Winter Gardening?
Winter is a great time of cleaning the garden and preparing for the spring days to come when you never have enough time…
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Recent Blogs
David Locke
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Building a Succulent Rock Garden
You seem to see succulents everywhere these days! These fantastic plants are finding their ways onto wedding cakes and just about every catalog in a popular fad that can only be succulent mania. I think just about every restaurant in America has them on the table, some even plastic. My first memory of these great plants is my Great-grandmother Geneva Owen’s patch of them in a sandy soil near her back drive. Even as a child I found them interesting. My young sons love succulen
David Locke
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Gardens of Santa Fe
Recently I had an opportunity to wander the gardens of New Mexico and it’s not the austere wasteland you might think. Surprisingly some of the most diverse and vibrant gardens in the world can be found in one of my favorite places on Earth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe’s neighborhoods burst forth with trees, flowers and vegetation that delight the senses and beguile any gardener, even this easterner. What makes the gardens of Santa Fe so intriguing is that one would think a
David Locke
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The Gift of Plants- Share the Love
Gardens are about loving life and experiencing the wonder of God's world. In short, share the love!
David Locke
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The Mistake and the Golf Cart- Versailles's Gardens
Never would we have decided to spend the entire day in the gardens, but it was a happy accident that I will never forget!
David Locke
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Building a Potager - A French Kitchen Garden
Potagers, are how most people have gardened in France for centuries, where edibles are planted among ornamentals becoming both aesthetic...
David Locke
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Top 10 Trends for 2020 at Market, My Design Forecast
From traditional to modern everything is a mix. Below are my top ten picks for the trends of the year with a few snap shots.
David Locke
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Building A European Pool - Garden Journal 1/15/19
How I can remember so many evenings with her in the pool staring up at the clouds over my grandparent's South Carolina farm.
David Locke
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May The Force Be With You! - Forcing Branches
Force! Anyone, even a black thumb can force branches into spectacular blooms and it couldn't be easier.
David Locke
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Headlights and Horticulture: Great Gardens of the World- Monticello
What so many visitors neglect is that Monticello is one of the great gardens of the world.
David Locke
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The Eve of a New Year - Garden Journal 12/31/19
2019 has been a very eventful year for my family and a seminal year of change.
David Locke
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Fa la la la Foraging: Garden Journal 12/24/19
y eldest and I walked into the woods a few feet from our back yard and I began to show him the bounty of winter woods.
David Locke
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Easy Inexpensive Cheer- Bows on Chandeliers
Need a quick and inexpensive decoration to make your home festive this Christmas? Try trying three bows on the top of any chandelier. They will look like one huge bow. I buy spools of ribbon at Sams. This gives you a big pop for a small hit to the wallet. This technique can be used for just about any size or shape light fixture and is a great way to spread your holiday colors and theme around the house. Use a floral wire or twist tie to affix the bows in a triangular arrangem
David Locke
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Caring for Live Trees in Six Easy Steps
Here is a quick list of how you can keep your tree fresh and clean all season long.
David Locke
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Elf on the Shelf Confessions
So, I have to make a confession here... we don’t do Elf on the Shelf in our home. Why?
David Locke
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The Most Awesome Pie Crust Ever! Perfect Pate Brisee
Pate means "dough" and "brisee" means "broken" in French, alluding to the crumbling nature of the dough.
David Locke
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The TOP 10 Plants to Fall for this Autumn
When you imbibe in the majesty of the foliage and flowers of the fall this year, dream of next year's garden and this year's goes to sleep.
David Locke
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Giardino Guisti - Sealing Our Love in a Labyrinth
Legend says two lovers that find each other in the labyrinth are destined to stay together.
David Locke
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David's Famous Baked Apples
Featuring an overload of butter, sugar and cinnamon, how could they not be amazing?
David Locke
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Oh Onions, Oh How I Love Thee!
Onions, I cry for you! Literally, is any vegetable more the Holy Grail of culinary arts?
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