Category: Frugalista
Ken-Do Attitude
This is hardly the time to stop planting
The garden may be slowing down, but there’s still plenty of activities to do and things to plant. Spring flowering bulbs, such as alliums, crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and tulips can still be planted through November. Remember...
Sweet Simplicity
Give more joy, not more stuff
November has arrived, and somehow the holiday season is already knocking at our doors! Before we know it, we’ll be making lists, checking them twice, and trying to remember where we hid the gifts we bought back in September. I...
Gardening Tips
Northwind a four-season sight for landscaping
Panicum virgatum Northwind is a cultivar of switch grass, a native, clump-forming perennial ornamental grass that thrives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. As a warm-season grass, it grows new foliage from its roots each spring as...
Antique Discovery
The lost art of the formal dining room service
(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) Thanksgiving is coming soon, and during this time period, more formal dishes might come out of the pantry and grace...
