Beyond the Garden Gate

06/16/2022

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11/05/2020

This is why your so called Christmas Cactus blooms other than Christmas!🧐🌲

10/24/2020

Hello, hate to throw out those beautiful fall mums? Here
is the easy solution to keeping them and having them add beautiful colors to your home next year and save money.
FLOWER TALK 101
Those beautiful garden mums you purchased for fall decoration?... they are perennials so they can be planted to come up every year BUT there are some steps you must follow:
Do not plant them this fall because their roots need time to get established or else they will winter kill. Leave them in their original pot for the winter but cut them off leaving around two inches above the pot. Place them in place where they will not freeze and water them a little ever couple of weeks to keep them slightly moist. In the spring, after any frost, plant them. Come fall they should bloom and be established to give you color around your home.

10/17/2020

Finally decorating for fall, better a little late than never. Hope you are loving the change of season with all the pumpkins, mum's, gourds and treasures of Autumn.🍁🎃🌻🌾🍂🍁

06/12/2020

The fabulous Gardenia with the most wonderful fragrance! Used in as a regal wedding flower in bride's bouquets along with stephanotis. It doesn't get any more elegant than this.

Take a long sniff . . . do you know what this is?

12/04/2019

A friend of mine does a room for Christmas at the Hayner Mansion in Troy every year and this year I did the peacock for the tree...I think the tree is beautiful!

12/01/2019

Ever make a burlap wreath and don't know how to decorate it. Here is one I made for a friend...she loved it.

11/18/2019

For all dog owners and those that may be getting a dog for Christmas, another memeber of your family!!

When I am asked what is the biggest problem I see in dog training today, it is the same problem I saw  fourteen years ago, and thirty years ago, it is the misunderstanding of time. It takes time to…

11/10/2019

Spray roses...beautiful!

Roses , tea or coffee for you on this beautiful afternoon

09/16/2019

Hi THIS IS ABOUT DECORATING. Decorating your front porch or fireplace. One rule is HIGH LEFT LOW RIGHT. That was a rule from design school. I see some doing high right and low left and saying it just doesn't look quite right. During those days of Hixson's School of Floral Design we went to sleep with it drummed in our heads HIGH LEFT LOW RIGHT.

09/08/2019

Favorite cantainer to use for fall is a pumpkin....just made one for a friend and the other one was an order. They make beauthiful centerpiecs in smaller pumpkins for a wedding or special occasions. Contact me here if you would like to place an order.

08/18/2019

Autumn is just around the corner, and I can't wait. Ready for pumpin spice!!