Nichole’s Garden

06/03/2025

I’m so happy with my garden this year! The saying is that, when planting perennials, “the first year they sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap.” I think they’re definitely leaping this year! My honeysuckle arch is beautiful and my roses and peonies are going strong. It’s so cool to see the tiny plants I put in the ground a few years ago growing so big and lush!

05/31/2025

I’m pretty behind on the garden pictures (good things are growing, though!) but that’s because I’ve been preoccupied with another project—a nursery! Robbie’s little brother will need a bedroom when he arrives in September and we’ve been busy putting it together. I didn’t want to repaint my former office but I think we’ve made the black walls work and I’m super happy with how it’s turned out. I hate to wish the summer away but I am soooo ready for September to get here!

12/28/2024

What do you do with a 50 degree December day? You plant the thousand+ tulip and narcissus bulbs that have been sitting in your home office since August but never made it into the ground because life got crazy busy.

I planed some fancy tulip varieties in this bed and managed to get hundreds more of the Darwin varieties and several different types of narcissus planted into the landscape. Now just crossing my fingers that I planted enough that the squirrels can’t possibly eat them all.

09/17/2024

Robbie is EIGHT today! Every year seems to fly by even faster than the last. Happy Birthday buddy!

09/06/2024

08/22/2024

Super excited to share my new, finally finished bathroom. I constructed a small dormer on my cape cod-style house to add a bathroom to the second floor. It was the first time I was lucky enough design a space from scratch and pick out every, single detail—and I’m in love!

Thanks so much to Josh Anderson of Anderson Building LLC, Rogers Remodeling, Ehmens, Luke Stockton, Nathan Wright of Nate’s A1 Flooring,
County Line Design, and my parents Cheryl N Dale Johnson for all your help on this project!

04/28/2024

The last of this year’s tulips. I always love the Dream Touch/Apricot Parrot combo. I just planted tulips for fun this year, so I didn’t plant many—but I think I may need to up my game a bit next season and plant a bit more.

04/18/2024

I love tulip season. There’s nothing quite like heading outside on a gloomy, wet day to see the tulips almost glowing in the garden.

02/26/2024

My first flower of the year! This tiny crocus popped up today and I’m so ready for more! I spent the day getting my pop up greenhouse up and assembling three more raised garden beds. Who else took advantage of the gorgeous weather to get out into the garden?

01/14/2024

Yay for baby plants! It might be -10 degrees outside but these little guys are nice and snug under lights and on a heat mat in my basement. These babies are snapdragons and eucalyptus (no sign of any lisianthus germination yet, but they’re always slow and tough to get going).

01/08/2024

It’s been a long while since my last post but it’s a new year and time for a fresh start. I sowed my first seeds of 2024 today—eucalyptus, lisianthus, and snapdragons.

Who else has started seeds and what are you growing?