Container gardening, dessert gardens and how to decorate with garden antiques have been favorite gardening topics on the blog!
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A Quick Thank You
Before I get started with the review, I’d like to take the thyme to thank all of you for following me on my journey!
Perhaps you found my blog via a blog hop, a link party, a Google search or via Hometalk. Regardless of how you started following me, I am so glad you are here! My name is Kimberly and I have a passion for flowers (a former florist) and flour (a former pizzeria owner) and many things in between! Especially rusty and chippy items!
Instead of a traditional top ten review to end the year, I thought I would figure out which topics you found the most intriguing this past year. I didn’t really plan it this way but it worked out to reflect my tag line of “flowers to flour and many things in between”!
Earlier this week we started out by looking back at the “flour” or favorite recipes and food related blog posts for the year. If you missed it, you can find it here: Favorite Recipes
Next, I did a review of the “many things in between” related posts. The most popular posts in that area turned out to include decluttering various areas of your home, decorating dough bowls (big surprise, I know) and how to use all those mason jars! You can find out which posts made the list here:A Look Back; Your Favorite Posts!
Today, I am looking back at the popular posts that are related to the “flower” side of things! How I ended up falling in love with gardening and flower design is kind of a funny story. I really disliked being outside and getting dirty as a child. My Mom always forced me to help in the garden. Oh how I hated planting onion sets! To find out how I eventually developed a passion for flowers, please visit this post: Sprout/ Grow/ Bloom ; My Journey
Let’s grab a cup of hot herbal tea and take a stroll down the garden path!
Fan Favorite Garden Related Blog Posts
#1 Let’s Refresh Your Porch Planters for the Holidays
Whether you call them patio pots, porch planters or combo pots, your outdoor planters are probably ready to be refreshed for the Holiday season. This post is not only one of my most popular blog posts, it is my most read post on Hometalk. Are you familiar with Hometalk? It is a great website filled with a variety of DIY tutorials. If you are looking for information on how to do a craft or other project, you can probably find out how to do it by visiting Hometalk.
Let’s Refresh Your Porch Planters for the Holidays
#2 Red & White European Dish Garden for Spring
This combination of red & white flowers can be used almost year-round. Almost everyone was curious about the terra cotta pot with the wrought iron candle holder.
I purchased this container years ago at a specialty store. Since I couldn’t fit anything like it on the market today, I came up with a dupe.
I used a 10-inch terra cotta bulb pan and a gazing globe stand. The candle holders are Amish made. I included the links at the bottom of this post.
Red & White European Dish Garden For Spring
#3 How To Divide Dianthus
Dianthus are also known as “Pinks”, The name “Pinks” comes not from its color but from the frilly edges that look like they have been cut with pinking shears! Dianthus is a very resilient plant. Would you like to learn how to divide a dianthus plant? It is very easy! Just click on the link below the photo!
How to Divide Dianthus (Carnations)
4.How to Decorate with Antique Garden Tools & Accessories
I love to work vintage and antique items into my displays, even in my garden! Antique garden tools & accessories such as urns and gazing globes can help add interest to your garden landscape! This old grindstone belonged to my Mom. It makes a great conversation piece in our Florida landscape!
5. Summerthyme Garden Bedding Plant Ideas
Bedding plants are so versatile. They can be grown right in the soil in a flower bed, a window box, a hanging basket or a combo pot. Geraniums, salvia, dusty miller and dianthus are some of my very favorite bedding plants!
Summerthyme Garden Bedding Plant Ideas
6. Proven Winners Diamond Frost
Diamond Frost or Diamond Snow! This white airy plant looks so much like baby’s breath. It really is one of my very favorite plants. I am not surprised that my readers found the topic interesting as well!
7.How to Grow Pansies in A Pot
These adorable flowers are one of the first flowers to bloom in the Spring! Are you curious about how to grow pansies in a pot? Enough of you must have been! This post came in at #7 on the Most Popular Gardening Posts chart!
I just love how each of the flowers has its own personality! Pansies were my Mom’s favorite bedding plant.
8. Yellow Rose European Dish Garden to Brighten Your Day!
Another of my Mom’s favorite flowers were yellow roses. This sweet dish garden is so easy to put together! It would make a great Galentine’s Day gift if you are already looking forward to Valentine’s Day!
Yellow Rose European Dish Garden to Brighten Your Day!
9. Add Interest to Your Garden with Hanging Solar Lanterns
These hanging solar lights look so pretty flanking a few of my garden antiques! This particular style will also stand up on its own so it is very versatile!
Add Interest to Your Garden with Hanging Solar Lanterns
10, Garden of Tasty Delights ; Intro to Dessert Herbs
I took my love of desserts and herbs and combined them into the concept of a Dessert Garden…. sort of like “Kim Style” for the garden!
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Garden of Tasty Delights ; Intro to Dessert Herbs
I have been talking about it for several years. In 2023, I plan to finally write another cookbook. My first one, pictured above, was really just a cookbooklet. I can’t wait to share more details about the new book with all of you!
Happy New Year, everyone!
A Few Shopping Links:
10-inch terra cotta bulb pan
gazing globe stand for a dupe of the wrought iron stand
while I haven’t actually used these, I am intrigued by them. they are hand made in the USA
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Your garden posts are a favorite.
.I love Pansies
Happy New Year!
Thank you so much, Cindy! Happy New Year!!