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How to Easily Achieve a Cottage Garden Style

January 13, 2022 · Gardening

Cottage Garden

Creating a dreamy cottage garden style can be easier to achieve than you might think! It can be easily achieved either in pots or planted into the landscape. No garden is too big or too small for a cottage garden….

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How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden

December 23, 2021 · Gardening

Attract pollinators to your garden

Curious how you can help to attract more pollinators to your garden? Well, here are five easy steps to make your garden more inviting to your friendly pollinator neighbors!

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Dahlia Tubers: How to Succeed at Planting and Harvesting

December 22, 2021 · Bulb Care, Gardening

This post has tips and tricks on how to care for your dahlia tubers. My history with planting and harvesting dahlia tubers is bittersweet, partly due to the fact that I failed in several ways with this beautiful plant. When…

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5 Beautiful Climbing Roses and Vines for Your Arbor

December 16, 2021 · Gardening, Pruning

This post is all about beautiful climbing roses and vines to help make your garden pop! One of my all time favorite vertical climbers are roses! Two years ago I planted my first climbing roses (as bare root roses-meaning no…

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First Snow of the Year in New England 2021

December 9, 2021 · Gardening, My Garden Updates

I was incredibly excited yesterday when I looked out my window during a break at work to see tiny snowflakes waltzing their way through the sky. In all my excitement I ran down the stairs, threw on my jacket and…

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How To Care For Planted Tulips in Pots

December 8, 2021 · Bulb Care, Gardening

Planted tulips in pots

How Do You Care For Planted Tulips in Pots? Dreaming of planted tulips in pots? Well, if your goal is to bring an English cottage right into your own garden, then you’ve come to the right place! Nothing says a…

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How to Easily Identify and Prune A Hydrangea

December 1, 2021 · Gardening, Pruning

How to prune a hydrangea

Want To Learn How To Easily Identify and Prune A Hydrangea? So you want to learn how to identify and prune a hydrangea? Well, hydrangeas are great for a beginner gardener to learn from as they are very hardy. They…

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A New England Gardens Charming Transformation- Before & After

November 28, 2021 · Gardening, My Garden Updates

Well hello there! Kate here, please enjoy seeing the progress I have made transforming our front/side lawn into a garden over the course of a year. I have no formal training, just by watching Mom in the garden growing up…

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A quiet winter week spent sowing seeds indoors and potting up early spring plants. This video is less about doing and more about being: moving gently, noticing small moments, and letting winter be a season of calm work. I hope it brings you a little warmth and ease. 🤍🌿

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Thank you for all the love, patience, and thoughtful messages while I took a step back. This season has been about slowing down, healing, and practicing what I believe in, living gently and intentionally. If you’re feeling called to pause and fill your cup, I hope you give yourself that permission. I’m so grateful for this community. 🤍

P.S. I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of what I was up to this past fall. I'm feeling ready to enter the next garden season with renewed optimism. 

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Welcome to BirchSalt! My name is Kate and I am a nurse by background turned gardening enthusiast. I take inspiration from all around me in the great state of Maine. Hence how the BirchSalt motto was born, "Inspiration From Land & Sea".

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