We've been gardening up a storm at our new/old house, and my son in law caught the shopping fever and came home from his local Home Depot with a bunch of the cute little boxed shrubs I had found at my Home Depot. They're extraordinarily healthy and will catch up with their larger neighbors in no...

Keep that mojo cookin'!

That's quite an extraction! Beautiful and precise and so eye-catching. The message is a reminder we all need to hear.

What great colors! I love the whimsical vibe you have created!

Beautiful work! Love how you've done that division at the center.

Love the use of the extraction--it adds so much life to this beautiful page!

Delightful! Love all the trim...and those alphas!

Gorgeous scenery, and I love the bird photos! Wish one of these beauties would stop by my feeders! Looks like some kind of finch? We have many members of the finch family visit us and quite a few of them are characters!

This is superb! Love those smiling faces crossing the spread's centerline!

Lovely work! Excellent use of the heart embellishment here.

Wonderful design! The sepia photos work beautifully, and I love the flow of imagery!

No, no, no! It's not your thumbs! You have simply not mind-merged with the plants that are native to your area. All of us have been led away from what wants to grow naturally with us to those colorful exotic divas that fly off the shelves at Home Depot, then die. Find your native plants and...

Thank you so much! Doing this is like painting with plants and at this time of year it's so much fun to plan and shop and plant...and hope for success!

It's a BIG level, that's for sure...and there's more happening around the back. This is year 3 of beating back the overgrowth and working on this is pure joy!

Thanks so much fellow gardener! The house is an 1876 farmhouse and when we bought it a few years ago it was overgrown with every invasive plant in the book. This is our third year of cultivation and it's so cool to see that so many of the plants are thriving. Seeing them come back in the Spring...