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Your eyes deserve to view beauty. I hope Fred Gonsowski Garden Home helps to turn your vision, into a reality.

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 510,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading

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***Happy Holidays Everyone***

To all of my readers… Wishing you the Merriest of Christmases, the Happiest of Hanukkahs, the most Joyous of Kwanzaas and the best of everything in the New Year! Fred Gonsowski Here are a few photos of this year’s holiday … Continue reading

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Interior Decorating Ideas for a Small House, Condominium or Apartment

A lot of people live in small spaces. It might be a first apartment, a starter home, or the cost of housing in a large city might make a person, even with a large paycheck, have to reside in a … Continue reading

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Today I awoke to seeing my blog has passed the 750,000 mark for Page Views/Articles Read

Today September 13, 2014, at 7:26AM Eastern Time, I saw that my blog has passed the Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand point (really 750,706) for page views/articles read. If you are one of my followers, you have most-likely noticed that I’ve … Continue reading

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One of my Decorating Posts has been Featured on Redbook Magazine’s website….Redbookmag.com

Hi there Everyone. I’m soo excited. Recently the people at Redbook Magazine got in touch with me because they liked my post titled The Right height of Table Lamp for your End Table, and asked if it could be part … Continue reading

Posted in Interior Decorating Principles, Uncategorized | 19 Comments

My visit to the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, NY

Located in central New York, one mile north of the Village of Cooperstown, on the west side of Otsego Lake is the Farmers’ Museum. The museum is sited at 5775 State Highway 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326, which is on land … Continue reading

Posted in Garden Visits (Road Trips), The Summer Garden | 9 Comments

A Look at My Garden here at Whimsey Hill House (June 2014)

June is a transitional and busy month in the garden. The many hundreds of daffodils that I’ve planted years ago (there used to be over a thousand) have finished blooming, and the perennials have all come up and are doing … Continue reading

Posted in Fred's Garden at Whimsey Hill House, The Spring Garden | 10 Comments

A different kind of container to plant Hen and Chicks in

A few years ago I started collecting different varieties of hen and chicks (Sempervivum). I think I took interest in them because I had already planted the “big stuff” like bushes and trees, as well as all kinds of perennials … Continue reading

Posted in Roses, Peonies, Tulips, etc, The Spring Garden | 3 Comments

Martha was there and so was I, TRADE SECRETS CT. Sharon Connecticut

Each May on the Saturday and Sunday following Mother’s Day, plant and garden antiques lovers from everywhere journey to picturesque north-west Connecticut for Trade Secrets. Trade secrets is a two-day event to benefit Women’s Support Services of Sharon, Ct., which … Continue reading

Posted in Garden Visits (Road Trips), The Spring Garden | 7 Comments

An Easy to Make and Inexpensive Trellis for Clematis, Morning Glories and other Vines

A few years ago I was invited to friends’ house for supper. Before the couple started the barbecue, they gave me a quick tour of their garden. The husband had started a collection of clematis vines and planted six or … Continue reading

Posted in The Spring Garden | 16 Comments