Subscriber Resources

I’m so glad you’re here and I’m tremendously grateful and over the moon that you have generously decided to support my work with a paid subscription.

In addition to weekly mailings, paid subscribers can access a (growing) library of resources including, projects, a roundup of my favorite paints and supplies, recipes, book recommendations, and more. It’s all here.

Mothering

My garden grew me into being a better mother.

Download a printable pdf at the link below.

Mothering

BROWN

Growth relies on substance and depth.

Read the entire essay and download a copy at the link below.

Brown

Love Apples

This recipe means the world to me and very likely, is special to cooks and their loved ones the world over. The original is from the inimitable Marcella Hazan and is readily found all over the internet. This is my take on what has become a way to serve up "love on a plate.”

Love Apples

Cultivating Amaryllis

Anticipating the first glorious blooms on an Amaryllis is, in my eyes, one of the best parts of winter.

Amaryllis

Citrus Salt

What do you get when you combine an edible rock with the essence of the sun?

Citrus salt

tap on Lanterns

Light the (Halloween) night and guide little trick or treaters with these tap-on caning jar lanterns made with easy-to-find hardware store materials.

Tap on lanterns

Gold

What a garden does in one year it takes the rest of us a lifetime to accomplish.

Read the entire essay and download a copy at the link below.

GOLD

Going to Seed

How to bank a bit of summer by collecting seed from the best and the brightest of this year’s crops.

going to seed

Herbes de Provence

A simple recipes for cultivating flavor using homegrown herbs.

herbes de Provence

Floral Confetti

Celebrate your own blue door days with this botanical confetti made up of heavenly hues.

floral confetti

Lavender honey

Capture the lavender days of summer with this easy lavender-and-honey infusion.

lavender honey

Look closely
with great heart

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Let’s talk about paint

I’m game for using just about any sort of paint to custom mix the colors I see in petals, leaves, shells, and numerous other bits and pieces from my garden.

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my paints 

Gratitude

(in no particular order)
A song of thanks for simple pleasures.

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Postcard

Pebble Mosaics

A limited palette of mostly white, smooth pebbles set within repurposed heat hoops subtly suggest the ridges of an oyster’s shell or the swirling movement of water.

Transport your garden to the beach — only without the property taxes!

Pebble Mosaics

A beautiful distraction

A garden makes room for our human impulse to organize while also offering us a means to comprehend wildness.

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A Beautiful Distraction

Wire plant support

In addition to protect your sweet peas from ravaging rabbits, these wire sculptures make a good plant support or create a simple focal point in the garden.

Best of all, they’re easy to make with inexpensive hardware store materials. Click on the link below to get your pdf download.

wire plant support

Rhubarb & Sweet woodruff

Celebrate flavor and fragrance with a garden sip that tastes like spring. Perfect and pink for all your gatherings, especially those that honor Moms, sisters, beloved girlfriends, brides, babies, and all the nurturing people in your life.

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spring tonic