Collections of sea shells
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) You might be walking down the beach this summer and stop to consider a shell that has just washed up from out of the surf at your feet. Shell collecting...
A month full of fireworks
Power Up Family Mealtimes
Hydrangeas offer splashes of color throughout Delmarva
Hydrangeas come in a wide variety of flowering shrubs that grow well on the Delmarva Peninsula, and some of them are native to the United States. H. macrophylla Perhaps the most familiar hydrangeas are the French or florist-type bigleaf hydrangeas, Hydrangea...
Stay cool with homemade popsicles
Does the ice cream truck rarely make it down your street? Fret not, pick up a set of inexpensive popsicle molds and get busy making your own treats — without the annoying music. With summer approaching, making popsicles can check a few things off the summer bucket...
The Sextant: A voyager’s navigator
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Sailors and sea-faring voyagers have always had to find ways to measure where they were on the globe at any given time. Through trial and error, many...
This month is coming up all roses
Welcome to June, which is National Rose and Perennial Flower Month. Roses are one of the most recognizable flowers in the world with more than 150 wild rose species and 30,000-plus cultivated varieties. Roses are organized into these different categories: • Hybrid...
Lanceleaf Coreopsis tolerant in summer
Lanceleaf Coreopsis is a lovely upright herbaceous native plant that thrives in full sun and moist but well drained soils. It is very tolerant of heat, humidity, drought, poor and or dry soils and deer are not likely to nibble either the leaves or flowers. Like a lot...
Cheers to summer living
Ahh, sweet summer time. We are finally entering what might just be my favorite season of all — summer time! I love the longer days, the flip-flops and the many visits to the pool and ice cream stand that my family gets to make each summer season. What I love even more...
