Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: garden

  • Tutorial: A mossy flower planter

        Every spring I think, “I’m going to take it easy on the flowers. I’m just going to do mostly perennials and only a few annuals…I don’t need to buy a ton of flowers….Oh who am I KIDDING!?”    And, so it begins. The flowers are now in the plant nurseries and my hands…

  • A Haunting Under Glass

       There is something so intriguing and beautiful about the little world within a world of terrariums. Inside there are lush and green landscapes, often with a little surprise inside, that makes them so fun to explore.     I had never build a terrarium until recently, with the help and artistic talent of my…

  • Tasha Tuesday: Autumn in the garden

    “Working in the garden in Autumn is delightful, with the clean smell of frost-bitten fern and witch hazel in the air and no insects to bother about. There are always great numbers of bulbs to be put in the ground– over two thousand this fall, counting the lillies.   The other day I heard the first…