I keep thinking of something like Marlee and the Technicolor Dream Meadow for your house, but that perhaps only works if your house is also a touring rock musical.
We named our house Happy Happy Fun Land as an joke (during massive DIY renovations, when it was the opposite of happy happy) and it has stuck.
We ordered a prefab shed built to custom measurements (with extra windows) during 2020. It has been such a sanctuary. I have a couple of videos and 360 video on my YouTube channel. (Not sure if links work in comments, but the channel is Sarah Shotts.) 🏠🌳🎨
For gardening I love plonking in herbs. They are usually quite hardy even when ignored. (Especially mint which will completely take over if you are cool with that.) Also bulbs are super easy: daffodils, snowflakes, alliums.) Put them down in autumn and they come up every year like magic. 🌱
My favorite way to grow plants is trial & error. My yard is full of things I plonked in the ground my first summer here, and some of them survived!! I identify as a lazy gardener, so 90% of what I plant is hardy perennials. Learning about native plants is the BEST - it’s easiest to grow the things that grow there naturally!! This will be my fourth summer in my little sanctuary home, and I’m adding honeysuckle & peonies, plus planting a bunch of sunflowers around the porch. Will they grow?? Who knows! Gonna try anyway!
Hi Mar, thank you for your writing and I look forward to hearing from you every week! Re: gardening recommendations, I highly recommend working with a local master gardener. You can usually find one through your local state university extension program. A local master gardener will know the terrain and zone, eliminating the work of identifying that yourself.
When we moved into our house, I hired a master gardener to walk the land with me. About $100 for 90 minutes. She helped me identify everything growing, dug into the ground and helped me look at the soil quality. I was such a novice at the time that I couldn’t distinguish between a native plant, an invasive weed or a garden veg! She sketched out the activities that I’d need to do each season, made recommendations for plants suitable for our property and helped me ID issues that needed a professional like an arborist. And the biggest gift that the master gardener gave me: confidence! There’s so much info out there that it’s easy to get oversaturated with details. The master gardener was like, “plant what you like and keep trying!”
I keep thinking of something like Marlee and the Technicolor Dream Meadow for your house, but that perhaps only works if your house is also a touring rock musical.
We named our house Happy Happy Fun Land as an joke (during massive DIY renovations, when it was the opposite of happy happy) and it has stuck.
We ordered a prefab shed built to custom measurements (with extra windows) during 2020. It has been such a sanctuary. I have a couple of videos and 360 video on my YouTube channel. (Not sure if links work in comments, but the channel is Sarah Shotts.) 🏠🌳🎨
For gardening I love plonking in herbs. They are usually quite hardy even when ignored. (Especially mint which will completely take over if you are cool with that.) Also bulbs are super easy: daffodils, snowflakes, alliums.) Put them down in autumn and they come up every year like magic. 🌱
Loving your vision for this space! 🍃
My favorite way to grow plants is trial & error. My yard is full of things I plonked in the ground my first summer here, and some of them survived!! I identify as a lazy gardener, so 90% of what I plant is hardy perennials. Learning about native plants is the BEST - it’s easiest to grow the things that grow there naturally!! This will be my fourth summer in my little sanctuary home, and I’m adding honeysuckle & peonies, plus planting a bunch of sunflowers around the porch. Will they grow?? Who knows! Gonna try anyway!
Hi Mar, thank you for your writing and I look forward to hearing from you every week! Re: gardening recommendations, I highly recommend working with a local master gardener. You can usually find one through your local state university extension program. A local master gardener will know the terrain and zone, eliminating the work of identifying that yourself.
When we moved into our house, I hired a master gardener to walk the land with me. About $100 for 90 minutes. She helped me identify everything growing, dug into the ground and helped me look at the soil quality. I was such a novice at the time that I couldn’t distinguish between a native plant, an invasive weed or a garden veg! She sketched out the activities that I’d need to do each season, made recommendations for plants suitable for our property and helped me ID issues that needed a professional like an arborist. And the biggest gift that the master gardener gave me: confidence! There’s so much info out there that it’s easy to get oversaturated with details. The master gardener was like, “plant what you like and keep trying!”