Gardening

4 Ways To Use A Cold Frame In Your Garden

4 Ways To Use A Cold Frame In Your Garden
A cold frame is a simple structure that utilizes solar energy and insulation to create a microclimate within your garden. Here are some ways to use a cold frame in your garden. Overwintering dormant plants. If you love to use tender or tropical plants in your garden but don’t know what to do with them... 
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Garden Decorating

16 Best Flower Choices For A Bold Winter Garden

16 Best Flower Choices For A Bold Winter Garden
Brighten gray, drizzly days with the  best cool-season flowers, in case th eclimate of your place allows some. Cool-season flowers bring a splash of color to your garden right when you need it most. Where freezes are infrequent, you can plant cheery pansies, snapdragons, English daisies, calendula, candytuft, cineraria, cyclamen, erica, hellebores, Iceland poppy, nemesia,... 
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DIY

DIY Swedish-Inspired Brass Ring And Candle Wreath

DIY Swedish-Inspired Brass Ring And Candle Wreath
This Scandinavian-inspired wreath is amazing for Christmas and just winter decor. You’ll need a brass ring, candle clips, and mini candles – the brass hoop adds modern styling, and the eucalyptus smells ridiculously good! To make the wreath, you’ll simply wire eucalyptus sprigs to the brass hoop with floral wire, clip on the candle, and... 
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DIY Fresh Greenery Garland For Winter Holidays

DIY Fresh Greenery Garland For Winter Holidays
This beautiful garland is easy to make, and you can use fresh greenery from your garden. The supplies are lightweight fresh greenery, twine, scissors, a hot glue gun & glue sticks, wall hooks. Here Silver Dollar Eucalyptus is used but you may go for something else. Begin by deciding where you are going to hang... 
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Garden Decorating

3 Intriguing And Bold Bark Types To Enliven A Winter Scene

3 Intriguing And Bold Bark Types To Enliven A Winter Scene
Unusual bark characteristics such as bright color, unusual texture, and sheen can draw the eye in a drab winter landscape. Trees and shrubs that have colorful, exfoliating, or shiny bark can make outstanding additions to the winter landscape. Stem colors range from red to yellow to orange. Coral-bark Japanese maple, Tatarian dogwood, Alleman’s Compact, Bud’s... 
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DIY Evergreen Christmas Wreath With Feathers

DIY Evergreen Christmas Wreath With Feathers
This evergreen and feather wreath is a cool and modern take on a traditional holidays wreath. You’ll need a metal wreath frame (24″), green floral wire, wire cutters, gardening sheers, feathers, clip on birds, glittery faux foliage stems. Start by using gardening sheers to clip a a bundle of branches. Then cut those branches into... 
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