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Your Outdoor Space: Make your garden an extension of your home

When it comes to your home, you want to ensure that you make use of as much space as possible. After all, every inch of your home has some form of purpose, doesn’t it? Your bedrooms are there to sleep and relax in. Your kitchen is seen as the hub of the home. Your bathroom is a multifunctional space, and the living spaces can have varied uses. But your garden and outdoor space?

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9 Stunning Drought Resistant Plants to Include in Your Landscape

2 Comments / Gardening / By Deborah

Have you ever struggled in your garden during the hot seasons? Struggle no more! These drought resistant plants withstand the worst heat.

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Top 10 Ways To Make The Most Of Your Backyard Space

DIY Projects / By Deborah

Backyard space is also one of the best places in your home. If you have backyard space and want to give it a beautiful look then this article is for you. No matter whether your backyard space is big or small, it matters how we make it worthwhile by taking care of big or small

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Top 7 Garden Trends for 2018 (And How They Add Value)

Gardening / By Deborah

Are you a seasoned gardener? Or more of a beginner wanting to venture into the world of flora and fauna this new year? Maybe you’re neither a veteran nor a novice, but someone who has been able to cultivate a satisfactory level of gardening skills and experience? Whichever category you fall into, before you get down and dirty in your gardens, it’s best to check out the top 7 garden trends for 2018.

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10 Best Hose Reel Models on the Market Today

Publisher's Picks Product Guides / By Deborah

Don’t let buying a hose reel put you into a kink! While there are so many options available online today, we will give you a close up look at some of the best buys on this product out there. Arming yourself with good information before you spend your money is always a wise idea. That

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8 Must Have Gardening Tools For Beginning Gardeners

Gardening / By Deborah

Don’t go overboard with purchasing gardening tools. After all, if you’re buying them for the first time, you need to get an initial set of tools before moving on with anything advanced as a beginner.

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5 Essential Jobs To Get Your Yard Ready For Winter

DIY Projects / By Deborah

After a long, hot summer followed by a long, hot fall, it’s finally begun to cool down here in the coastal region of North Carolina. This is the time of year that I love. There’s a cool nip in the air, yet it isn’t freezing cold. It’s the perfect time to get out in the yard. This is the perfect time to tackle these 5 essential jobs to get your yard ready for winter.

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Winter Gardening: 7 Excellent Plants to Grow in a Greenhouse

Gardening / By Deborah

If you’re a green-fingered garden lover, winter can be a hard time for you. But you don’t just have to gaze longingly at your seeds and pictures of blooming plants online. There are a few hardy fruits and vegetables that can be sown in greenhouses throughout the colder months. Growth can be slow for some, and others may be ready to harvest in spring, but these seven plants will keep you busy when there’s frost on the ground.

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4 Colorful Flowers for Your Garden or Patio This Fall

Gardening / By Peculiar

Are you ready for colorful fall flowers? Recently, we talked about tasty and healthy vegetables you can plant in your garden this approaching fall. Today, we focus on the flowers best suited to the autumn season. The fall season is usually vibrant, characterized by lots of beautiful colors and an enjoyable ambiance. Whether you’re a

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9 DIY Ideas for Autumn Patio Decor

DIY Projects / By Peculiar

Every season demands its own special decoration to highlight or emphasize its inherent characteristics. Autumn is no different and today we are going to check out 9 DIY ideas for decorating your patio this fall. A classic fall decoration combo is the pumpkin and mums duo. You know fall (and Halloween) is around the corner

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6 Vegetables to Plant in Your Fall Garden

Gardening / By Peculiar

Autumn is close. Only a little time before winter hits. So before that happens, here are 6 vegetables you can plant before the first drop of snow falls.

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6 Ways to Upcycle an Old Chair

Upcycling / By Peculiar

Continuing with our upcycling trend, we’d be looking at 6 ways to upcycle an old chair. For those of us who are still not sure of the difference between recycling and upcycling, we had a post solely focused on that last week. Do check it out. It’s fun and educating! Upcycling simply means transforming or

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Garden Ideas for Kids

Family / By Peculiar

You might be a parent or guardian seeking to develop the gardening skills of your child or ward. If so, here are 6 awesome garden ideas for kids you would definitely fall in love with. Building your child’s gardening skills comes with a lot of perks and nary a downside. It provides recreation and fun,

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Give Your Patio a Different Look in Just One Weekend

DIY Projects / By Peculiar

Don’t you wish you have a lot of time to spend on patio makeovers? Well, not to worry! Here are ways to make it over in just one weekend!

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5 Surprising Reasons to Attract Bats to Your Yard (and How!)

Birds, Bees, Butterflies / By Peculiar

Most of you probably clicked on this article just to be sure you read the title correctly and your eyes were not playing tricks on you. Well, thanks for clicking and yes, today we are going to find out to turn our yards into a bat-hive. “Why on earth would I want bats in my

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5 Annuals That Just Love the Sun!

Gardening / By Peculiar

A while ago, I talked about plants that preferred a cool shade to the blazing heat of the sun’s rays. For those worried about the bare shaded spots in their gardens, that article sure did provide one or two ideas. Today, however, we are having the opposite: plants that thrive in sunlight. When I say

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Fun Themes for a Summer Cookout

Home / By Peculiar

Yippee!!! Summer is finally here. Fine, summer would soon be here, give or take a couple of weeks. Everyone is excited and looking forward to sunny skies and cool breezes: a perfect atmosphere for cookouts. Almost everyone reading this post is either planning to host or attend a summer cookout during this period. If you

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10 Beautiful Plants That Repel Mosquitoes (so annoying!)

Herbal and Natural Wellness / By Peculiar

Tired of the whining and buzzing of pesky mosquitoes? Those bloodsuckers can’t stand the smell of these plants that repel mosquitoes.

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5 Common Garden Plants That Are Poison to Your Pets

Pets / By Peculiar

Keep your pet safe from poison. Your garden is fraught with hazards to your dog or cat. Learn the common plants that are poisonous to them.

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5 Unique and Easy DIY Vertical Gardening Ideas for Your Small Patio

Gardening / By Peculiar

Gardening in a small apartment might seem impossible and downright disheartening for those of us who love getting our hands dirty and seeing nature bloom around us. However, there have been recent ideas, techniques, and suggestions from gardeners and agricultural experts on various ways to garden in a small space, with vertical gardening being the

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How To Garden: 10 Things You Can Learn From Your Seed Packet

Gardening / By Deborah

If you want to learn how to garden, you must first learn how to read a seed packet. Your seed packet contains 10 vital bits of valuable info which will provide you with guidance. This information will be a key to successful gardening! About two weeks ago, I wrote a post called Vegetable Gardening for

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Your Outdoor Space: Make your garden an extension of your home

9 Stunning Drought Resistant Plants to Include in Your Landscape

Top 10 Ways To Make The Most Of Your Backyard Space

Top 7 Garden Trends for 2018 (And How They Add Value)

10 Best Hose Reel Models on the Market Today

8 Must Have Gardening Tools For Beginning Gardeners

5 Essential Jobs To Get Your Yard Ready For Winter

Winter Gardening: 7 Excellent Plants to Grow in a Greenhouse

4 Colorful Flowers for Your Garden or Patio This Fall

9 DIY Ideas for Autumn Patio Decor

6 Vegetables to Plant in Your Fall Garden

6 Ways to Upcycle an Old Chair

Garden Ideas for Kids

Give Your Patio a Different Look in Just One Weekend

5 Surprising Reasons to Attract Bats to Your Yard (and How!)

5 Annuals That Just Love the Sun!

Fun Themes for a Summer Cookout

10 Beautiful Plants That Repel Mosquitoes (so annoying!)

5 Common Garden Plants That Are Poison to Your Pets

5 Unique and Easy DIY Vertical Gardening Ideas for Your Small Patio

How To Garden: 10 Things You Can Learn From Your Seed Packet

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