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June 2022 Garden Tour

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Happy June! I hope you all had a good long weekend!

Gardening is one of my favorite things to do in the summer. I spend so much time poking around the gardens outside, seeing what’s growing, admiring how things grow together and interplay. Every summer, I try to give you a little peak at how my gardens are growing this year. So here’s my first installment of the Lane family garden 2022. There’s still work to do, but you don’t fully appreciate the work and growth without the ’before’ pictures.

The west side garden. This bed gets full sun. I love zinnias as fillers of this garden in between the peonies and other annuals. I’ve added a few more perennials this year. The lime green stonecrop in the front of the beds is an annual, and I planted white supertunias in between each one this year. The clematis on the trellis is in its second or third year, and looks super full and gorgeous.

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The Basics of Peony Care

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I can’t remember a time in my life that I didn’t love peonies. They remind me of my mom’s garden in the spring during childhood. Flowers filled our house for two weeks as they bloomed in the spring with big, beautiful fluffy ruffles.

All of my peonies (and peony knowledge) relates to herbaceous peonies, so that’s what I’m going to cover here.

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My Top 5 Products for Gardening

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It’s Earth Day and spring is here, and in just a few weeks in Kansas City, the garden centers are going to be brimming with gorgeous annuals calling my name! I’m sharing my five most favorite products for gardening today. I love gardening. It brings so much joy to watch things grow and take care of them all summer.

#1 Gardening Gloves :: There are a million different types of gardening gloves, but these are my favorite. They dry quickly and allow for good movement. Mine have lasted many seasons.

#2 Drip system irrigation :: If you don’t have beds that have underground sprinklers that cover watering the beds, drip system irrigation is the way to go. You can lay your irrigation system out before planting and then cover with mulch after you’ve planted everything and not worry about watering all summer. This is my favorite starter pack and timer. I wrote an entire blog post on installing drip irrigation HERE. I also love it because I don’t have to worry about my plants surviving when we go on vacation!

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July Garden Tour

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Gardening brings me a lot of peace – wandering outside to water in the morning and see what’s growing and blooming that day. Today I’m sharing my July garden tour. If you missed my June garden tour, go back and take a peek here!

Here’s how it works: I walk around my yard and take pictures of the gardens. I don’t clean up, put away toys that have been left out, or weed. This is just how life in my gardens look today!

Here’s how things are looking in the garden today!

Limelight hydrangeas are starting to bloom. That lantana is growing as big as I thought it would! Loves its spot!

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Friday Favorites {06.25.21}

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This summer seems to be flying by. Can you believe that next week is already Fourth of July weekend? Where has the time gone?

We had so much fun last weekend celebrating Father’s Day with our favorite dad around! While I barely survived making breakfast with both of the boys for Nathan (i.e. there were absolutely no pictures taken! Only repeated “don’t touch that’s!” and answering endless requests to “taste test.”) We went on a family walk to the park, where Harrison showed off his ever improving climbing skills, and went out as a family for a barbecue dinner! We love our Dada!

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Garden Tour – June 2021

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Oh my goodness. It’s been a week. Well a week and a half! We had so much fun as a family a couple of weekends ago, and I was just feeling uninspired to write blog posts, that I inadvertently took last week off. Then the whole family, except for Nathan, passed around a miserable head cold last week. It was terrible. Baby J and I got it the worst, but I spent the better part of last week trying to learn a new job, while simultaneously dealing with a head cold that at all hours of the day made my head, sinuses, throat, and all the things feel bloated and painful. I think we’re turning a corner, though. On the mend, *fingers crossed.*

Today, I wanted to share a June garden tour! I filmed this a little more than a week ago. Gardening is a hobby in the summer months. I can’t keep a house plant alive for the life of me. 😳. But about once a month during the summer, I love to share a little walkthrough of the gardens.

I always feel inspired getting to virtually walkthrough other people’s gardens. It gives me ideas of ways to combine plants that I hadn’t thought of before, or plants that I want to try the next season. I actually keep a running list on my phone of plants that I’d like to incorporate the next year. You all are the best inspiration and such a wealth of knowledge, and that’s what I love most about this space and Instagram. It gives me access to virtual friends that I learn so much from.

Anyways, enough blabbering, and on to the tour. I hope you enjoy!

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Friday Favorites {06.04.21}

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First official week of summer is in the books! First week of my new job. We’re looking forward to this weekend of more soccer starting up for Harrison, and a trip to the zoo with friends!

I got to pick out my Mother’s Day gift a couple weekends ago. New sunglasses! Nathan came home a few weeks back with new sunglasses from Warby Parker. And they looked so good and high quality for a fraction of the price of designer sunglasses. So that’s what they got me for Mother’s Day! A fresh pair of sunglasses for the summer.

These are the Rhea style. We have a Warby Parker store in Kansas City, but I used their app to try them on beforehand. Love them! And for $95, such a good deal! I think both of my designer pairs were significantly more than that.

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Friday Favorites {05.28.21}

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It finally stopped raining, ya’ll. Finally. KC can now commence with the summer weather, I suppose! We are excited to head into the long holiday weekend. We have some fun plans with Nathan’s grandma planned who is visiting KC for the weekend, and I’m sure lots of soccer, outdoor time, and popsicles in our future! Harrison suggested to me on our ride to school this morning, “Hey – I have an idea.” “What’s up, bud?” “Maybe we can have a party on home day. And eat on the ground!” “That’s a great idea, bud!” “Outside on the ground!” So maybe we’ll have a picnic, too.

Finally nice enough outside and not pouring rain for lunch on the patio! The perks of working from home. A little outside time in the middle of the day always bolsters the mood.

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Let’s Look At…Backyard Organization

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Once a month I link up with two of my favorite blogs (Shay @ Mix and Match Mama and Erika @ A Little Bit of Everything), to share a “look” into some little aspect of our life. Here’s a peak back at what we’ve “looked” at this year:

Today we’re sharing our backyard organization. My backyard is my favorite part of our whole house. It’s peaceful and serene, and it’s our very favorite place to be at home, especially this time of year.

When we originally moved into this house seven years ago, the only thing in the backyard was this screened in porch…

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