Building a Picket Fence Section Shelf

Building a Picket Fence Section Shelf

As much as i love the idea of building with pallets, it takes so much deconstruction. It always seems like you are basically just salvaging wood.  But when i saw this project on My Repurposed Life website and knew I had a fence section just sitting around… I had...
Terrarium Guide

Terrarium Guide

Create Your Own Terrarium Terrariums are so much fun to create. All you need is a cute container, some soil, pebbles, maybe a piece of driftwood and a little moss and you can create a pretty living ornament as a centerpiece,table garden or desktop wilderness to escape...
Building Your Own Fountain

Building Your Own Fountain

Building your own pond-less water feature is incredibly easy and a one day project you’ll have fun with. Except for self-contained fountain pots that have a built in reservoir, a  pondless water features must have some kind of reservoir to contain the spillover...
Create Your Own Cement Cloth Planter

Create Your Own Cement Cloth Planter

Make Your Own Cement Cloth Planting Pot Want a unique rustic planter for your front porch, lanai or just about anywhere?  These cement cloth planters are a fun easy project for everyone.  It’s a bit messy, kind of like making mud pies, and there are a few safety...
Gardening in Grow Bags

Gardening in Grow Bags

Grow bags are changing the way we garden and giving us so many new options to be at least partly self sustaining and grow our own food. Not only do grow bags eliminate the chore of  digging out and prepping for a garden and amending existing poor soil, they expand...

Tampa Deer Problems? Blast ‘Em!

For those of you in Tampa Bay Neighborhoods (or any area) with deer issues, you might want to try this bad boy!  Not only does it work for deer, it works on other invading animals as well.  Motion activated sprinkler will blast any animal or bird that comes into...
Clever Idea for Hiding the Downspout

Clever Idea for Hiding the Downspout

Plantings are often used to hide downspouts but they are tricky to conceal with shrubbery alone.  Finding this clever idea was pure gold and i look forward to using it on my next design project! There are trellises that exist that are perfect to hide an ugly downspout...

Tampa Bay Deer Repellent

What can be more frustrating than spending money on your landscape only to have your neighborhood deer population decimate your investment?  Not much! One of my first questions to folks wanting a landscape design is “Do you have a deer problem?” In many...
Monster Bougainvillea

Monster Bougainvillea

Everyday, when I’m giving Tampa nursery tours and recommending plants I’m asked THE question: How big will it get? My mind always goes to the largest specimen of the particular plant I’m being asked about.  The other day, on Facebook, someone posted...
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