How to build affordable DIY window box planters

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DIY window box planters on a garden shed

Could your outdoors use more flowers? Enhance your garden shed or home by learning how to build easy DIY window box planters using scrap wood and stencils!  Welcome summer! Nearly… once our weather cooperates that is. However with this fine warmer season approaching, that means one main thing in these parts… it’s time to give […]

How to create flower bed edging like a pro!

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How to edge flowerbeds like a pro

This guide shares how to create flower bed edging like a pro using one simple garden tool! This is an easy DIY technique that offers instant and outstanding results! With video. And be sure to visit Part 2 – How to freshen up flowerbed edges with more pictures Every so often I get asked how […]

A trip to a spectacular tulip festival in Abbotsford, BC

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Every single year I read the notice… “Tulip Festival! Buy your tickets online to guarantee entry!” And every year, I’d drive down the highway, attempting to spot the fields from a distance, to gauge if the visit would be worth it. But I never did spot the fields. So I never did go. However, this […]

A faux spilled bucket of spring flowers, and a cleaner flower bed

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So… something happened after Journal 3 – just getting on with it. As your comments have come gratefully pouring in, my little brain went KABOOM… and I started hustling. I promise to sit down and read your wonderful comments tonight…. I’m excited at what you had to say! But I think it’s safe to say, the theory […]