This comprehensive planner from master gardener Stacy Ling helps green thumbs design, plant, and grow their flower gardens in an organized, more manageable way. What was the variety of that coreopsis again? When did I plant those snapdragons and pinch them back? How long did the zinnias start blooming after planting the seedlings? If these are the types of questions you’re struggling to answer each season, this user-friendly planner will be your go-to place where you can quickly reference all the information about your garden—what you planted, when you planted it, how it performed, and what you would do differently in the future. The Bricks ‘n Blooms Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Garden Planner will help you in six key areas: Understanding your garden Designing and planning Planting and growing Tracking seasonal gardening tasks Creating a gardening calendar Reviewing flower and plant performance Get more joy out of your easy-care flower garden when you plan for beautiful things to grow!

In this incredibly comprehensive and gorgeously photographed guide, master gardener Stacy Ling helps aspiring green thumbs achieve success with her easy-to-grow, easy-care, and low maintenance approach to growing beautiful flowers. Have you never met a plant you couldn’t kill? Does maintaining a flourishing flower garden seem intimidating or time-consuming? Have you dug around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back? This book is for you! Inside you’ll find everything you need to know to grow beautiful flowers, including: gardening basics to set you up for success great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening graphs, charts, and lists to help you stay organized This guide will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to grow beautiful flowers.

2018 Christian Book Award® This Journey Is as Perennial as the Seasons GraceLaced is about more than pretty florals and fanciful brushwork—it's about flourishing. With carefully crafted intention, this beautiful volume of 32 seasonal devotions from artist and author Ruth Chou Simons encourages readers in any circumstance to become deeply rooted in God's faithful promises. GraceLaced extends a soul-stirring invitation to draw close to God while... resting in who He is rehearsing the truth He says about you responding in faith to those truths remembering His provision to sustain you, time and time again More than 800 individual pieces of art came together in the crafting of this book, including dozens of new, hand-painted Scripture vignettes that Ruth is known for. Who we are and who God is never changes, even though everything else rarely stays the same. Let this book point you to truth as you journey through the changing seasons of your heart.

In this incredibly comprehensive and gorgeously photographed guide, master gardener Stacy Ling helps aspiring green thumbs achieve success with her easy-to-grow, easy-care, and low maintenance approach to growing beautiful flowers. Have you never met a plant you couldn’t kill? Does maintaining a flourishing flower garden seem intimidating or time-consuming? Have you dug around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore back? This book is for you! Inside you’ll find everything you need to know to grow beautiful flowers, including: gardening basics to set you up for success great garden design ideas with ready-made plans for you to follow easy-care instructions for a wide variety of flowers and flowering shrubs helpful how-tos for container and cut flower gardening graphs, charts, and lists to help you stay organized This guide will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to grow beautiful flowers.

Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combines beauty and utility, pride and productivity. Immortalized in images of thatched cottages with flower-filled borders and ducks on the path, what was the reality of the cottage garden? For many the garden was essential to keep food on the table. For those more fortunate, the garden was a blaze of color and a status symbol. Gardens did not just appeal to the senses, however; they played a philosophical and moral role in British society, and thus in British social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor, or as an aesthetic and social ideal of a utopian 'merrie England'.

A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.

Open Your Home and Your Heart Your home is more than the walls that hold it up—it’s the people that pass through the doors and the memories that are made within. As you open your doors through hospitality, you’ll be blessed by the fruit of loving others well. Lined pages provide ample space to record comments and memories Including six key truths that connect your family to the truth of God’s Word A ribbon marker helps keep your place Lay flat binding and uncoated pages provide a great writing surface With beautiful artwork from Ruth Chou Simons throughout, this guest book for your home is the perfect memento of the life you’re building day by day.