Growing with GROW.
Education Conferences are meant to grow your brain, but this week I worked with WWOTB Event Sponsor Grow Financial to bring life to their employee table and their vendor table. Working with my newest...
View ArticleThe Home Depot Launchs the “Doing Nation”
Do your spring plans include projects such as a Vertical Garden? Patio Firepit?? Raised Vegetable bed?? Consider joining the Home Depot in their Doing Nation program recently launch, running from...
View ArticleHigh Style Planters As Clothing??
“Searching for clothing with room to grow? Look no further than Egle Cekanaviciute’s six-piece “Seed” collection, which doubles as a series of wearable planters. Using potato sacks and tailor’s...
View ArticleSpring Garden Inspired Reading
GROW COOK EAT Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who already buy fresh, seasonal, local, organic food to grow the food they love to eat. For those who already have experience getting their hands...
View ArticleWhen Garden Containers, Design and Parties Go Bad
Whether is it for a garden project, home or event design, we all have good intentions, but then sometimes….things don’t turn out as expected. Believe me, I see it all the time around my neighborhood...
View ArticleThe Twitter #GardenPartyChat Launch!
Beginning on Wednesday June 13th at 8 PM EST An Appealing Plan will host a twitter chat party under the hashtag #GardenPartyChat. Each week we will be discussing gardens, parties, lifestyle and...
View ArticleGifts For The Gardener: Paperwhites
Looking for a great way to give the gardener on your list flowers for the holidays and beyond: Grow them yourself — indoors. You can have fun picking out the perfect container to suit the recipients...
View ArticleLOCAL LOVE: Twilight Market Opens In Ybor, Florida
{This article & image were orginaly posted on 83degrees.com } Tiffany Ferrecchia, 32, is the creative behind some of the region’s most popular neighborhood gathering spots: the Seminole Heights...
View ArticleABC Action News Segment to Support Eco Fest 2013
Krayl Funch of An Appealing Plan and Brian Potts of Porchside Coffee, were in the ABC Action News Studio to help support the upcoming Eco Fest 2013 on the Learning Gate Community School campus....
View ArticleEntranceway Design: Bamboo As a Structural Element in Vero
On a recent trip to Vero Beach, FL we stopped into Gloria Estefan’s hotel and restaurant, Costa de Este on the beach. Although the day was cool and overcast the staff at the pool bar was welcoming and...
View ArticleMother’s Day history and a gift for mom!
The idea for a “Mother’s Day” is credited by some to Julia Ward Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both suggested a holiday dedicated to a day of peace. Many individual states...
View ArticleMake a grand Entrance this Season.
Your entranceway is the first impression of your home or business to a guest or client. Your home may be lovely beyond the front porch or center hall but that first impression is already made. Or...
View ArticleSeasonal Cut Greens Bring Color to Your Entranceway Containers
Winter temperatures and cloudy skies can leave garden containers looking less than attractive. Placing cut greens like such as Pine boughs and Magnolia trimmings along with Red Dogwood branches, and...
View ArticleDecorating the Front Door for Thanksgiving Harvest
In this video for eHow I discuss how to decorate the Front Door for Thanksgiving or Harvest Dinner. This is something you can easily do even if you live in an apartment. How to Decorate the Front...
View ArticleA Bountiful Fall Entranceway
Fall Entranceway design is one if my favorite services and topics. This time of year is all about the bounty and harvest of the season, so head to your local farmers market and create a welcoming...
View ArticleEggplant in Bloom!
Two new flowers on the potted eggplant! Someone is loving all this cool rainy weather Debby is bringing to the area! Cheers! KraylThe post Eggplant in Bloom! appeared first on An Appealing Plan.
View ArticleGardening: What is a Topiary?
topiary noun (Concise Encyclopedia) Art of training living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes. Topiary is known to have been practiced in the 1st century AD. The earliest...
View ArticleGardening: What Is A Tulip?
tu·lip noun \ˈtü-ləp, ˈtyü-\ : a large, bright flower that is shaped like a cup and that grows in the spring : any of a genus (Tulipa) of Eurasian bulbous herbs of the lily family that have linear or...
View ArticleBells Of Ireland
One of my all time favorite green flowers, the Bells Of Ireland, is also one of the most unusual looking flowers you will see in your market or florists shop, but it is the perfect stand alone...
View ArticleContainer Herb Garden From Seed #OXOSpringGardening
Spring and Summer-like temperatures, have come to our neighborhood and I am finally creating the container herb garden from seed I have been talking about for the last couple of years. Included in...
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