Learning to Write and Paint Is Dependent on a Person’s Ability to Dig Deep and to Be Specific. When I start new writing an painting students, I always tell them that having previous experience is not necessary. Sometimes, a person’s previous training is more detrimental than helpful because my approach to teaching is different. Regardless…
Tag: Cottage Garden Living
The Empty Lot of My Childhood – Mow It – Make A Path – Weed to Find the Way – Joy Comes in the Morning
On one scorching hot summer morning, I heard the ratcheting sound of lawn mowers firing up. I hoped the sound was coming from my yard. For days, feather-tufted spikes of Johnson Grass had been waving jubilantly in the wind. I rushed to the door to be sure that my ears were not deceiving me, and…
Plans for a Fragrant Repeat-Blooming Rose Garden – Filled with the Scent of Old Roses – Mixed with Compatible Native Perennials for a Shabby Chic Cottage Garden
Silas Marner Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Old Rose Height: 4.5′ Repeat Bloomer Desdemona Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Strong Old Rose Height: 4′ Repeat Bloomer Harlow Carr Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Old Rose Height: 4′ Repeat Bloomer Image Credit: Zéphirine Drouhin Image Credit: Heirloom Roses Fragrance – Bourbon Rose Fragrance…
How to Compost to Create Soil for Your Garden
During my lifetime, I have lived and gardened in several parts of the country, and in almost every place I have lived, I have been forced to amend my garden’s soil. Before I moved back to Mississippi, I lived and gardened in the Ozark Mountains, where most of the earth is covered by bedrock. In…
Down My Garden Path – Elements of a Cottage Garden
Better Homes and Gardens online has a great article that details the elements of a cottage garden, and one of those elements is that of curved, natural pathways. My garden is a veritable maze of curved pathways: “Create soft meandering pathways instead of those that follow a straight, structured line. Many paving materials work in…
Complementary Colors – In Jacki Kellum’s Art and Garden
Jacki Kellum Color Wheel – Simplified Moving Clockwise from Top Right toward Bottom Right, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Light 2. Cadmium Orange 3. Cadmium Red Light 4. Cadmium Red Dark 4. Red Violet [Mixed from Blue and Opus] Moving Clockwise from Top Left toward Bottom Left, the Colors are: 1. Cadmium Yellow Lemon…
Cottage Garden Living – Garden Ideas & Help All Year Long
Jacki Kellum is an artist and author, but she has also been an avid gardener for decades. Her blog site is at jackikellum.com, but her garden blog is at cottagegardenliving.com. As of May of 2024, she has committed herself to posting garden ideas almost every day on Youtube–sometimes more than one video a day. What…
Yellow Crookneck Squash: Summer Gold – Includes Recipe For Frying Squash in Cracker Crumbs
I am a Southern Country Girl, and during the summers, my family was sustained by the vegetables that my dad grew. My grandmother grew mounds of strawberries and flowers, but my dad–her son–grew vegetables. I know, for a fact, that I am a third generation gardener–on my dad’s side, but I feel quite sure that…
Focus on Creme de Cassis Hollyhock – Hollyhocks Are Classic Cottage Garden Plants
Creme de Cassis Hollyhock Image Credit: American Meadows The Creme de Cassis Hollyhock is named after a French liquer. “Crème de cassis is a French blackcurrant liqueur that originated in the Burgundy region in the 19th century. The original recipe is thought to have been created in Dijon in 1841 by Auguste-Denis Lagoute, and the…
Fragrant Roses in My Garden
I love the fragrance that is characteristic of old roses. That fragrance reminds me of the early summers of my childhood. To help prolong the scent of roses, I have begun making potpourris: Recipes for Rose, Lavender, & Other Potpourris The primary ingredient of my potpourris is the petals of fragrant roses. That is one…