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Best Cut Flowers to Grow In Your Cutting Garden

Plant these flowers to get bountiful bouquets from your cutting garden this summer.

April 15, 2020 By Jenna 2 Comments

There’s just something about fresh cut flowers, isn’t there? I love having my own cut flower garden to pull flowers from during the summer. Below, you’ll find my list of the best cut flowers to grow in your own cutting garden. You’ll be overflowing with gorgeous bouquets all summer!

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Tips for Beautiful Planters All Summer Long - choose annuals that are proven to perform well.

5 Tips for Beautiful Planters All Summer Long

June 13, 2017 By Jenna 28 Comments

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Proven Winners, however all opinions and flower pot mishaps are 100% mine.  A few weeks ago, I was perusing the Home Depot completely unaware of the valuable life lesson that was about to play out before my very eyes. The Circus and I had a slew of errands to…

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Instead of paying $50 on a planter pot, buy a cheap one and dress it up with spray paint! Easy Painted Planter Pots | Gardening | Fiddle Leaf Fig | Geometric | Painting Patterns

Snazzy Painted Planter Pots

March 3, 2016 By Jenna 45 Comments

I am willing spring to come with this project. Willing the cold cold cold air of yesterday to go away and the warmth that we enjoyed just on Monday to return. Living in the Tennessee valley, you literally never know what the weather may bring. And now, I just realized I sound like an old…

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How I Water My Indoor Plants Only ONCE Every Few Months - And yes, they are thriving! / Nimbus Pot

Achieving Green Thumb Status

September 24, 2015 By Jenna 83 Comments

One summer, my great uncle and I got into gardening.

Ok well, it was more me and he just listened to me rant on about it.

We visited every Lowe’s, Home Depot, plant nursery and any store basically within an hour of us that was selling plants.

He bought each of us a rose bush.

I bought each of us a tropical plant of some sort.

As if I know the name, I just thought it was pretty.

The rose bushes lived.

The tropical plants died.

As did anything else I purchased.

I read his mother’s book on gardening that was thicker than the Bible.

I’m not kidding. I still have it.

I attempted to propogate hydrangeas.

I divided irises.

I ordered a ridiculous amount of flower seeds from a specialty seed company and planted every last one of them.

Much to my dismay, not a darn thing lived except for a few irises.

It was apparent that summer that me and flowers didn’t get along too well.

When I realized Grunt Labor was such a fantastic gardener, I jumped for joy and didn’t worry with anything flower related again.

Things have changed though.

I have now achieved green thumb status, y’all.

And I didn’t have to lie, cheat or steal to get it.

Ok, I did cheat a little…

Click the link below to read the rest…

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Tips & Tricks for the Perfect Container Garden

Tips and Tricks for The Perfect Container Garden

August 4, 2015 By Jenna

The last time I wrote about gardening or flowers in general, I was apparently misleading.

You see the post was titled how to get a yard full of hydrangeas, but all I did to get a yard full of beautiful hydrangeas was have a husband who heard me say I’d never leave if I had them.

So I see where you may have been a bit miffed with me.

But it was a good story, no?

This time though, I promise, I actually have real tips and tricks for you on how to get those glorious container gardens that we all lust after at the plant nurseries.

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Opt for lots of windows in the bathroom.

13 Stunning Home Ideas I Found in One Place

June 15, 2015 By Jenna 24 Comments

Last Wednesday they let me into the Nashville Symphony Show House.

I’m quite certain the powers that be must have never read my blog before to know that this gal is borderline redneck and hadn’t set foot in such a fancy house before – otherwise they may have thought twice before sending my invitation.

I walked out of that house scolding myself for using inappropriate language in front of people who never met me before, but brimming over with DIY and decorating ideas.

I quickly got over the inappropriate language scolding. I feel overall they became better people for having met me.

The ideas though – my head is still spinning. Here’s 14 stunning home ideas that I took away from the Nashville Symphony Show House – and really, there were waaaay more than 14, but I felt I should cut it off somewhere instead of keeping you stuck here reading all day.

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Teapot Planter: Flower Pot made out of an old Teapot

Teapot Planter

June 18, 2013 By Jenna 15 Comments

I was hoping all my fun planters would be ready for some beauty shots by now, but they are not except for this one. And its my favorite anyway. Its an old metal teapot planter. The best thing about it? I scoured it up from my Pap’s old toolshed. He used to keep random nuts,…

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