Home Depot’s Garden Party in Dallas
Scott and I have a lot of strengths. We’ve rearranged floor plans, painted at least a dozen walls, installed wood floors and have done our own plumbing and electric work. But I will be the very first to admit we both have black thumbs. If I’m being accurate it’s more like- what do we want to spend our time/energy/resources on? Creating pretty front yard landscaping, or having a bathroom with working plumbing? 🙂 Working plumbing ALWAYS wins in case you were wondering.
So needless to say, I was pretty ecstatic when a representative from Home Depot contacted me a few weeks back to invite us to join them for their stop in Dallas on their Spring Garden Tour.
Ya’ll. If anyone knows how to throw a garden party, it’s Home Depot. We had so much fun! There were arts and crafts, food, drinks, prizes, fantastic conversations, garden tool demonstrations and—of course—beautiful plants. 🙂
The weather happened to be absolutely perfect- it was warm with a light breeze and it seemed all of the city was eager to learn about gardening! After chatting with some friendly event organizers, we made our way to our first stop, which happened to be one of my favorites! We each got to decorate our own terra cotta pot. Of course we have had a little practice (here and here) so I think ours turned our pretty awesome.
As you can see, we both chose encouraging messages for our plants. 🙂 Luckily we were provided with some pretty awesome herbs from Bonnie Plants. I chose basil while Scott went with cilantro. I’m happy to report that so far, both herbs are doing great. 🙂
There was also a really neat display of a raised garden bed. We had one in our Richardson house…it made me a bit nostalgic!
I made a new friend which I dubbed Gnomie. Scott and I got to snap a photo with him. Sadly, he had to continue on the Garden Party tour, but I will treasure our time together in my heart. 🙂
One of the highlights for me at the party was getting to chat with the ladies from Southern Living Plant Collection. They were there sharing some fun party and DIY ideas. See that metallic centerpiece on the table below? It’s actually a wine rack spray painted gold. I love how they placed the flowers in tiny glass vases- such a fun centerpiece idea! Of course I was totally obsessed with their plate setting and gold flatware too! 😉
And the food. Ya’ll. Soooo tasty! Local chef/blogger Alta from Tasty Eats at Home did an absolutely incredible job of creating some fantastic recipes with fresh ingredients. There was chicken yakatori, grilled carrots and my favorite- grilled yellow squash with feta and basil. To wash it all down? Lemonade with basil and cucumber. So refreshing!
So who is surprised that right after leaving the Garden Party we went into the store and bought stuff to help fix our front yard up a bit? I felt so inspired. After leaving the store we headed home and spent 6 hours doing yard work. Of course I have some pictures to share soon. Anyone else feeling inspired? Let’s DO this!
Thanks to Home Depot for having us out for this fabulous event! To see if your city is on the Spring Garden Party Tour, find the list here.
Tania Griffis is an accomplished writer, blogger, and interior designer with a Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She started her popular blog, Run to Radiance, in 2011, demonstrating her design expertise through the personal remodeling of six houses to millions of readers across the globe.
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Looks like the event was a success, I’m excited to see how your yard turns out 🙂
Thanks Kenneth…I’m excited to see how it turns out too! 🙂
Looks like a good party (with delish food!). I totally have a black thumb, too :-/ We went to Home Depot this weekend to buy plants, I got intimidated, and we left 😛
Jennifer…totally understand. It’s super intimidating! I need a garden expert to come teach me!
so fun!!! i love that raised garden bed! and sweet gnomie. 🙂
Me too…I need both in my yard stat!
What an awesome event! Wish I could have been there to learn about some planting techniques. I wonder if they will have any more of these! Though, through these pictures I feel like I was there myself (minus the delicious food that I want to try!).
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It was super fun…hopefully i can figure out how to plant something and write a post on it soon!
That looks like so much fun! That lemonade sounds amazing!
It was so good Rachel! I need to recreate it!
Looks like you had a great time! Sounds like a very fun event. Your terra cotta pots are very cute!
Thank you so much!
Hi Tania!
I work for Bonnie Plants doing social media. Glad to see you had fun at the garden party! Super jealous that I wasn’t there!
We have some great DIYs over on our website (http://bit.ly/BonnieHowTo) if you can’t stop that gardening/planting itch. It’s hard to shake once you’ve caught it …
Which it seems you might have 😉
Can’t wait to share your herb wall with our Facebook peeps! So cute. Glad I discovered your blog!
— Amanda
Hi Amanda-
Thanks so much for stopping by- excited to explore the Bonnie Plants site more!
Oh how fun! I almost attempted some gardening over the weekend, but I’m glad I didn’t because we got more snow today!
But I can’t wait to see what you accomplished in your yard 🙂
Noooo! I thought we were done with the cold weather and snow?!?! It was in the 30s here in Dallas this week. What is happening?!
Looks like a fun time. I love how energizing and uplifting gardening can be.
Oh Char…if only i thought gardening was “uplifting”. It’s more stressful to me…but maybe one day I will learn!
ah, the garden party looks like a lot of fun – a perfect way to spend a day with your husband. i’m going to have to see if they have something like that here – i’m wanting to do a hanging garden but have a similarly black thumb :/
I think airplants and cactus might be my saving grace. And succulents even thought i killed my last one. Basically anything that can live for weeks with no water. 🙂