About Me:
We live in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. With so many deer and other wild life gardening can be a real challange, not to mention the droughts and floods. Recently we sodded our front yard with Zoyza Pallasaides, this is supposed to be drought resistant, and takes little water once it is established. In the back yard we keep the deer out with a 6 foot horse fence, which allows us to grow flowers and vegetables which are included in the butterfly and hummingbird friendly environment. To attain the rustic Hill Country Cottage look, my husband recently mortared flagstone over the entire frint porch, walk way and extended the sides of the driveway with flagstone, then addes a little side yard area making a prayer garden. Now we are looking for some seating ideas, swing, bench?? i am sure to get good ideas on this new site that I just found tonight.
Favorite area of home improvement:
Right now gardening is my interest. Gardening is challenging in the Texas Hill Country and sometimes takes a few years to get some of our plants to really take off. One of my greatest surprises is 4 years ago I planted 3 peach pits. The following year one ot them came up and grew to about 1 foot, the next year it was almost 3 feet and this year it is growing faster and is more than 5 feet. Seems it takes about 4 or 5 years for a peach tree to start blooming and bearing fruit so I'm crossing my fingers plus saying a prayer foe blooms next spring. There is a lot to do inside the house, but it will just have to wait until maybe next winter, I do not want to waste a day of gardening,
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Gardening: Can anyone identify this?
I found this odd growth on a coneflower plant today. I thought another plant was growing up through the plant, but on closer inspection, the green is coming directly out of the center of the flower!
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Commentedlooks like the flower seeds have germinated right in the pistil, they usually dry out and fall ...»
DIY Sandbox
Our sandbox used to have just two by fours surrounding it. We dug it up, added patio paver sand as a base and then screwed in eight foot pressure treated 4x4s. He then covered the
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Cleaning & Organization: Mopping a slate floor
What is the best way to mop a slate floor? What cleaning solution should we use? We have slate tiles in the kitchen with concrete mortar. You can see from the pictures that the surfaces
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CommentedYou an purchase a steam mop, they are not too expensive. I have a bissel, Shark also makes ...»
I love this.
Someone I know posted this on facebook and I just had to share. This is a wall decal hanging in the kitchen. You can find them here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/urbanwalls
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Chalkboard Kitchen Makeover
We decided to update our 1970's kitchen by painting the exteriors and interiors of the cabinets white and then using chalkboard paint on the interior of each door. It made a HUGE
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CommentedLooks so pretty and well organized...
I just wanted to share my pride and joy!
My goldfish pond! It has given us such an enjoyment to sit by everyday. We have 30 goldfish that are now 6 years old! They are getting quite big and beautiful and very soothing to watch.
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