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Create your own custom shed at Gazebo Creations

August 13, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sure even one time visitors to this site can easily figure out that I love plants and perhaps even that I have a garden. Long time readers know just how extensive my garden and my passion for gardening really is since I post about it often enough.

The only major thing that my garden is missing is a storage shed of some kind. We actually have a fairly small backyard and when I planned my garden I did so knowing I’d miss out on storage space. I thought I could live with that decision but 6 years later I really do want a storage area since my gardening tool collection has grown as my garden has matured.

Considering that I don’t have a lot of space for a storage shed I’m quite pleased to say that I found a company that makes Custom Storage Sheds. The company is Gazebo Creations and they are located in Pennsylvania.

Now I haven’t gone looking around at many other sites that sell sheds, but I can say that there is a much wider selection of storage shed types at Gazebo Creations than there are at Home Depot and the beauty of ordering a shed from Gazebo Creations is the fact that you can fully customize your storage shed and have it built to order. I can also say that even once you’ve customized a shed it appears that the price is lower than a comparable shed at Home Depot.

All you need to do is click on the link to create your own shed and follow the step by step directions. The first page lets you decide which size of shed you want. The sizes range from 6 x 6 feet to 12 x 16 feet. Since we don’t have much extra space I clicked on the 6′ x6′ option.

On the next page you’ll be give a choice of siding materials. The choices range from Dura-temp siding, Vinyl siding, Cedar lap siding, cedar tongue and groove and pine tongue and groove. I choose the cedar tongue and groove as I love the look of cedar and I know it holds up fairly well to the elements.

Once you’ve decided what materials will be used to construct the frame and outside of your shed you’ll be taken to a page where you can select additional options such as what type of flooring will be inside the shed, whether your shed will have no windows or more than one window, what type of roof shingles to use and what color of shingles to use, and finally, you’ll be able to select the style of door you’d like to have on your shed and if you’d like an additional door.

There are a number of other additional options to choose from as well such as the addition of window flower boxes, vents, gutters, taller walls, skylights and so on. By requesting any of these extra options you’ll truly be creating a unique shed.

Once you are happy with the shed that you’ve created you can decide whether your shed should be shipped assembled, or pre-assembled. The very bottom of the page shows your selection and updates as you customize your shed with the various options. When you are ready you can request a shipping quote for the shed that you’ve just created.

See isn’t that easy?

There are also a number of shed packages you can choose from. I presume these are popular styles that have been selected time and time again in the past by clients so they’ve made it easy for us to just pick a shed that’s already been fully customized.

I’m going to have to show my husband this site and the shed that I just created with all the options that I added before even thinking about placing an order, but you never know, I may soon have my own gazebocreations.com custom shed.

If you’d like a storage shed why don’t you visit the site and click on the create a custom shed link to see what you can come up with for your yard. If you purchase a shed from Gazebo Creations I’m certain you’ll be pleased with how nice they look.





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A true prince of a rose

August 12, 2007 by Tricia

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Prince Napoleon Rose

Prince napoleon is an antique rose. This one is supposed to be a climber but it’s never grown more than six or seven feet tall. I’m not complaining since it’s often lush with beautifully scent flowers.

This rose is also quite hardy. It often has almost fully green branches in late winter and early spring when the snow melts so I have very little to do with it in the way of pruning off winter damaged growth.

I love this rose.

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Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Entertainment, Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Antique Rose, beautiful, climbing rose, flower, flowers, garden, Gardening, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, hardy, Love, old rose, photo, photos, plants, Prince Napoleon Rose, rose, scent, sunday, winter

A rose with it’s own sunrise

August 8, 2007 by Tricia

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Morden Sunrise Rose

I can see why this rose is called Morden Sunrise. The inside of the bloom looks like the rising sun doesn’t it?

The weather was cool enough in July that this rose actually started to set rose hips! I plucked them all off so we’ll get another round of blooms or two. Certainly this heat wave that we’re currently going through should wake this lovely rose up again and make it bloom it’s pretty little head off.

Filed Under: Gardening, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: bloom, blooms, bright rose, July, Morden Sunrise, photo, photos, rose, sunrise, weather, Wordless Wednesday

It feels like I’m walking on a toothache …

August 7, 2007 by Tricia

Well guess what? I got my gardening done. Or pretty much done.

Chris was puttering around outside yesterday evening. He was supposed to be doing one small thing then he was going to come back inside let me know he was done and then we’d go out and start working on putting compost and mulch down on the garden beds.

Well he puttered for two hours and by the time he finally came back inside it was at least 8 pm. So that’s when I went out and started working in the garden.

We returned inside at 3:30 am!

Yes I am a midnight gardener. Yes I am an extreme gardener.

The only problem was that when I took my shoe off I could barely walk on my left foot. It felt like what I’d assume walking on a toothache would feel like. Every step brought tears to my eyes.

Remember I said I’d injured both my feet in the past and that I thought the humidity was finally making them ache? Broken bones, sprains, strains and oh yeah a torn posterior tibialis tendon count as some of the past injuries. So the foot that was hurting like it’s never hurt before was the one that had had the torn tendon a few years ago. That was a gardening accident from overuse! I literally ripped the tendon while planting roses for 14 hours and didn’t know how bad I’d hurt myself until two days later!

My back hurts too … and yeah my stomach/abdomen is still aching as well.

Who says gardening is passive???

I guess you could say I’m a lump of pain today.

But the gardens done!

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Simple flowers – Simply beautiful

August 5, 2007 by Tricia

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Blue Gentian

Blue Gentian Gentiana septemfida

I’ve been slow to get out and take photos of my blooming plants but the other day I went out for an hour and came back in with 279 photos! All but 4 were keepers.

The photo above is of blue Gentian. It’s a simple flower that blooms once or twice a year. It’s buds are interesting swirled cone shapes and then they open up into these delicate flowers.

The flowers above have a companion. Did you notice the ant?

Musk Mallow Malva moschata

Musk Mallow Malva moschata

The flower above is called Musk Mallow. It’s a North American native plant.

It’s very easy to grow, very hardy and as you can see it produces small delicate beautiful flowers. What more could you ask for in a plant?

Oh I know … did you know that you can eat the flowers and leaves of the musk mallow? The plant even has medicinal properties as well. I also believe that the root of the first flower, gentian is edible. See I grow a lot of plants that are not only beautiful, but edible as well.

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