OUTDOOR LIVING | MOSQUITO REPELLANT OPTIONS
05/30/2024
I’m on a mission to avoid any and all mosquitoes while I sit on my back patio this summer. I’m armed and ready with every mosquito deterring solution I can find. I have already shared my mosquito repelling planter. With that I’ve added plenty of citronella candles. We also added an outdoor fan to help blow those suckers away…and to keep us cooler. I’ve got the essential oil options covered, too. My favorite disco ball diffuser on a battery base filled with mosquito repelling scents. My homemade essential oil bug spray. And insect repellant lotion. Get ready for a fight this summer, mosquitoes. I’ve got earth, wind, fire…and smells. I’m determined to win this war!
I bought these faux ferns when we first built the barn for greenery that wouldn’t need to be watered....
Happy Memorial Day a day late. The unofficial start of summer is here. I spent part of the holiday...
Let’s make some thieves cleaner so I can clean the kitchen shelves before I decorate them for spring. Thieves is the best smelling cleaner and it works for everything. It just takes one tiny capful of thieves concentrate mixed with water in a 16-ounce spray bottle to make the best smelling all-natural, all-purpose cleaner. If you do the math, one 14.4 ounce bottle of thieves concentrate at $25 will make 29 16-ounce bottles of cleaner. It doesn’t get much more economical as that. Have I mentioned how good it smells? It’s the only cleaner I use these days. Now that the shelves are clean, let’s finally decorate them for spring. This is my first attempt at growing an orchid. The nursery pot it was in fit perfectly into this cute owl planter which fit perfectly on my kitchen shelves. Since there is no such thing as too many plants,...
I have two places where, when I water, the garden hose pulls through my flower beds and destroys the...
When my husband’s dad passed away at the end of last year, I saved a flower from one of...
POLLINATOR BEE HOTEL | AIR BEE ‘N BEE
05/21/2024
Did you know that if it weren’t for bees transferring pollen from male blooms to female blooms, gardens wouldn’t produce many crops at all? Bees don’t just sting or produce honey. In fact, wild bees are not aggressive at all and many don’t even have stingers. They are an important staple in the success of flower and vegetable gardens everywhere. I wanted to do my part to encourage as many pollinators as possible to visit my gardens this summer so we installed an actual hotel for the bees, an Air Bee ‘n Bee if you will, to protect them from the weather and give them a safe space to rest and lay their eggs. There are many different styles of bee hotels. I chose this simple honeycomb model which we installed on the fence soon to be surrounded by wildflowers and sunflowers. I hope it will be the perfect...
Welcome! We freshened up for your arrival. Glad you’re here. I can’t stop the black and white around our...
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