I know -- it's hot. (Well it is here, and from the colors on the NOAA weather map, I'd say you might be toasty, too.) But I'm dreaming up projects -- a mini-bog garden, another trash-to-treasure garden gate -- and also trying to get ready for my next open day on August 17. Like this:
magical mini-bogs of carnivores (and book giveaway!) A wooden window box lined with plastic and filled with sundews and pitcher plants will attract more attention than one of geraniums, writes Peter D'Amato in "The Savage Garden," the fascinating bible of carnivorous plants, just out in an updated 15th-anniversary edition. Ready to try a mini-bog in a pot or the ground, or a hanging basket of tropical pitcher plants indoors -- and also win the book? Start here. 
meet the beekman boys at my aug. 17 garden open I remember sitting in our skyscraper-high offices at Martha Stewart, dreaming out loud together about the "someday" of rural living. Well, I made it out of the city, and so did Brent Ridge -- my former colleague, and half of "The Amazing Race"-winning duo the Fabulous Beekman Boys. He and Josh Kilmer-Purcell are coming to my August 17 Garden Conservancy Open Day, to do a talk about "The Heirloom Life" they live. There's a giant plant sale, too. Want to join us? 
upcycling! new life for old junk, as a garden gate I didn't know a pintle from a gudgeon, but I knew I had dragged home some rusty, clunky iron tag-sale finds over the years that I'd grown tired of moving around the garage ever since. And so were born my trash-to-treasure style garden gates, thanks to a crafty friend who knows his hinge parts and a thing or two more. Here is how. |
