planting the espalier apple trees in terra cotta pots
Yesterday, I shared how we primed, painted, and installed the vintage-style trellises on our blank white wall of siding, and today, I want to share how I planted the espalier apple trees in large terra cotta pots and tied them to the trellises. When I mentioned putting them in pots on my Instagram stories, I […]
cedar vintage-style garden trellis reveal
Last week, my mom came out for the day to help me with some work in the garden along with priming and painting the vintage-style trellises. You can find the complete (and free) plan for the trellis we built HERE. When I first brought the lumber home to build the trellis, I wondered about priming […]
Lucketts Spring Market 2024
Friday morning, my mom and I set off early to hit the Lucketts Spring Market Early Bird day. I had scouted out some large terracotta pots for my espalier apple trees that were only available at the Winchester Home Depot, so we stopped there on the way to pick those up. I’ll share about them […]
DIY cedar garden obelisk
I was on a high from building the vintage-style trellises for the front of the house, so I decided to do more math and make a DIY cedar garden obelisk. I bought enough wood to make three trellises (two large and one small), but I decided to do something different on the wall where the […]
My Lucketts Spring Market 2024 Wish List
This Friday, my mom and I are heading back to the Lucketts Spring Market! It snuck up on me this year because I don’t have any huge items on my wishlist, but going to the Spring and Fall Markets is always a highlight. I get to spend quality time with my mom, rub shoulders with […]
gardening plan with a local nursery
Over the winter, I was already thinking about working on the front garden. It was going to be a massive project landscaping this wide, rambling, unsymmetrical house, but we were at a place in our 1970 home renovation where we could get started once Spring arrived. We had painted the siding and trim, removed the […]
large vintage-style garden trellis tutorial & free plans
As I shared last week (in THIS POST), I decided I was overcomplicating the trellis idea for the garage wall. I thought building one large trellis would be the way to go, but I realized two would balance out the windows on the other “wing” of the house and two trellises would be much easier […]
April 2024 Creative Retreat Takeaways
I’m so glad I was finally able to get away for a Creative Retreat last week. It’s been over four years since the last one, so it was way overdue! I had my first Creative Retreat in 2018 and it was a special experience. Other than blog conferences, I had never taken time away from […]