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    My Top Ten Gardening Ideas For The Year

    Published by Pam Kessler | 491 words. · About 3 minutes to read this article. - 4 Comments

    It's always fun when I get to show you My Top Ten Gardening Ideas For The Year. I think it's been a good year in the dirt here!

    So, drum roll please . . .

    Where are the drums, people?

    Top 10 gardening ideas for the year including Gardening DIY Projects, plant inspiration and porch decor.


    My Top 10 Gardening Ideas For The Year

    I risked life and limb to get up close and personal with poison ivy for you this year. I showed you how to identify it and how to prevent getting it. Good stuff, if I may say so myself, and my most viewed gardening post of the year.

    How to identify poison ivy and ways to help prevent getting a rash from it.
    How To Avoid Poison Ivy

    Since I blog a lot about vintage and gardening, I combined those two things in my post about 6 plants that I consider to be vintage garden plants. You know, like you'd find in your grandma's garden. If your grandma was cool and hip like me.

    Clio Magenta Cleome Spiderflower and other flowers that you might have found in your grandma's flower garden
    Vintage Flowers From Your Grandma's Garden

    One of the vintage flowers I showed you in that post was plumbago. I thought it was pretty enough to deserve its own post.

    Plumbago - one of the stars of the summer garden. A perennial down South, an annual up North. From houseofhawthornes.com
    Plumbago Is Not A Pain

    Peonies are my absolute, hands down, favorite flower (sorry, plumbago) and it was fun to pair them with my every increasing collection of chemistry flasks this year.

    Pretty peonies arranged in chemistry flasks
    Peonies And Chemistry Flasks

    In May, I showed you how I decided what plants to use in my planter box on the back porch (Coral Bells, Supertunia and Canna) and then I came back a month later to show you what it looked like when they had a chance to spread their wings and fill out the planter.

    Summer porch planter with Tropical Rose Canna, Pretty Much Picasso Supertunia and Harvest Burgundy Coral Bells
    Summer Planter Updated

    And then comes my porch posts.

    My porch posts ALWAYS are some of my most viewed posts of the year, regardless of category. People like porches, I guess.

    This spring I decided to be colorful on the porch. After the winter we had (remember the Polar Vortex?), I needed a bit of color in my life.

    Vintage spring front porch decor
    Colorful Spring Front Porch

    My summer porch was where I debuted my Pleasure Chest (which oddly isn't in this photo, but I thought the pink lemonade shouted SUMMER better).

    A fun summer porch with a bit of vintage decor
    It's Summertime And The Livin' Is Easy

    The fall porch sort of had a rustic, owl, farmhouse theme to it.

    Eclectic Vintage Farmhouse Rustic Fall Porch via houseofhawthornes.com
    Eclectic Vintage Farmhouse Porch

    My winter front porch, where I spelled picnicking wrong (forgot the K) and am mortally embarrassed but don't know how to change the title now!

    Fun holiday front porch ideas are shown, including chalk painted skis, vintage Thermoses and plaid decor for Christmas. And most of the items were found at thrift stores and estate sales.
    Holiday Front Porch For The Picnicing Ski Bums

    And just so you don't think porch decorating is all wine and roses, I wrote about how I actually go about decorating my porch in this popular post.

    How To Decorate Your Porch In 39 Easy Steps

    You know, where I discuss boobs and spider eggs. Not in any particular order, but oddly enough they are related.

    Oh, and don't forget to check out My Top Ten DIY And Craft Ideas For The Year when you have a second.

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    1. TARYTERRE

      December 30, 2014 at 9:42 am

      Enjoyed the review. My favorite are the porch scenes. Enjoy the movie. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

      Reply
    2. [email protected]

      December 30, 2014 at 7:33 pm

      Great review, I enjoyed all of them. The porch scenes are great - you did a terrific job.
      Happy New Year.
      Mary

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    3. monkey

      December 30, 2014 at 9:40 pm

      i love the flowers,loved the yellow table loved the little chair with plant,loved the whole owl porch and love the skis so i can't pick a fav happy new year xx

      Reply
    4. [email protected] Salvaged Treasures

      January 04, 2015 at 6:07 pm

      It's always hard to pick a favorite. Love them all, but your colorful spring porch is sure looking cheerful. Good to know about the poison ivy. We have poison oak out here, but just looking at it makes me itch. Happy New Year to you.

      Reply

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