Introducing the Best Bed Frame Brands Out There! Long gone (maybe not so long, for some) are the days of walking into your new crushes home and being appalled. There’s no toilet paper in the bathroom, there’s 4 different Sriracha bottles on the kitchen counter, and in their bedroom, there is nothing but a mattress …
Introducing the Best Bunk Bed Brands Bunk beds were always part of my childhood. My sister and I used to share a bunkbed when we were little, and when we were old enough to have our own rooms, we both chose to have our own bunk beds (those super fun lofted kinds). Some of my …
Picking the Perfect Ottoman Ottomans are one of those pieces of furniture that are quite often forgotten about. If you have a couch and a coffee table to throw your feet up, then what’s the point? Ottomans actually have far more potential that we may realize, and I only learned this when I picked up …
On the Hunt for Furniture Interior decorating can be a challenge. There are some people out there who don’t know what style they like, others who don’t have the financial means to find nice furniture, some who simply don’t care about how their home looks, and others who think that a mattress right on the …
Choosing the Perfect Dining Table I don’t know about you, but meal time has always been a very important time of the day in my life. I was raised in a household that had dinner together every night. I remember on special occasions it was always my responsibility to get the extra slats out of …
Choosing the Perfect Home Office Chair Like you, I am one of the many thousands of people who have transferred from in-person work to at-home work, and it took me a little bit of time to understand just how important it is to have a proper office space when you’re working from home! For the …
Choose the Perfect Home Office Desk If you’re anything like me, you have had the sincere privilege of working from home for the past couple of years. As excited as I was to be doing remote work, I was not at all prepared for what the meant! I don’t have a home office, I have …
Choosing the Best Modular Sofa Brand Nowadays, us consumers are just spoiled for options. There are so many different types of sofas out there that you can buy: recliners, sectionals, leather sofas, sleeper sofas, loveseats, giant L shaped sofas, and lately, modular sofas have been all the rage! We’re spoiled for options in more ways …
Choosing the Perfect Reclining Sofa I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older or movies are just getting better and better (come to think of it, I mostly watch the classics) but I find that I spend a wonderful time on the couch! I nap on my couch, I’m currently writing this article on …
Choosing the Perfect Leather Sofa There’s just something special about a leather sofa. I always used to hate leather sofas when I was young because I would always slide right off, but now I realize it’s just because I wasn’t ready for the majestic experience that is sitting on a leather sofa. Sitting on a …
Choosing the Perfect Lounging Sofa I don’t know about you, but I have pretty much earned professional couch potato status. As I age, I find that the longer I stay out at night the more deeply I long for my living room sofa. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my existing comfy couch, but …
Choosing the Perfect Reading Sofa Living in a world that is so dedicated to consuming information from screens, everyday it becomes more and more important to dedicate some of your day towards reading. Whether it be a magazine, a good book, a comic, or your own journal entries from 6 years ago (yikes), reading is …
Buying a Deep Seated Sofa I don’t know about you, but as I age I become more and more of a homebody. Socializing exhausts me like it never has before, I do nothing all day and then feel exhausted, and when I do leave the house I find myself dreaming about my couch. Reading that …
Purchasing an Affordable Sofa Inflation is happening and it doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon, (though I did hear on the radio that it seems to just be leveling out and not increasing anymore) life can get really expensive! Appliances break, pets get sick, cars need repairs, you forget an anniversary and have …
Firefly Mimics It ain’t a summer evening in North America without dancing fireflies in your eyes. I don’t see these beauties all that much anymore, but whenever I do, it completely stops me in my tracks. Fireflies are wonderful little creatures, but most of the time we can only tell that it’s a firefly in …
Bee Mimics I’m sure that you’ve been in a situation where you were having a picnic, sitting on a bench, on a first date, riding a bike, simply minding your own business when a buzzing, flying insect started buzzing around your head. You immediately panic. You throw your smoothie in the direction of the buzzing, …
Overwatering Oregano If you’re anything like me, there’s a chance that you have a whole lot of plants in your house and some of them get forgotten about for a week or two. This doesn’t make you a bad plant parent, if anything, sometimes our kiddies need a healthy dose of neglect! This is where …
Making Oil of Oregano So you know all about growing oregano, how to harvest the leaves and how to harvest the seeds. You’re a pro at washing the leaves, at drying them after and grinding them up into spice. But you’re not an oregano expert until you learn how to make your very own oil …
Dying Oregano Oregano is one of the awesome, essential, resilient, prolific, delicious, fragrant, and irreplaceable herbs that everyone should have either in their garden or dried in their pantry. It is known as being super tough and easy to grow, but sometimes, no matter our greatest efforts, things can go awry. If you’re a gardener …
Harvesting Oregano There’s nothing like finishing off a beautifully prepared meal with an aromatic herb that you plucked from your very own garden or indoor herb garden. Growing oregano, thyme, basil, or mint is a great way to elevate your regular recipes, and a great way to increase your gardening skills, too! Gardening isn’t always …
Flowering Oregano Chances are that you’re here because you already have an oregano plant growing in your outdoor or indoor herb garden. Who can blame you! This perennial herb is easy to grow, lovely to look at, and it’s both an amazing edible and medicinal plant on top of it all! Like many other perennial …
Collecting Oregano Seeds Growing oregano is wonderful for so many reasons. It can function as a gorgeous ornamental plant for your garden while simultaneously attracting pollinators, but it is also essential if you’re at all serious about preparing delicious and fresh meals. Growing oregano is especially wonderful if you’re not too keen on heading to …
Drying Oregano Simon & Garfunkel missed an important ingredient when they were writing about parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme: oregano! Oregano is an essential herb when it comes to savory cooking, and everyone probably already has it in their pantry. Homegrown herbs are a great way to ensure that you always have fresh herbs on …
Introducing Oregano Oregano is an herb that you have already likely seen in a pantry, grocery store, or refrigerator. It is an essential herb to all sorts of cultures of cuisine and brings a pleasant kick to all sorts of different savory dishes. One important aspect of oregano care is knowing how to handle it …
Introducing the Different Types of Bamboo Welcome to the huge family of bamboo plants. The bamboo plant family is a super diverse group of perennial flowering plants that are also evergreen. This means that they have stems and leaves that persist and remain green all year round. Bamboo is part of the subfamily bambusoidae, and …
Introducing the Different Types of Lotus Flowers Alright, I’m going to be honest with ya’ll here. I have written about hundreds, thousands of different tree and flower species so far in my career, and there is no other plant species as evasive and illusive as the lotus plant. Nobody can really seem to agree on …
Why Grow Alocasia Plants? You’re obviously here because you’re a bit of a daredevil gardener. You’ve figured out how to keep tomatoes happy, you think the art of bonsai is a cinch, and orchids never really gave you much trouble and you simply do not know what all of the fuss is about! Alocasia care …
Growing Trailing Plants Indoors There’s really nothing like a trailing houseplant to liven up a living area. I think that trailing houseplants give a different feel than more erect and upright plants do. There’s nothing like greenery coming at you from every angle! Trailing houseplants have that lovely cascading growth habit. You can drape them …
Basil Seed Germination I think every gardener goes through the phase of planting seedlings and eventually takes a whack at starting a plant directly from seed. After all, it is a natural evolution to learn how to garden right from the start! Sometimes this process can be tricky! There are some plant seeds that take …
Encouraging a Bushy Basil Plant If you’re growing basil, chances are that it’s going to be for culinary purposes. Basil is one of the most popular and widely used culinary herbs on the plant, and being able to have a fresh one in your house at all times will add a fresh kick to any …
Rooting Basil I don’t need to tell you that you love basil. That is probably why you’re here! But not everybody has the time or patience to grow basil right from seed. Luckily, there is a super timely and cost effective to grow basil and that is through growing from cuttings! Basil is going to …
Flowering Basil A flowering basil plant is a beautiful thing, but it is also quite a meaningful plant-happening depending on why you are growing basil in your garden in the first place. We’ve written this article in an effort to inform gardeners about why their basil plant is flowering, and what you should do going …
Harvesting Basil Seeds If you’ve read all of our other articles about caring for basil – whether it be identifying dying basil, dealing with bolting basil, browning basil, growing basil indoors, keeping away basil pests, or dealing with overwatered basil, and when to harvest basil leaves – you’re probably an expert by now. So you’ve …
Genus Cistus If you happen to live in an area with intense heat, heavy winds and tons of salt spray, you may find it difficult to find species of flowering plants that can tolerate those types of conditions. However, you needn’t look much further than members of the genus cistus. Cistus plants are more commonly …
Protecting Basil from Cold Basil is a wonderful, tender annual plant that will completely uplift your cooking life if you can grow it in or around your home. However, the more that you learn about basil plants, the more you understand that they are quite the high-maintenance herb! What are they most sensitive to? Dips …
Dealing with Over Watered Basil Just because it is a popular herb, doesn’t meaning that growing basil is a simple task. The more you learn about basil plants, the more you will find just how particular and high maintenance they really are. Basil is over sensitive to a lot of different conditions, and the most …
Browning Basil The more you learn about basil, the more you start to understand that it is actually a pretty high maintenance plant. But that doesn’t mean that it’s fragile! As long as you can maintain the ideal growing conditions of a basil plant, it will reward you with gorgeous tasting and smelling foliage. Whether …
Basil Pests The more you learn about basil care, the more that you start to understand just how high maintenance of an herb basil is. That being said, the flavor and aroma of basil plants makes all of the effort completely worth it. There is something that loves the taste of basil foliage more than …
Bolting Basil Have you ever gone to trim your basil plant to garnish a pasta dish or a cocktail, and found the flavor of the leaves to have changed? Well, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this event, and it’s even something that is preventable! Your basil plant has bolted, but not to worry. …
Harvesting Basil Basil is truly divine for so many reasons. It smells lovely, looks lovely, and tastes lovely. It is wonderfully easy to grow (as long as you know the tips and tricks) and it can grow prosperously in your outdoor herb garden or indoor windowsill garden! Though it may seem obvious to some, there …
Do you Have a Sad Basil Plant? Gardeners are often surprised by how finicky basil plants can be. Though it is a very common herb to grow in your indoor herb garden or outdoors in your herb patch, there are so many issues that they are rather sensitive to. Luckily, at the same time they’re …
Why Should you Start an Indoor Herb Garden? There is something extremely pleasurable about growing your own fresh herbs and your own veggies and fruit. Though it may be daunting to some people because of the amount of tools, time, and effort it takes, all of that becomes worth it the very first time that …
Introducing Cilantro Plants! The perennial question that is constantly on everyone’s minds: is it cilantro, or is it coriander? Well, technically it’s both. Cilantro and coriander are basically different parts of the same plant! Cilantro is the name used for the leaves of the plant, whereas coriander is in reference to seeds that emerge after …
Introducing Parsley We’re all guilty of being served a veggie platter or a little fruit cup with a sprig of parsley and we toss it to the side without a care in the world. Why do we do this?! Once you learn all of the benefits to growing parsley and eating parsley, you’ll never discard …
Introducing Fennel Fennel! What a superb vegetable. Fennel is one of those super healthy veggies that is also zero waste — every single part of the fennel plant is edible! This perennial herb is loved by gardeners and cooks all around the world. Foeniculum vulgare is a flowering plant that is a member of the …
Introducing Aloe Aloe vera is truly a magical plant. It’s gorgeous, it’s medicinal, it’s easy to care for, and it makes for a truly wonderful house plant that brings a tropical feel to any space. The aloe genus contains over 500 different species of succulent plant species. These are all evergreen perennial plants that are …
Introducing Eucalyptus! There are different kinds of relationships that people have with eucalyptus plants. Some people only know them for their presence in a dried floral arrangement, or as a great cut stem to keep in your shower. Others know eucalyptus as being an incredibly fast growing ornamental plant. Bamboo plants are pretty much the …
Introducing the Lavender Plant! Welcome to the genus lavandula! There are about 47 different species of lavender out there, but all of them are part of the mint (lamiaceae) botanical family, making them cousins with other herbs like rosemary, sage, basil, and thyme. You’ve heard of lavender before, and chances are that you already have …
Introducing Oregano! I challenge you to find a pantry that doesn’t have dried oregano in it. This is an essential herb to so many different types of cuisines, so imagine how wonderful it would be to be able to pluck some fresh leaves right off the plant? The genus oreganus is part of the mint …
Introducing the Bay Laurel Tree Laurus nobilis, sometimes known as sweet bay, true laurel, or Grecian laurel, the bay laurel tree is a common growing plant, but a rather uncommon evergreen tree for people to incorporate into their property. Bay is a spice or herb that people use all the time in their soups, stews, …