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How to Budget a Landscape Design Renovation

Garden with pool and clipped boxwood hedges, with olive trees

My Landscape Mood Board & Planning Process

Verbena grows in a natural-looking meadow garden.

Garden Design Ideas for a Beautiful, Low-Maintenance Landscape

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Tina Flint Huffman 6/3/21 Tina Flint Huffman 6/3/21

Garden Design Ideas: My Landscape Mood Board & Planning Process

I undertook a major landscape redesign project last spring of the side garden of my home. Now that it’s grown in some, I want to show you how it turned out, which I’ll do soon. Today, I want to show you my garden “mood board.” It’s not a mood board in the traditional sense, but a collection of imagery from Pinterest that helped me pull together design ideas before starting actual design work.

Tina Flint Huffman 5/27/21 Tina Flint Huffman 5/27/21

Memorial Day Weekend Sales

Memorial Day Weekend Sales! Memorial Day weekend is upon us - can you believe? Along with it are lots of big sales! I’ve put together a lengthy list of plants, décor, and fashion for your perusal. I know I plan to score a few deals over the long weekend - I especially want to see what’s available for outdoor cushions, fun home accessories, and of course, the Nordy 1/2 yearly sale! Happy shopping!

Tina Flint Huffman 1/8/21 Tina Flint Huffman 1/8/21

Best Of Greenhouse Studio 2020 [Top 10 Posts]

To say 2020 was an unprecedented year is an understatement. 2020 was also year one for Greenhouse Studio, having just celebrated it’s one year anniversary.

A lot has happened over the course of one year, and it was fun to look back to see what was most popular. I had no idea what would resonate with readers and what wouldn’t. I had never blogged before, and I was seriously winging it for at least a couple quarters. Mostly just writing what I felt I needed to get off my chest both plant and design-wise.

It was gratifying to see that many of my posts did connect with people, and it made me glad that I gave myself space to organically write what I wanted instead of trying to be more strategic and methodical, which would be an easy default for me, but I think would have been stifling too. So without further ado, here’s the Greenhouse Studio top 10 posts!

Tina Flint Huffman 12/4/20 Tina Flint Huffman 12/4/20

Christmas Cactus Flowering and Care [Strategy for Blooms 2x Per Year]

During the holidays, many of us anticipate the spectacular blooms of Christmas cactus - a favorite indoor winter-flowering succulent! Read on to learn all about how to care for Schlumbergera, Zygocactus, and other holiday cactus growing indoors. The post covers how to water Christmas cactus, pruning, fertilizer, holiday cactus problems, pests, and disease, and how to propagate and re-bloom Christmas cacti.

Tina Flint Huffman 7/22/20 Tina Flint Huffman 7/22/20

Best indoor plant pots based on how you like to water

Ever bring home a new favorite plant (just. one. more. I swear.) but then you realize you don’t have a good pot for it? If you’re anything like me, you’re not happy with your new plant sitting in it’s plastic nursery liner for long.

I want my plants in a pot that looks great with my home decor, and a collection of plastic nursery pots doesn’t cut it. So I’m always on the lookout for attractive and reasonably priced planters, pots, containers - whatever you want to call them, for my ever-expanding plant collection.

Let’s look at some great pots that are all reasonably priced and will beautifully showcase your favorite fronds. (In fact, most come in sets of two!)

Then we can talk about how to pick the right pot according to how you like to water your plants, plus pot workaround tips.