Summer Gardening Finds

Thyme and Big Lambs Ear in Raised Gardening Beds in Texas Landscape Design
Thyme, perennial herb great for raised beds.

No Time?  Try These Prefabricated Raised Gardening Beds


These Gadgets Will Help

If you use concrete blocks there will be some PH leaching.  Use a tester to keep this in check.  I use soaker hoses on a timer during the hot summer times as well.  In the top garden layer I throw in water retention pellets and put a scoop of Osmocte in with the plants.  Then I am good for another summer of gardening.

Japanese Maple that Grows Shrub Height

Crimson lace leaf Japanese Maple. This is clearly a young Japanese Maple but it is beautiful.

Crimson lace leaf Japanese Maple. These come in three heights!

Crape Myrtle that Grows Shrub Height

Cherry Razzle Dazzle Crape Myrtles as Shrubs

Cherry Razzle Dazzle Crape Myrtles as Shrubs

 Flower Pots for the Front Door

Ready for summer with a classic combination of Geraniums, red and orange, and gray Dusty Miller

Ready for summer with a classic combination of Geraniums, red and orange, Candy Tuft and gray Dusty Miller

Blue flower pot for the front door.

Blue flower pot for the front door.

 

 Garden Sensor, hmmmm?

Mixed reviews on this product.  It is solar energy powered.  It measures temperature, soil moisture, and light measurements prove.  Not something I would buy or want but for some folks this might be just the thing!  Edyn Wi-Fi Garden Sensor

EDYN-Wi-Fi-Garden-Sensor

Tall Flower Pots for Shrubs

Tall flower pots great containers for shrubs allowing deep roots.

Tall flower pots great containers for shrubs allowing deep roots.

Self watering tall flower pots

Self watering tall flower pots

 These Planters are Self Watering


Turn Your Bird Bath into a Solar Fountain


Birdbath becomes a solar fountain

Birdbath becomes a solar fountain

Make Flower Pots Self Watering

Potted Rosemary! Perennial that returns.

Potted Rosemary! Perennial that returns.

Container Gardening in Dallas Landscape Design

Shallow containers extremely popular. Combine with water retaining crystals and self watering systems.

Self watering systems for containers make these worry free.

A Texas Flower Pot!

 Key Hole Garden

The opportunity to manage moisture and soil enrichment with Keyhole gardening.

The opportunity to manage moisture and soil enrichment with Keyhole gardening.

Concrete raised gardening beds can leach out PH from your soil. Learn how to address that issue.

Concrete raised gardening beds can leach out PH from your soil. Learn how to address that issue.

 

 Arboretum Season Pass or Tickets for Two

Mother's Day Present Tickets for Two or Season Pass Local Arboretum

Mother’s Day Present Tickets for Two or Season Pass Local Arboretum

Season Passes at Arboretums are often reciprocal to more than 200 botanical gardens and arboretums worldwide | Find participating organizations .

A Good House Cleaning

When you garden often the house gets over looked.  Treat yourself or someone you love to something they will love, a clean house!

If You Love It:  PIN IT!

Gardening Is a Lifestyle!

Gardening Is a Lifestyle!