Image via Today’s Home. Type in “outdoor kitchens” into a search engine, and you’ll be inundated with about 700,000 images. 90% of which include an island built out of flagstone that is covered by a pergola. While I appreciate that type…

{image: Serralunga} Pathways are an oft neglected part of outdoor living, but they are the fastest way to add interest, elegance, and depth to an outdoor living space. Pathways are the first step to providing privacy and separation from one…

{image: Dwell magazine} Outdoor dining is one of those sensory pleasures that, when done correctly, can have you sitting for hours after the food has been consumed, while drinks are sipped and conversations wander. Restaurants with patios cater to this,…

{image: FAB Architecture} Outdoor spaces provide an area to talk, read, think, rest, enjoy nature, and be part of a community. It’s a heady combination, and I can find myself spending hours in areas where I can hear birds and…

A little taste of what’s coming up next week. Have a great weekend y’all!

{image via Haskell Tech} While researching gardening layouts, I collected resources to share. Below you will find likes to books, magazines, blogs, and suppliers that will help you research, design, and start a beautiful garden. I’ve also included a few…

This post is written by my partner-in-crime, Frank. During the day, he’s the owner of D2L Studios, a graphic designer, and social media manager. By night, he’s a worm loving amateur gardener. I asked him to write about his obsession…

via One Kings Lane.

Composting is one of those side habits of gardening that is rising in popularity. Urban farmers are popping up everywhere, and compost piles are part of this new culture. I’ll be honest. I’m not a dig in the dirt willingly…

Traditional English Greenhouse via Schemata Workshop. What no one tells you about gardening is that it’s a never ending hobby. One day you buy a little basil plant for $3, and the next you’re sourcing greenhouse suppliers for that citrus…

Cambo Tulip Festival via Largo Baywatch. Creating a cutting garden can seem intimidating, but like all gardening, planning will prevent you from wasting valuable resources like space, time, and money. Here’s a simple plan for creating a cutting garden: Research….

Memphis Cutting Garden Cutting gardens are one of the most inspiring and useful of gardens. Rows of tulips, hyacinth and gladiolas provide beauty in large numbers. When they’re cut and arranged, they provide an indoor garden. These types of gardens…

Via Duffy’s in Italy. Some of my favorite memories involve citrus trees: walking to pick tangerines with my grandmother, shaking the lemon tree in Nicaragua to make the ripe fruit fall, using oranges as basketball. A result of being a…

Am I the only one that has an incredibly hard time visualizing a finished garden project? If not, here are a few of my favorite kitchen garden plans. I especially love the five year plan, and the year round herb…

Herb and flower garden via Stenn Design. Long a staple of country gardens, edible gardens are gaining traction in urban areas. Vegetable, herb and fruit gardens are the most useful, and, as most items focused on efficiency and use, it’s…

Gardening in small spaces is one of my favorite hobbies. Mostly because the past ten years have involved at least ten different apartments and houses. Only two of those locations have had a yard. So, I’ve learned to keep a…

Informal is defined as “casual, not ceremonious, suited for everyday use” and that definition plays out perfectly in an informal garden. Instead of straight lines, axis designs, and strategic placement of hedges and trees, informal design utilizes undulating lines and mixes shapes,…

Gardening isn’t just the March theme, it’s one of my obsessions. At every place I’ve lived as an adult, I’ve tried to create something for outdoor living. Constraints on time, space, and money have limited my gardening output but not my…

Photo by Danny Oz. I originally started this post as a debate between formal and informal garden design, and after uploading over 30 images, I realized there really isn’t a debate to be had. Both formal and informal gardens are…

This winter has been one of the craziest, especially when compared to the previous winter. Instead of several days of flurries and snow, we have high 60′s temps and balmy springtime weather. It’s rained constantly, and we’ve already had tornado…

How delightful are these little garden studios from Ecospace Studios? In my humble opinion, extremely delightful. It’s my dream to one day have one of these studios in our backyard, wherever that yard may be. A little tiny office, separate from…

The obsession with flowers grows (pun intended). This one found on the path to Indian Rocks Beach.

Irish Marigolds  

Heather? I have no clue. Spirea (thanks Pam!), and it’s gorgeous. Team members had to keep reminding me that the flowers weren’t for picking, just observing.  

Photography and styling by Delicooks. Painted cans and reused containers to make a pretty herb garden. The perfect way to step up the average herb garden.

{photography and styling by Stylizimio} One day I shall have a pretty little porch like this. One day.

Early summer flowers. A few minutes spent watering my garden each morning. My definition of peace.

The first fruits of our first garden. I felt like we needed to have a ceremony before eating them. So delicious.

Almost all of the 40 acre pasture is filled with these little yellow flowers. It’s like a sea of the most beautiful yellow carpet.

      On foggy mornings, the dew catches on the hundreds of spiderwebs that are scattered through the woods, making visible all the hard work that goes into building a web. It’s amazing to me how dense they look,…