Come Into My Garden

Turning an empty palette into colorful gardens

Come into my Garden, Home and GardenBeverly Ash GilbertAugust 2, 2023Gardening, color palette, spending time outdoors, Color Goddess, Color Goddess Quiz

Adding Drip Irrigation - after the fact

Better late than never - drip irrigation inspired by the Bellevue Botanical Garden watering system

Come into my GardenBeverly Ash GilbertAugust 2, 2023Gardening, spending time outdoors

Putting in a Water Feature

Loads upon loads of compost – I’m digging, hauling, dumping, spreading until my back and knees and hips are screaming in pain. But of course, as the days pass, I’m getting into the rhythm and all of a sudden the structure of a garden appears. Is this a pond?

Come into my Garden, Home and Garden TourBeverly Ash GilbertAugust 2, 2023Gardening, spending time outdoors, creating a garden, come into my garden, building a water feature, in our garden, home and garden

Starting seedlings

I’m potting up seedlings grown under a grow-light in our entryway.

Come into my GardenBeverly Ash GilbertAugust 2, 2023living joyfully, spending time outdoors, gardening

Amending the Soil

When we moved in and began digging, we soon determined that the old, tired garden soil was not only sandy, but in many areas, hydro-phobic (wouldn’t absorb water). Enter in 72 yards of compost