Outdoor Living Spaces

While many folks long for a distant summer getaway, others are finding a relaxing retreat in their own backyard. Outdoor living spaces have grown in popularity for the past several years, and the American Society of Landscape Architects reports that 94.4 percent of residential landscape architects believe outdoor living spaces will continue to be popular [...]

Riding through Life with Ladies on Spokes

The concept of true friendship has been a subject of interest for all the greatest minds, from Cicero to Socrates to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Perhaps Emerson captured the spirit perfectly, insisting that when friendships are real, “they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.”
The members of the Fayette and Coweta [...]

Get Fresh Produce, Gifts and Good Advice at Fresh South Market

We live in such a great community in Fayette County and the addition of the Fresh South Market makes living here just that much better! Each Wednesday and Saturday through November, from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., local vendors are selling their goods at our newest farmer’s market, located at the Peachtree City Crossings Center [...]

Garden Ideas at the Southern Living Idea Home

Last week I headed over to historic Senoia, Georgia to visit the Southern Living Idea House – a charming 3.5-story brownstone on the site of the former McKnight Cotton Gin. This is the first time that Southern Living has featured a brownstone property as an idea home.  The model is an expanded end unit and [...]

A Butterfly in Pennsylvania

While on our recent vacation to visit family in Pennsylvania we had the most extraordinary thing happen. My mother-in-law found some really cool caterpillars on the dill plants in her garden. I had just bought a bug catcher for Kiersten who is three so we put the caterpillars and some dill in and decided to [...]

A Kid-Friendly Garden

Several years ago when my nieces and nephews were small, I hosted an annual holiday scavenger hunt in my
garden right before Christmas. My husband and I spent many hours buying little gifts and treats, wrapping them up and hiding them in the garden.  Boy did I miss an opportunity! Instead of toys and treats, I [...]

Garden Junk: Recycled Items Add Personality in your Garden

Savvy gardeners rarely throw anything away – rather they choose to reclaim, recycle, salvage and reuse
vintage materials in new and inventive ways. That “junk” collecting in your attic and garage can be repurposed in your garden to add personality and highlight your family history.
There is something deeply satisfying in reclaiming an object and giving it [...]

Sometimes Gardening is NO Fun!

Yes, I know that I write the Fayette Woman blog and magazine articles about the joys of gardening. But to be
perfectly honest, sometimes gardening is more chore than fun. Right now I am battling seven river birch trees that are dropping yellow leaves like it was the middle of autumn. I have been out raking [...]

Get Outside – Dirt Makes Your Kids Smarter

If you still aren’t convinced that children who spend a good amount of time outside are healthier, then you need to consider the new study that reveals bacteria found in the soil not only lowers depression and anxiety but can also make your kids smarter! This new research, according to Science Daily, indicates “exposure to [...]

Lisa’s Garden

One of the first things Lisa Szydzik did after moving from Michigan to Peachtree City eight years ago was to pull up the plastic palm trees around the pool and begin to design a real garden. Since the pool area is in full view of the golf cart path, Lisa planted a perennial garden as [...]

A Tour of Gardens in the Columbus GA Historic District

During our first summer heat wave, my mother and I traveled 85 miles south to Columbus, Georgia to tour seven private downtown Columbus Historic District gardens on the 2010 Keep Columbus Beautiful Tour of Gardens. All the private gardens were on Broadway, so we parked our car and enjoyed a walk along the brick roadway [...]

A Garden Party

I went to a garden party but Ricky Nelson was not singing and was not even in attendance. (If you don’t get the reference to Ricky, you are way younger than any of the women at the garden party!) Actually, I hosted
the garden party for Verie Foster to celebrate her milestone birthday. Women of a [...]

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