Outdoor Spice

The Denver Botanic Garden: Steal These Ideas 

I visited this spectacular garden during my first trip to Colorado a few years ago. Like most Botanic Gardens, it features a huge array of plants in many themed gardens. Rose garden, cactus garden, and a slew of others. Home gardeners like us strolled around in a happy trance wearing sun hats and naming plants we knew and looking for the name tags of the ones we didn't. I always keep an eye out for plants and ideas to use in my own garden. Here are two:

Blooming ground cover spilling out of tipped pots.

If you don't happen to have this kind of space, just one sunken pot with flowers would look good, too. It's also a nice way to use pretty pots you may have that are broken. Just sink the broken side into the ground.

    
 A lattice "wall" with a window into a garden room. Nice view!

Snowy Gardens

 Check out these two wildly different snow-dusted gardens. 

Chickens chatting and having chicken tea in the garden.

[source: guardian.co.uk]

A garden at Versailles. The chickens would love this!
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Fall Fairy House

Add some fun Fall spice to your garden and help the kids build a whimsical fairy house from fallen pinecones, bark, and twigs. 

Construct it at the bottom of a tree or tucked into a hidden spot in your yard or flower beds for visitors to discover. 

Have a hot drink when you're done!


[Credits: Top image: FamilyFun magazine parents.com/familyfun-magazine/. Bottom: twigandtoadstool.blogspot.com

Succulent Wall Panel

Take your garden vertical!


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