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The Story of a Blue Jay
Posted by LIz
Once upon a time there was a man and his wife that were working in their garden, when they unknowingly, through their eager actions to create a lovely landscape, did a horrible thing… and were faced with the realization that it would be difficult to make good with the disaster that faced them… What should they do? Throw in the towel, and try to forget the murderous actions somehow? This is the story of a blue jay that wouldn’t give up…
Before and After: Landscape and a DIY Pergola
Posted by LIz
With Spring here, I figured outside gardening and landscaping plans are being formed by some of you, so I wanted to share this before and after of our former house’s front garden area where we dramatically changed the look by landscaping and constructing this DIY pergola from scratch. I hope it will inspire you to see what a dramatic difference landscape and details can make for your house too!
How, Where, When and How I Use Mulch in My Landscape
Posted by LIz
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
We have a quite a bit of landscaping at ‘Our House‘, now that the snow has melted, we’re finally celebrating the weather this last week, it’s been a gorgeous mid 60’s and 70’s! Yay!! Last weekend we got 6″ of snow!! I’m not kidding! It’s been a long winter and days like this last weekend are days to celebrate for sure…
All us ‘Northern Wisconsinites’ crawl out of our houses, like bears just waking up from hibernation, rub our eyes, and then do a little ‘jig’ in the lawn when we realize we’re not going to get frostbit or need to snowblow the driveway before we can leave.
Instead, we run to the barn,
push aside the shovels and snowblowers to look for gardening supplies hoping there is something we can do outside, but in reality, the ground is frozen 6″ below the top for a few more weeks, so we’re limited to picking up branches, cutting off last years foliage from the perennials, and one more thing… click here to read the rest of the story…
In Case You Missed the Memo… I’ve Been a Painting Fool this Summer
Posted by LIz
The exterior of ‘Our House’ really needed a fresh coat of paint, (it’s cedar lap siding) and I decided to change the color from green to blue… but when we bought the house 16 years ago, it was stained gray, let me show you:
This is what the front of ‘Our House’ looked like the day we moved in.
After much hard work, a lot of landscaping, and building a pergola a few years ago, and painting (3 times over the past 15 years) here’s what that same porch looked like before we painted it this last time… when it was still green: READ ON…
Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Garden, Paint Treatments, Porch and Entry, Uncategorized
Tags: after, before, blue, garden, green, home to cottage, hometocottage, landscape, paint, pergola, porch, vintage
Our House… Adding a Little Height to Plants
Posted by LIz
The front of ‘Our House’ has a very symmetrical looking face, with a chimney perfectly in the center and two tall windows flanking each side of that chimney.
Here’s a picture of it the very first day we bought it over 15 years ago:
I’m glad to say that most of the front of ‘Our House’ looks very different from this READ ON…
