Easy Flea Market style: bird houses, feeders, and crafts
It's bird watching time! Look what fun and easy things flea market gardeners are doing to celebrate birds. These projects can be made in a…
Meeting Debbie McMurry
Regularly, we tour a garden belonging to one of the very involved, and talented members of Flea Market Gardening. These folks are inspirational and talented…
How to build a vintage style potting bench
From salvage to sensational! Cottage style is comfortable and often decorative, but to be truly in-character, the best pieces are fun and functional. When Kirk…
Contest drawing: SUPER-Inspirational SUNDAY this Sunday!
Football not your cup of tea? Will you be online while the footballers enjoy their game? Well, here's something fun to do on Sunday, February…
Old ladders reach new heights in the garden
How to use that old wooden ladder in your garden... Now that most practical ladders are metal, we Flea market gardeners can look for the…
Flea Market containers: If It Will Hold Dirt…
Adding unexpected containers to your Flea Market Garden Junk recycling reaches new heights when creating art and creative containers for the garden. Just as we…
Garden orbs and gazing balls in the garden
Our favorite garden art,...anything spherical! The first records of gazing globes show that they were hand made by Venetian artisans who crafted them out of mouth-blown glass. In…
Do you know what Whimsies are?
Mary Mirabal’s marvelous whimsies What are whimsies? They are truly art pieces and, in a sense, jewelry for your garden. A true Flea Market gardener,…
Can there be too many home and garden ideas?”
A Flea Market Gardening opinion How do you save garden ideas? Do you? I keep a computer file of ideas like many do, but sometimes…
A Greenhouse from Old Windows: Elegant Ideas of Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe
Garden greenhouse tour to Sweden! Resarö, Sweden — North winds blow hard from the Baltic Sea and buffet against the willow fence around Tyra Lindhe’s…
Cardinals rule!
When gardeners turn to birdwatching... A favorite activity during the cold Iowa Winter months is chasing birds around with my camera! Well, not literally 'chasing'…
Aging pots and metal in the garden
Aging things to make them look old can give your garden an antique and timeless look that many gardeners crave. Here are some things to…
Blue Bottle Trees in a Flea Market garden
Recycling at its most colorful! Recycling is one of the many ways gardeners care for the environment and every once in a while, turns out…
Winter’s rest is spring’s promise
Winter garden dreaming "All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into…
Winter sowing wizards
Seeds planted and protected with recycled plastics ... Winter sowing is one of those revolutionary ideas that can change a gardener’s world forever, especially if…
Junk garden shopping at The Barn
Flea Market Gardening has gone 'On the Road!' Come with us for a trip to a true treasure-filled junk yard in California Country. On the…
Decorating with Winter Berries
Decorating with natural berries for fresh Winter color! Keep a winter decorating theme in your home using the cozy color of natural twigs, pine cones, boughs and…
Keeping my yearly gardening journal
Tell your garden story in a journal "One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides." - W.E. Johns, creator…
In a garden of rusty delights …
Appreciating rust in the garden Rust is an accidental kind of beauty. You don’t usually set out to make it … it just happens. Top…
Steller’s jay means cold weather in California
At Flea Market Gardening, we love birds! In our albums we have collected, there are many photos of the ones in our backyards, from humble…