Table - Feta-lla and Her Herb Friends

Planter to Table - Feta-lla and Her Herb Friends

If you could fall in love with food, I would marry feta cheese. Combine it with some fresh herbs and you can create fantastic recipes of sheep’s milk cheese, with an array of wonderful flavors. Matter of fact, my 9-year-old beat me to it. She even made a cartoon to...

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Planter To Table - Using Fresh and Dried Herbs

Planter To Table - Using Fresh and Dried Herbs

Planter to Table - the stories of a passionate brown thumb gardener and cook. by Paula Douer      These days it seems that everyone would prefer fresh, but in the case of mint I must advocate for both equally. Fresh mint is beautifully aromatic and poignant,...

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