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I look at it across the kitchen and it makes my heart smile.

There’s nothing worse than finding a beautiful, expensive plant that you’ve never seen before, bringing it home, and then learning after the fact that it’s outside of your skill-set as a gardener.Practice with the basics first until you get good at it!.

If you’ve used a plant in your garden before, and you know how it’s going to do, that’s a great bet too!I had some of these bachelor’s buttons at my old house and I know I could never manage to kill them, no matter how neglected they got, so a few of these won a spot in the garden too.. Buy smaller plants and be patient..This is the hard one, right?

We could have spent a fortune on buying really nice, big, mature plants and having a bit of instant gratification, but it’s worth it to have one or two years of an “OK” garden, before it really becomes the garden of our dreams.We’ll learn so much watching the plants grow during that time too.

I’ve often bought really tiny plants that only took a few months before they were five times the size!

I might be an impatient girl, but even I’ll admit that a little bit of patience pays off sometimes..Very inexpensive, but without that extra bit of trim, they would look cheap and flimsy, no matter how sturdy they are..

Adding an extra little bit of really thin (and super cheap) crown molding at the tops really finishes them off and makes all the difference.. On a side note, if you’re wondering what’s up with the lighting in the room, we were having yet another overcast day when I found the time to snap these photos so I had the overhead lights on.Aren’t they fun though?.

Back to the trim..Although it’s really tempting when you get deep into a project to rip everything out and start fresh, it can really help your budget if you leave some of the trim that’s already there in place if it’s in decent shape.