To many of us, fall means mums on the porch. I didn't want mine to be like everyone else's though so I tried something a bit different. Check it out:

All I needed was potting soil, a cute pot and a mum!  How're you decorating for fall?

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Help, dear gardening friends! I received 2 lovely violets at a tradeshow recently. I brought them home and potted them both in a double-wide planter. The planter sits inside my kitchen window. One is thriving and blooming. The other? Well I officially called time of death on it this last weekend. MyViolet, the company I got the violets from, has a plant diagnosis tool on their website but my plant doesn't have a lot of symptoms at this…

I get a nasty case of hay fever every year. Why, at this very moment my head feels like it may explode and I'd rather be dozing. The culprit of my misery? Ragweed. That lovely-to-look-at-yellow adoring much of the midwest's roadsides and fields. The plant that, if what I've read is correct, can each individually produce a BILLION grains of pollen a season. So take a stab at how I feel when I see…

Check out this table.

You could sit at a meal and pluck an herb growing from your table legs as part of your dinner!

It's a Plantable table from JAILmake.

I'm guessing the inventors don't have kids or pets.

I can only imagine how much fun my dogs would have…