Category Archives: Growing

Fill. Plant. Grow!

When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. 

~Minnie Aumonier

Despite the frigid Michigan zone 5b temperatures, gardening lives on 365 days a year in my world even when I am indoors!

Greeted with a cold gush of air in the dead of winter, can you imagine how delighted I was to discover The Little Acre™ ?!?

Here’s what I love about The Little Acre™:  It is truly so simple and convenient to set up.  It has multiple uses and appeals to a very large audience!  So perfectly designed to engage and encourage growing!

Follow these simple steps to start gardening:

1. Unfold the bag, set it in a sunny place, fill it with 10-11 cubic feet of  soil/compost combo

2. Plant your favorite veggies, herbs, berries and flowers – seeds or plants

3. Water!

Yep, it’s that easy.  For me, it is perfect for growing herbs!  Until spring arrives and warmer temperatures, I will patiently wait and develop my planting strategies!

 May all your gardens grow,

 

Dig, Plant, Mark, Grow!

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brilliant!  Imagine purchasing organic seeds packaged in snazzy bold colors with corresponding wooden spikes identifying its contents!  An innovative student at Vancouver Island University designed these very COOL plant markers that scream TURN-KEY operation!  I love how growing for home gardeners keeps getting easier and easier!

May all your gardens grow,

Hot Ornamental Picks this Season!

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy,
and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs,
is more elastic, more immortal – that is your success.
All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
~Henry David Thoreau

Here’s a few of our hot picks for landscapes and gardens this season.

Check back often as we photograph how we used them to create color, texture and interest!
Little Lime™ Hydrangea
Arctic Sun ™ Dogwood
Black Beauty™ Elderberry
Brandywine™ Viburnum
Coppertina™ Ninebark
Fine Line® Buckthorn
Black Lace™ Elderberry
Incrediball™ Hydrangea
Midnight Wine™ Weigela
Invincibelle®Spirit Hydrangea
Summer Wine® Ninebark
My Monet™ Weigela
Little Henry® Sweetspire
Arctic Fire™ Dogwood
Bloomerang™ Lilac
May all your gardens grow!

*Photos by Proven Winners®