NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

Gardening & Outdoor Spaces

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  • “Can”-do spirit

  • (An overly ambitious) garden plan

  • "Can"-do spirit

  • 2010 Garden – First Edition

  • 24 tomato cages and other garden updates

  • 4 reasons to plant a tree in the fall

  • 5 favorite (easy-to-grow) plants for late-summer blooms

  • A 20-minute outdoor lantern upgrade

  • A barn that bleeds red, white and blue

  • A budget-friendly patio update

  • A deck, a garden and hardwood floors

  • A garden-fresh update despite winter never ending

  • A little arrangement

  • A little mailbox update

  • A mini patio project

  • A new door color for the barn patio

  • A playhouse for mom … I mean, for Henry. It’s totally for Henry.

  • A porch for autumn

  • A very large garden update

  • All lit up

  • Almost famous

  • An easy carriage door garage update

  • An upcycled treehouse for Henry

  • B-E-R-R-Y, you ain’t got no alibi…

  • Backyard bouquets

  • Barn progress

  • Beautiful new deck railings (and a BLACK+DECKER giveaway)

  • Beetle Battle

  • Birdies and BBQ

  • Blooms and other garden progress

  • Blue Ball jars and hydrangeas

  • Building a retaining wall

  • Building and growing in a raised bed garden

  • Building stairs for the UPS guy

  • Can-do spirit

  • Cans to Containers

  • Completed windows

  • Container gardening with DIY window boxes

  • Container-worthy

  • Curb appeal

  • Curb appeal and landscaping on a budget

  • Dear Deck Fairy:

  • Displaying your blooms

  • DIY cedar compost bins

  • DIY Hydrangea Wreath

  • DIY outdoor chairs for the porch

  • DIY screened porch

  • DIY wreath revamp

  • DIY: Blue ball jar solar lights

  • Easy patriotic burlap wreath

  • Easy summer curb appeal tips

  • Eggplant Parmesan

  • Enough with the tulips already

  • Everything’s coming up… TULIPS!

  • Extra! Extra!

  • Failing at a garden (but winning at life)

  • Fall garden tasks

  • Fall is here?

  • Fall outdoor decor

  • Fall porch decorations and all the pumpkins

  • Fall-ified window boxes

  • Farmhouse porch skirting

  • Favorite garden plants for all-year color

  • Featured and flattered

  • Floors on our new front porch

  • Flower Boxes and other curb appeal progress

  • Flower pot house numbers

  • Flowers, finally, and other curb appeal progress

  • For Friday – Flowers, Franco and French Dip

  • From our home to yours

  • Garage revamp

  • Garden growth

  • Garden progress

  • Garden progress – August edition

  • Garden progress – getting close

  • Garden progress – late July

  • Garden progress – mid-May

  • Garden progress 2011 – July edition

  • Garden Progress, mid-June edition

  • Garden-fresh recipes

  • Garden-palooza

  • Gardening … made simple

  • Getting the screened porch summer-ready

  • Gratuitous pat-on-the-back post

  • Hand-me-down kids

  • Hanging wreaths on the windows – dreams do come true

  • Happy Spring!

  • Herb potting ideas

  • Herb your enthusiasm!

  • Herb-a-licious

  • Holiday home tour: Outdoors

  • House hunters – in-law edition

  • House-painting progress

  • How does your garden grow?

  • How to make a $2 boxwood wreath

  • How to make a DIY barn quilt

  • How to paint porch rails and stain a new deck

  • I love fresh mulch

  • I smell a succulent weekend

  • In bloom!

  • In case you think I have a green thumb…

  • It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that spring

  • It’s a worm’s life

  • It’s not easy being green

  • It’s raining, it’s pouring

  • June blooms

  • June blooms and garden transplants

  • Keep it growin’

  • Late lover of pesto

  • Life is better at the barn bench

  • Life is good

  • Little updates: Door numbers

  • Make a DIY planter from a concrete block

  • Making a hanging planter from a fish basket

  • Making a wall planter from junk

  • Making fence planters from cans

  • More butternut squash recipes

  • Moving Beyond Organized Chaos: Garden Style

  • Mulch updates

  • Mums the word

  • My garden fairy tale

  • My ideas are bigger than my follow-through

  • Nesting

  • No boards about it

  • Ode to the zucchini

  • Our evolving rural view (and our experience with the conservation reserve program)

  • Our exterior holiday decor

  • Our new outdoor space

  • Our simple summer patio tour (with a view)

  • Outdoor views

  • Painting a concrete porch

  • Painting a picnic table with chalkboard paint

  • Painting, painting and staining

  • Patriotic decorations on the front porch for Independence Day

  • Perennial gardens – an exercise in patience and planning

  • Photographing houses

  • Pimp Henry’s playhouse

  • Plant a tree for Earth Day | & $10 off from Arbor Day Foundation

  • Planting succulents in window boxes | $75 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

  • Plants for a porch

  • Porch progress and the baby-do list

  • Porch railings in white

  • Porch roofing and exterior lighting ideas

  • Preserving pumpkins for long-term use

  • Pretty painted porch railings

  • Quick porch updates for fall

  • Rain, rain, you can stay

  • Reflection on a first-year garden

  • Refreshing outdoor chairs with BEHR MARQUEE Caicos Turquoise

  • Renovation progress report – week 15

  • Rental reno – outside and porch

  • Seed talk

  • Seeing Miss Effie (and her flowers)

  • Six ways we cut down weeds in the garden

  • So long, ugly fence

  • So many colors, so little time

  • Some flower-induced curb appeal

  • Spring? Are you there?

  • Sprucing up the barn deck

  • Square foot gardening

  • Starting plants from seed

  • Steal this idea: A perennial plant exchange

  • Stumped – home style

  • Summer In Style Outdoor Edition: Our comfortable family porch

  • Sweet Summertime

  • Tabletoppin’

  • That time we failed at having a garden (but grew beautiful popcorn)

  • The best ways to add outdoor holiday cheer (without getting on a ladder)

  • The garden – beginning edition

  • The good, bad and ugly of seed starting

  • The grape vines

  • The last winter

  • The so-far house: Exterior

  • The Woodward Pumpkin Patch

  • The year of 62 pumpkins

  • The year of a million onions and other garden progress

  • This is a blog post about fresh cypress mulch

  • Tinker toys

  • Tips for a longer growing season in the Midwest (planting flowers in April)

  • Tips for early spring planting

  • To the "herbs"

  • Today’s the day to make your yard list

  • Two favorite ways to freeze tomatoes

  • Two gardens

  • Upcycled garden hose storage

  • Veggie Gardening 101

  • Vintage-inspired barn art

  • We’ve got blooms

  • What is old is new

  • Word art on the porch

  • Work wear

  • Year of the pumpkins

  • Yes I can – dill pickles

  • Yes I can – pizza sauce

  • Yes I can – salsa

  • You Grow Girl

  • You had me at "cocktail"