Bringing seasonal color back to the bottom of the driveway topped my list of outdoor tasks. Now it’s done! When we first moved into our house, one of the neighbors mentioned how much she enjoyed seeing our house sign, with it’s four seasoning paintings, when she walked her dog each morning. Built by the previous [...]
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Restoring Our House Numbers Sign
My first outdoor project is to fix up our house marker so it can once again change with the seasons. Down at the bottom of our driveway there’s a large white wooden marker that acts as our house numbers sign. Since we can’t be seen from the road, and the driveway turns up a hill, [...]
Gardens Most Amazing
This garden of heartstopping beauty was shown in a recent episode of Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party on PBS. The great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, traveled to the English countryside to investigate a murder. Instead of the butler, the gardener turned out to have done it – which gave us a glimpse of a monumental, formal [...]
Roses on the Roof
With a committee to tend them, my roses will flourish. Last summer I confessed that I Hate Gardening and gave up on my four-year experiment — trying to grow roses in the front of our house. I ripped them out and planted low-maintenance spirea in their place. However, instead of throwing them out I donated [...]
Canadian Stone Mansion Gardens
In honor of Earth Day, a historic home garden tour. Welcome to Maus Park, an imposing stone house outside Toronto. We’ve already had a walk through this glorious antique-filled mansion plus a close-up look at an old-house kitchen with rustic charm. Yet there’s so much more to see — expansive gardens, simply but artfully landscaped [...]
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