The world’s largest chandelier
Chandeliers have always made a room significant, with sparkling crystals and dazzling light displays that illuminate the night. They can also be quite grand and important in the antique and antiquities world, not only for their crystal and priceless components, but...
Stay on top of your growing lawn
Beginning with this month, try to make an effort to mow the lawn often enough so you never have to cut off more than a third of the grass in order to maintain the recommended height. Always keep your mower blades sharpened. WEEK ONE • Try to get all perennial plants...
Threadleaf Bluestar a May icon
Amsonia hubrichtii or Threadleaf Bluestar is a wonderful native herbaceous plant that has graceful billowing branches covered with very fine soft foliage and in May it produces beautiful sky blue star-shaped flowers that grow in clusters at the tips of each branch....
Have a plan with spring cleaning
Is there anything better than coming home after a long day to a sparkling clean house? Even with a far less complicated schedule thanks to the pandemic, I still find that there are not enough hours in the day to really devote (or want to devote, frankly) to getting my...
Delicious, No-Fuss Desserts
Gender reveal
Help out those hummingbirds … naturally
One of the sweetest visual treats of spring is viewing those visiting bejeweled beauties, hummingbirds. To keep the seasonal spectacle going, people often double down in their feeding efforts, dutifully purchasing or making syrup, filling, then rigorously cleaning...
A plan to can is a plan for the future
There’s no need to go into detail that 2020 was strange, but one good thing that may have come out of it is more downtime and many people looking to grow and preserve their own food. The process offers a way to cut grocery costs and boost the body with more healthy...
It’s just the way the worm turns
Not all worms are created equal. Gardeners typically consider worms “the best thing you can do for your soils.” But that is not true, asserts Ryan Hueffmeier, director of the Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota. He was the speaker in a recent Zoom...
When a nest can become a pest
A popular and pesky spot that birds choose to nest, such as this mother blackbird and her chicks, are the corners of a porch or garage roof. There’s something so fascinating about finding a bird’s nest as a child. A little home crafted by birds using bits of nature to...
