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Privacy for Chain Link Fence and Patio
Hi! A chain link fence separates my home's backyard from a busy playground. I've planted schip laurels for privacy, but my home's backyard still has next to no privacy. I used to have a
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Beautiful flower garden.
DIY Bird Feeder Station
Longing to hear birds singing in your backyard and to see their beautiful colors? Using black pipe and connectors to create a stand set in a bit of concrete you can easily make a diy bird feeding station that will attract many different kinds of birds to your yard.
This station can hold suet, thistle, a bird seed mix as well as a platform feeder for larger birds to hold black oil sunflower seeds.
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Solar Chandi
while rewiring a chandelier http://craftingoccurs.blogspot.com/2010/06/u... I was left with an extra tier of chandelier. Hey that rhymes :) so I painted it green and hung it from a tree
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Veggie Garden Seed Packet and Flowerpot Wreath
I'd been wanting to make my own rendition of the popular "flower pot wreath", so I whitewashed some small clay flowerpots and tied them to a grapevine wreath with gardener's twine. They
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This is fabulous- love the whitewashed pots with the soft color scheme!
My Garden and Yard After the Rain
There was a break in the rain this morning, so I ventured out with my camera to capture some of the amazing growth that's happened with all the rain here. Come see our flowers and garden.
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Beautiful! I'm glad for all the rain we get. Your Daylilies are very pretty. :)
No Power Tools? No Problem! Garden Art You Can Make
If you don't have power tools or don't want to use them, there are still a lot of creative projects you can make from recycled items.
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Barb Rosen Thank you kindly Duchess Rosen!
DIY - Old Fashioned Tire Swing
If you have a large tree in your yard and some kids who enjoy swinging, here is a fun and relatively inexpensive project for you. All you need is an old tire which you can probably get
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This is so much fun for the kids.
Gardenia or Camellia
Which is it ?? Live in zone 8 and it gets maybe 2 hours of sun in the morning, shade the rest of the day. I just fertilized it 2 days ago and put some straw around it.
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Popular Hardy Waterlilies for Your Pond
Hardy waterlilies are mildly fragrant, day-blooming plants characterized by floating flowers and leaves and are available in a variety of colors and sizes. They'll survive outdoors in
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