Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

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Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

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Enter to Win a Mid-Summer Garden Giveaway!

July 15, 2013
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Welcome to the Seasonal Wisdom Mid-Summer Garden Giveaway. Could your garden use a little help right about now? If so, here’s your chance to win several cool prizes for your home garden, valued at approximately $100. One prize is this SolaRadiance solar-powered plant container, shown above, which you’ll have a chance to try even before […]

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Vertical Succulent Garden Saves Space, Looks Great

July 11, 2013
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Drought tolerant succulents are easy to love, especially when they are grown as beautifully as this vertical succulent garden in Ventura, California. Come take a tour of this amazing vertical succulent garden that Seasonal Wisdom spotted recently on a garden tour sponsored by the new Ventura Botanical Gardens. These succulents offer a feast of colors, […]

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Fun Ways to Eat Edible Flowers

July 1, 2013
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Here at Seasonal Wisdom, we are big fans of edible flowers. In fact, here are eight of our favorite edible flowers to grow in the garden. To help you get started, Seasonal Wisdom shares some more fun ways to use edible flowers in your drinks and meals, including these squash flowers photographed by Weaselmcfee/Flickr. Once […]

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Creating a Lattice Trellis Garden at Your Home

June 20, 2013
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Contributor: Enjoying a lattice trellis garden at home is easy with these tips from Chris Long at Home Depot. Here’s what Chris recommends in this exclusive guest post for Seasonal Wisdom readers…  Summer’s heat can be brutal, particularly for outdoor plants. But before you take up a project to revitalize your struggling outdoor garden, consider taking […]

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Hot Trends from 2013 Chelsea Flower Show

June 11, 2013
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All eyes turned to London recently for the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show, May 21-25. Celebrating its centennial this year, the world-renowned flower show featured exciting new plants – and old-fashioned favorites – to provide an eye-opening look at how gardening styles have changed over the last 100 years. Come take a peek at the hottest […]

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A Quick Guide to Growing Healthy Tomatoes

June 7, 2013
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One of the best things about summer is growing healthy tomatoes in the garden like these lovely ones shown here. That’s why this Seasonal Wisdom post features helpful tomato gardening advice, as well as the names of unusual heirloom tomatoes to try. You’ll also find several delicious tomato recipes to enjoy this summer. Come take a […]

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Take a Tour of P. Allen Smith’s Garden

June 3, 2013
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P. Allen Smith’s gardens are nationally renowned for their beauty and creativity. Recently, Seasonal Wisdom had a chance to return to his wonderful gardens for the 2013 Garden2Blog event, with bloggers from around the nation. Above is the 1904 Colonial Revival-style house, which he featured in his first book Garden Home. Take a tour of P. […]

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A Tour of P. Allen Smith’s Home

May 23, 2013
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Entering P. Allen Smith’s home at Moss Mountain is a delight worth sharing. After all, the TV personality, book author and lifestyle spokesperson has built a national reputation for his Greek Revival-style house and 600+ acre garden retreat outside Little Rock, Arkansas. Come join Seasonal Wisdom as we take another tour of this amazing home…

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Free Gardening Tips, Food Recipes and More

May 3, 2013
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With the gardening season fresh upon us, these helpful resources may come in handy now. Here are free gardening tips for growing foods — from arugula to winter squash — as well as ornamental plants. You’ll find recipes for using edible flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables in your kitchen.  There is advice for the best […]

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Win a Solar-Powered Garden Fountain!

April 28, 2013
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Garden fountains made a big splash at the 2013 Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle recently. That’s why Seasonal Wisdom is delighted to announce a special drawing with SerenityHealth.com, just as the gardening season begins in earnest. Here’s your chance to win a Flower of France Solar Outdoor Wall Fountain, valued at approximately $225. […]

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