Daily Archives: July 10, 2014

Noted: Great Design Plant: Beavertail Prickly Pear Wows With Color via Houzz

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Great Design Plant: Beavertail Prickly Pear Wows With Color via Houzz

Take a walk through the desert in spring or early summer, and you’ll halt at the sight of vivid magenta flowers bursting forth from this medium-size prickly pear. Beavertail prickly pear’s lack of long spines and presence of attractive gray-blue pads are just a few more reasons desert dwellers will be hurrying to find a place in their landscape to plant this lovely cactus.

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Noted: Movable Wheelbarrow Bench from Improvised Life

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Movable Wheelbarrow Bench from Improvised Life

Movable Wheelbarrow Bench from Improvised Life

Rogier Design the Wheelbench with a built in wheelbarrow wheel. “Moving a bench with two people has always been a chore… This is a bench you can easily maneuver into position. The eye-catching wheel is an invitation to find the best spot. An invitation to be active, to create your world the way you want it, time and time again.”

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Video: In the garden…July 9, 2014: Potting up the New Basil Cuttings

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Potting up the new basil cuttings I showed off last week.

Video: In the garden...July 9, 2014: Potting up the New Basil Cuttings

 

Check out what was happening in the garden a year ago: “Naturally Country in Norwalk, Ohio” and “My sister’s Ohio garden”

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