Garden Crafts and Decorating - Bringing Your Garden Indoors
Enjoy your garden year round by bringing plants and nature indoors. Crafting and decorating with plants, seeds, flowers and herbs from your own garden will remind you of your garden even when you can't be in it.
How to Dry Hydrangeas - The Best Ways to Dry Hydrangea Flowers
Hydrangeas are one of those flowers that almost dry themselves. Once dry, they can last and look beautiful for years. You can dry hydrangeas several ways, but IÂ’ve found the best way to dry hydrangea flowers is the water drying method. This drying method helps the hydrangea flowers retain their color and last longer. HereÂ’s how.
Hydrangeas are one of those flowers that almost dry themselves. Once dry, they can last and look beautiful for years. You can dry hydrangeas several ways, but IÂ’ve found the best way to dry hydrangea flowers is the water drying method. This drying method helps the hydrangea flowers retain their color and last longer. HereÂ’s how.
Bring Outdoor Accessories Inside this Winter for Year Round Enjoyment
Cold weather used to mean moving all your delicate flower pots and garden ornaments into the garage for safe keeping. Why just store your garden accessories and have them take up space when you could put them to good use indoors. Here are some creative ideas for using garden items indoors during the winter.
Cold weather used to mean moving all your delicate flower pots and garden ornaments into the garage for safe keeping. Why just store your garden accessories and have them take up space when you could put them to good use indoors. Here are some creative ideas for using garden items indoors during the winter.
Clip Art - Garden Clip Art
Here’s a selection of garden clip art, including gardens, flowers, vegetables, birds and insects, to spice up your garden writing. Even in this day of instant digital photos, clip art is still a fun way to make a quick point. Thanks to some wonderfully skilled people, garden clip art has gotten more abundant and more sophisticated every year.
Here’s a selection of garden clip art, including gardens, flowers, vegetables, birds and insects, to spice up your garden writing. Even in this day of instant digital photos, clip art is still a fun way to make a quick point. Thanks to some wonderfully skilled people, garden clip art has gotten more abundant and more sophisticated every year.
Creating Quick & Easy Thanksgiving Centerpieces from Your Garden
Creating quick and easy Thanksgiving centerpieces from your garden.
Creating quick and easy Thanksgiving centerpieces from your garden.
Drying Flowers
Save your garden's beauty by drying and preserving your flowers. Methods include air drying, speeding the drying process with silica gel and even easier, microwaving flower buds. Drying flowers is an easy way to extend your garden season.
Save your garden's beauty by drying and preserving your flowers. Methods include air drying, speeding the drying process with silica gel and even easier, microwaving flower buds. Drying flowers is an easy way to extend your garden season.
Drying Herbs - How to Dry and Store Your Fresh Garden Herbs
Fresh garden herbs can easily be air dried, to preserve their flavor and quality. Air drying herbs is not only the easiest and least expensive way to dry fresh herbs, but this slow drying process also doesn't deplete the herbs of their oils. Here are some simple steps for air drying herbs.
Fresh garden herbs can easily be air dried, to preserve their flavor and quality. Air drying herbs is not only the easiest and least expensive way to dry fresh herbs, but this slow drying process also doesn't deplete the herbs of their oils. Here are some simple steps for air drying herbs.
Fall Decorations from the Garden
Using flowers from the garden to decorate is a fast and easy routine during the summer. Fall lends itself to more sumptuous decorating. The richer colors, dried seed pods and grasses and ample harvest provide supplies for some wonderful centerpieces, swags, and crafts. Here are some ideas for fall decorating from the garden. Use them as is or let them feed your imagination.
Using flowers from the garden to decorate is a fast and easy routine during the summer. Fall lends itself to more sumptuous decorating. The richer colors, dried seed pods and grasses and ample harvest provide supplies for some wonderful centerpieces, swags, and crafts. Here are some ideas for fall decorating from the garden. Use them as is or let them feed your imagination.
Forcing Spring Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Gardeners in cold climates can have an early breath of spring by forcing branches of spring flowering trees and shrubs into bloom. Forcing spring bloomers is an easy task. The hardest part is probably getting yourself outside in the cold, snowy weather.
Gardeners in cold climates can have an early breath of spring by forcing branches of spring flowering trees and shrubs into bloom. Forcing spring bloomers is an easy task. The hardest part is probably getting yourself outside in the cold, snowy weather.
Garden Decorations
Articles on making crafts to put in your gardern, like toad house from old clay pots and potted fountains.
Articles on making crafts to put in your gardern, like toad house from old clay pots and potted fountains.
How to Dry or Cure Gourds
Ornamental gourds grow as easily as zucchini. But unlike zucchini, there is no limit to what you can do with gourds. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely. Drying gourds is an easy process, but it takes time. Here’s all you need to know about how to dry gourds.
Ornamental gourds grow as easily as zucchini. But unlike zucchini, there is no limit to what you can do with gourds. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely. Drying gourds is an easy process, but it takes time. Here’s all you need to know about how to dry gourds.
How to Preserve Fruits and Vegetables
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.
Hypertufa - How To Make Your Own Hypertufa Troughs & Decorations
Hypertufa planters are a wonderful way to bring the look of stone into your garden, without the weight. Hypertufa is easy to make yourself at home. Although it can be messy, it’s also a lot of fun. Here are some basic recipes and some creative suggestions for hypertufa toughs and garden decorations.
Hypertufa planters are a wonderful way to bring the look of stone into your garden, without the weight. Hypertufa is easy to make yourself at home. Although it can be messy, it’s also a lot of fun. Here are some basic recipes and some creative suggestions for hypertufa toughs and garden decorations.
Kids Crafts: Top 8 Garden Crafts for kids.
Let them have fun pressing flowers, making mosaic garden stones and creating garden signs. Makes you curious to see the next 8 top crafts.
Let them have fun pressing flowers, making mosaic garden stones and creating garden signs. Makes you curious to see the next 8 top crafts.
Making Gifts from the Garden
Gardeners love to show off their gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Here are 12 quick and easy gifts made from the garden that your friends will love to receive.
Gardeners love to show off their gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Here are 12 quick and easy gifts made from the garden that your friends will love to receive.
Making Gifts from Your Garden
Gardeners are a proud lot. We love to show off our gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Herbs, flowers, leaves and even seeds can be turned into thoughtful gifts to give year round and they don't take much effort at all, since you were gardening anyway, right? Here are 12 quick and easy gifts from the garden that your friends will love to receive.
Gardeners are a proud lot. We love to show off our gardens. We also love to share them and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Herbs, flowers, leaves and even seeds can be turned into thoughtful gifts to give year round and they don't take much effort at all, since you were gardening anyway, right? Here are 12 quick and easy gifts from the garden that your friends will love to receive.
Preserving Your Summer Blooms
Quick and easy ideas for saving your garden blooms by drying and pressing. Plus more ideas for using them in sachets and other crafts.
Quick and easy ideas for saving your garden blooms by drying and pressing. Plus more ideas for using them in sachets and other crafts.
Pressed Flower Picture
Save your prized summer blooms with a little ingenuity and help from our Family Crafts Guide.
Save your prized summer blooms with a little ingenuity and help from our Family Crafts Guide.
Pressing Fall Leaves - How to Preserve the Beauty of Fall Foliage
Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.
Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.
Pressing Flowers
Pressing flowers and foliage from your garden is a wonderful way to preserve its beauty. You don't need a lot of expensive tools to get started with pressed flowers. You might also be surprised at the variety of flowers, leaves and even weeds, that press well. Here are some tips from an expert at pressing flowers, to press your own flowers and use the pressed flowers to their best advantage.
Pressing flowers and foliage from your garden is a wonderful way to preserve its beauty. You don't need a lot of expensive tools to get started with pressed flowers. You might also be surprised at the variety of flowers, leaves and even weeds, that press well. Here are some tips from an expert at pressing flowers, to press your own flowers and use the pressed flowers to their best advantage.
Tulips as Cut Flowers
Tulips just don't seem to behave as cut flowers. They bend and bow and contort. How do you deal with tulips in a vase?
Tulips just don't seem to behave as cut flowers. They bend and bow and contort. How do you deal with tulips in a vase?
Beaded Garden - Garden Book Review
When you can't garden but you still want flowers, you can turn your love of flowers into an exquisite beaded garden with the help of "The Beaded Garden", by Diane Fitzgerald.
When you can't garden but you still want flowers, you can turn your love of flowers into an exquisite beaded garden with the help of "The Beaded Garden", by Diane Fitzgerald.