Category Archives: plants

Color Explosion

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Marigolds & Society Garlic

I know, I know, what’s so great about flowers. The thing is I LOVE THEM! So let me apologize for anyone who reads our blog regularly… I’m obsessed …. and you’ll see more than your share. I plant flowers everywhere in my yard and I’m always amazed at how big and beautiful they get. I never thought I had a green thumb, but apparently it’s got some color to it… just like my yard. It’s also amazing that we’re in the middle of one of one of the worst droughts in Texas and it just hasn’t affected these plants. Trust ….

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Air Plants Get a Home

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In an earlier post I showed you my new little air plants (Tillandsia) and have been working to find them a home. I purchased some globes from CB2 with this plan in mind but as I put one together I realized that although it looks lovely, surely I could come up with something a little more creative and “funky”.

This calls for a visit to Richie’s junk boxes! Richie is a “junker”, a lover of old things and a collector of some of the most amazing “junk”. He uses them in his artwork and is constantly ….

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Air Plants!

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I’m in Love!
My air plants arrived in the mail today and they are just the coolest, weirdest, most beautiful things I’ve seen.  I can tell this may become another one of my obsessions.  I couldn’t resist taking some pictures of them after they “took a bath”.  They had to take a nice bath after their journey from Seattle and now they’re ready for their containers.  Hummm…. so many fun options for these little babies.  I bought some great little glass balls at CB2 for these and I need to just put them all together.  Make the ….

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