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One of the easiest plants that you can grow in an outside or inside garden is a succulent (they’re from the cactus family). One variety of succulents that I like to grow are often called Chicks and Hens, Cats and Kittens, Rooster and Hens, etc. …
I love outdoor gardening and I admit, I enjoy growing indoor houseplants too! While I don’t consider myself to having a “green thumb”, I have learned several tricks over the years to keep my indoor plants healthy and happy. Here’s some of the tips and …
I love to spend time outdoors and one of the things I enjoy when I’m outside is gardening! I enjoy working on my flower beds, veggie garden and anything that has to do with adding beauty to our landscaping and yard. We’ve owned our home for 6 years now and have been working on various landscaping projects every year.
My personal preference is a coastal and beach style, and I’m always adding new things when I find them. For example, I recently went shopping at our local The Christmas Tree & More store and found some great bargains on outdoor decor. I’m a frugal shopper, and I won’t pay full price, so it’s got to be on sale & a great deal before I buy it!
On this particular shopping trip I found faux stained glass hanging solar lanterns with beautiful lighthouse designs on them and just had to have them! These beauties were on sale for $9.99 each and I picked up three of them. I like that they’re made out of metal and have glass panels. They’re not cheesy-plastic!
Last Fall my beloved mother-in-law passed away from cancer and she collected garden gnomes. I’ve been wanting one in a beach theme for my little memorial garden and was having a hard time finding one in that particular theme. Until now. I was able to pick up this beach-theme’d garden gnome for $6.99. I think he’s adorable!
Finally, I found this Mermaid solar statue that is about 14″ tall and the “faux pearl” in her seashell light’s up at night…thanks to it being solar powered. I admit, I did pay more for her than what I would of liked, but still…at $14.99 I bought her!
What makes this “frugal hunt” even better is that I had printed out a $10.00 off $50.00 purchase from online and redeemed my coupon at the store. So, in addition to those stated prices above…I got $10.00 off my total purchase. Yippee!
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The Christmas Tree Store is a department store and they’re located in several different states. I’ve got one that is about 10 minutes from my home and I try to get there about 6 times a year to look for goodies. I was pleasantly surprised to find a slew of beach & coastal items in their store for summer, so I just had to snag a few pieces to add to my garden and yard.
Have you ever shopped at The Christmas Tree store? If so, what are some of your favorite things to buy?
We’re finally into the month of May and we’re starting the gardening season here in the northeast. Every week from May through September (hopefully) we’ll be featuring at least one gardening post every week! Some of our features will be gardening articles, growing tips, garden-product …
Back in late April I went to the flea market and found this beautiful vintage metal watering can and just had to have it. What really surprised me is that the seller only wanted $3.00 for it and trust me, that was a BARGAIN PRICE, …
Three weeks ago I stopped into a local Family Dollar Store that was going out of business. Everything in the store was 10% to 50% off on the day that I was there. While browsing around there store, I found these metal sand buckets with metal shovels on sale for $4.00 each and then I got 50% off, bringing the price down to $2.00 each. Wow, what a deal! I knew as soon as I saw them that they would make the perfect garden and flower planters!
Since I decorate in a beach and coastal theme, I decided to decorate my metal sand pail with some seashells and wordage. I used a white chalk marker and hand wrote the word Shells on one side and the word Beach on the other side.
Using E-6000 Adhesive Glue, I randomly glued on a few scalloped seashells that I already had on hand and left it dry overnight to allow the glue to set.
My sand pail came with a non-removable white plastic liner. You’ll want to add about 3″ of gravel into the bottom and then place your top soil on top. This will help with water drainage and keep the roots from your plants from rotting. If your bucket is large enough, you may be able to set a garden center planter right down inside the pail and avoid adding the gravel altogether, that’s entirely up to you.
You can plant all kinds of things into these metal sand pails and for the one that I’m featuring today, I placed some Cats & Kittens (Chicks & Hens) into it which look really nice. These are succulents and are very easy to grow. Mine come back year after year and multiply all of the time! A great choice for beginner gardeners!
You can grow succulents indoors or out, or a combination of both! Some of my potted ones I’ll bring indoors during the winter season and they do just fine. The one’s that are planted directly in my flower beds…come back year, after year.
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Ten years ago my husband bought me a gorgeous birdbath and water fountain combo which I absolutely LOVED. The bowl portion of the bird bath is done in a large seashell shape and the top had floating ball with water fountain. When it was new, …
Two years ago we decided to put a pool into our small backyard and since that time, we don’t regret it. With that said, we did have to make the decision to give up some of our gardening space to accommodate it. Even though we …