This adorable mini garden from Melissa at The Inspired Room was assembled in five minutes flat, and makes for a pretty spring accent for your dining table or windowsill.

If you're lucky enough to have some outdoor space, now's the time to start putting it to use. Or at least lay the groundwork. Once Memorial Day rolls around, you'll want that little outdoor escape, even if it's just a fire escape or front stoop. These five stores have great online catalogs to help you get started ... and you never even have to leave your living room.

Tulip season is upon us, and depending on where you are, it generally lasts about two weeks. Usually it starts sometime in mid to late April and ends in early May. If you ask me, the season for these brightly colored harbingers of spring is entirely too short. But it doesn't need to be. Here's how to extend the color riot. 

I have just a small sliver of a porch outside my apartment and that's the extent of my outdoor space. Luckily, there are plenty of vertical garden options to help me scratch my farming itch by utilizing little more than the brick wall. 

Just because we're done with Easter doesn't mean we're done with eggs — how about a little love for our feathery friends?

Whether you're not allowed to paint your walls or you just prefer a white backdrop, houseplants are a happy, portable, and landlord-friendly way to inject life and color into your home. 

Composting and recycling seem like straightforward systems, but as with most processes, there are shades of gray to the black and white designations of "plastic", "paper", and "glass".  

I'm a little late to the game of getting my spring seed orders in (if you hurry there is still time) and as usual I am trying to grow things that I either can't find in the grocery store or that I think will surprise and excite visitors to my kids' farmers market stand.  James Wong is providing excellent inspiration in my hunt.