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Where are my gardening gloves – time to get my hands in some dirt

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I’ve got my work cut out for me this weekend! Yesterday evening my husband and I went to a new garden center that opened up near us – it’s called Reeves Nursery.

We’d driven past the site a few times in the last couple of weeks and when I took a look at their website I discovered that they have a “no tax” Wednesday every week … so we figured we might save some money if we went shopping for our plants last night.

It turned out that they were having a 20% off sale … so we got that instead of the “no tax” as that saved us an extra 7%. They had a great selection of plants in a variety of sizes and the prices were ok … I’d be happy if the prices were the lowest I could find, but the discount and the quality of the plants made me a happy gardener.

We ended up spending more than I thought we would. You see we have several hanging planters, window planters and 7 balcony boxes (those large low rectangular planters) to fill with annuals.

I did grow some of my own annuals this year, but not nearly as many as I need.

So … what did we end up getting?

A flat of Impatiens, 2 nice double flowering Begonia, 2 small Fuchsia, 6 dwarf Dahlia’s, 6 Gerber Daisies, a few Coleus, several Lobelia and Petunia plants, dwarf white night scent Nicotina, several Marigolds in vibrant orange and yellow and I’m sure a few other plants that I can’t think of right now.

I also picked up some early Girl tomato plants, Sweet cherry 100, English cucumbers a few types of lettuce and Swiss Chard.

The only plants I couldn’t find, but ones that I usually use in my garden or planters were annual Geraniums and Cleomes. When I found the dwarf Dahlia’s I thought I’d use them instead of the Geraniums but if I can find some Geraniums this weekend I might use both.

As for the Cleomes I did find some at Reeves but they were single plants in 4 inch pots at 2.99 each … and I need about 20 of them to border the back of my garden beds so I’ll have to find cheaper ones. Oh and I did take some seeds off the plants last year so I’ll be planting some of last years seeds in the back of the garden beds this weekend too.

Earlier in the week we’d been to another garden center. I wanted to find a replacement for one of my roses – Chicago Peace – as it didn’t seem to come back this year. With the great weather we’ve had all year I’d think it would show signs of life by now, especially considering that all the rest of my roses are 3 to 7 feet high, full of leaves and rose buds … but no luck.

So … I thought I’d replace that rose with perhaps a Weigela or another type of flowering hardy shrub since I’ve now lost two roses in the same spot in the garden. I did pick out a purple Weigela that I love, but then I found yet another Chicago Peace … so I guess the Weigela will go in another place in the garden and I’ll try the rose for the third and final time in my small oval patio garden bed.

All in all I think I picked up 75 or more plants! You know what I’m going to be doing this weekend … planting, planting, planting. I’ll also be pulling out all my seeds and get some veggies and a few other annuals started by seed.

Hows the weather in your area? Are you going to be planting this weekend too?






Lovely Wedding Favors to fit any budget

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The holidays and the New Year will soon arrive and I was thinking that that’s the time when many people become engaged.

If you are planning a wedding or hope to soon begin Wedding plans one site that you should visit is Weddingfavors.com. Naturally, the products that they specialize in selling are Wedding Favors of all kinds.

The Wedding Favors site makes it easy to select and purchase wedding favors in volume. You see they have a volume pricing calculator. Simply visit the site and browse through their lovely selection of wedding favors. When you find an item that you’d like to give to your guests as a gift simply click on the product link to learn more about the item.

Often the price for a single item is displayed, however right above the price you’ll find a box where you can type in the quantity of items you’ll need. Type in the amount needed and then click update prices. If you’ve qualified for their volume pricing you’ll see that the price per single item has gone down and a total price will also be displayed. You might also see a message that tells you how many more items you need to buy to qualify for the next volume pricing discount.

You can also click on the volume pricing tab at the bottom of each Wedding Favor item page to see the volume pricing chart.

I love this feature! I don’t believe that I’ve seen a volume price calculator on other wedding favor sites that was so easy to use. I’m sure this feature will make it a lot easier for those planning weddings to stick to their budget.

As for the selection of favors – there’s a wonderful selection. They have beautiful pewter photo frames, boxes, cameras, personalized wedding favors, favors by themes, candles, flowers, place cards, wedding bell favors, Bookmark wedding favors, crystal wedding favors and even bottle stop wedding favors. The items are lovely.

You can also check their Sale section or browse through their wedding favors by season to find items that suit a wedding for any season.

Visit the Wedding Favors site to see their lovely selection.

The Deal Locker has coupons and coupon codes for garden related items

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Everyone has to shop whether they enjoy shopping or not. I’ll bet that most of us shop several times each week whether it’s a short trip to the corner store, buying a coffee at work, going grocery shopping, visiting department stores to shop for clothes or appliances or perhaps purchasing items online.

We all shop.

So why not save some money?

I had no trouble discussing this site as I love saving money and the Deal Locker is most definitely a great site in which to find free online coupons that you can use when you are shopping in retail stores or while shopping online.

There are literally tens of thousands of deals, and coupon codes for thousands of products and stores.

Besides the wide range of coupons and the potential to save money, I like the fact that members of the site can add coupons and coupon codes that they’ve found on their own to the site and in this way share some fantastic deals with other users of the Deal Locker website.

Another thing that I like about Deal Locker is the fact that they only show coupons that are working. They do not list expired coupons and there’s no switching from one coupon to another with a poor deal when you click on a coupon like some coupon sites tend to do. Each coupon on the site has also been user rated, so as you browse through the site and you find a product or store that you’d like to see coupons for you’ll be shown the recommended coupons first which have been rated by site members and which are coupons that are most likely to work for you when you try to use them.

There’s another tab at the top of your search list and it’s marked “All Coupons”. Some of the coupons in the All Coupons section have been found to not work well for everyone who’s tried them. At least Deal Locker has this rating system. You can save time by checking the user ratings and by picking coupons that are guaranteed to work or that have worked for most people.

On the main page you’ll see that there are tabs at the top that allow you to browse through the store listings and categories. You could also just use the search box and type in the name of the item you are hoping to find coupons for, or the store for which you’d like to find coupon codes.

So you’re probably saying to yourself that’s great that I can find coupons and save some money by visiting this site before I go shopping, but do they have any gardening coupons? You bet they do!

I actually found three different areas with coupons related to gardening. There are garden coupons, gardening coupons, and gardens coupons. The garden coupons section has the most coupon listings at the moment with 18 different coupons and coupon codes. I found Henry Field’s Seed and Nursery Coupons and Lillian Vernon Coupons as well as coupon codes for Spring Hill Nurseries, Home Depot and many other well known garden related stores and nurseries.

I’m sure if I really browsed through all the categories I’d find many other sections that could be related directly to gardening as well.

Visit the Deal Locker yourself and see if you also think that this is a great site to find all kinds of coupons and deals. I don’t know about you, but I’m bookmarking this site.

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