Category Archive: Garden Profiles – Plants, Products, and People

What people are saying about Gardening with Confidence®–50 Ways to add style for personal creativity

Posted by on December 10, 2012

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Thank you for visiting Gardening with Confidence®. I am having a giveaway for a copy of my book Gardening with Confidence®–50 Ways to add style for personal creativity. The contest ends on Monday, December 24, 2012. Tell me how you garden with confidence. I’m and looking forward to hearing what you do!  Please like my Facebook [...]


MooPoo Tea giveaway. Mommies hear this! Let the season continue…

Posted by on November 27, 2012

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THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED If I were standing on a soapbox, this is what you would hear: I am a sustainable gardener as in organic, waterwise, and anything else that lessens my footprint in the natural world. And the whole world is natural. When I use fertilizer, I turn to MooPoo Tea Authentic Haven Brand products. When I [...]


P. Allen Smith Holiday Collection wreath giveaway. Let the season begin!

Posted by on November 21, 2012

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THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED Let’s celebrate! What better way to celebrate than with kicking off the season with a holiday wreath from P. Allen Smith’s Holiday Collection. Allen has graciously offered a wreath from his collections of any of my choosing to offer you in this giveaway. I choose the 20 inch wreath from his [...]


New book: Gardening with Confidence–50 Ways to add style for personal creativity

Posted by on August 30, 2012

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Gardening with Confidence® — 50 ways to add style for personal creativity is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Shipping will be on or about September 15, 2012. This book project was in me to do for a very long time. I wanted to write a book I felt was missing in the gardening community.  A [...]


Dear Cleome,

Posted by on August 12, 2012

Dear Cleome, Since the day we first met, in what seems like another life ago and certainly another garden ago, I’v loved you. I knew one day you would be mine. After more than 10 years of you coming and going, you’re starting to, well, smother me just a little. I need a little space [...]


Just someone that I use to know–Salix matsudana x S. alba ‘Scarlet Curls’

Posted by on June 5, 2012

Dear Salix ‘Scarlet Curls’, When we first met, I thought you were the plant of my dreams. Willow-y, colorful, and attractive to wildlife. I planted you with the hopes of a very, very long relationship.  Now you are just somebody  that I use to know. Helen     I’d never heard of  Salix matsudana x [...]


Weed or wonderful — Two foot tall Dandelions

Posted by on May 26, 2012

Helen  Yoest is an award winning writer and speaker through her business Gardening with Confidence ®. Follow Helen on Facebook Helen’s writing     Helen’s book,  Gardening with Confidence–50 ways to add style for personal creativity is due out this fall. The book launch will  held at the JC Raulston Arboretum, Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m.       [...]