That means there’s been a whole lot of “shaky cheese” in a can on pasta night around these parts.

We could have spent a fortune on buying really nice, big, mature plants and having a bit of instant gratification, but it’s worth it to have one or two years of an “OK” garden, before it really becomes the garden of our dreams.We’ll learn so much watching the plants grow during that time too.

I’ve often bought really tiny plants that only took a few months before they were five times the size!I might be an impatient girl, but even I’ll admit that a little bit of patience pays off sometimes..Borrow from a friend, or another one of your own flower gardens.. Don’t forget about the magic of splitting your perennials!

Some plants actually need to be dug up and split every few years to keep them really healthy.If a friend has a plant you like, it can be dug up in the early Fall, or the early Spring and half of it can be replanted in your garden.

A lot of flowering shrubs can be grown either from little shoots that they put out around their base, or from clippings of their branches.

I have quite a few perennials around the property that I hope to dig up this Fall and maybe add in to some of the bare spots.. That little purple-ish heuchera as well as some of the hostas all came from other gardens on the property..-A container of some sort that you think is pretty.

(Mine is a thrift store urn that I painted black).-A wad of burlap to fill the container.

-Some twigs or branches from the yard or a park.-Some ivory paper tags from the craft store.