Video: Feeding Evergreens with Skye Hamilton 🌲

As more homes and developments begin to pop up around her once wide-open landscape, Skye Hamilton is turning to nature for a simple, beautiful solution—privacy trees. After years of farmland views, she’s been thoughtfully planting evergreens around her property to create a natural screen. Now that those trees have spent a full year establishing strong root systems, it’s time for the next step: feeding them for healthy, vigorous growth. Since evergreens put on much of their growth in late spring and early summer, Skye shares why this season is the perfect time to fertilize—and how using a slow-release, organic fertilizer can help keep trees lush, resilient, and thriving for years to come.

3 Tips for Fertilizing Privacy Trees:

• Time it right: Fertilize in late spring to early summer when evergreens are actively growing.
• Feed the roots: Apply fertilizer around the drip line to reach the root zone effectively.
• Use slow-release organics: Choose products like Espoma Organic Evergreen-tone® or Tree-tone® for steady, long-lasting nutrition.

With the right timing and a slow-release organic fertilizer, privacy trees can grow strong, healthy, and full—bringing beauty, structure, and natural screening to your landscape for years to come.

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How To Propagate A Pothos

Pothos plants aren’t just low-maintenance houseplants to own, they’re also some of the easiest to propagate! Propagation is a fun way to grow new pothos from your existing pothos plants, while also helping them stay healthy, full, and looking their best. And, since it requires no special tools or skills, it’s a virtually free way to grow your plant collection! We have, no joke, generated at least 12-15 free pothos plants using this method! You can even use them as gifts for friends and neighbors.

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100+ Gender Neutral Baby Names

In my lifelong quest to name everyone’s baby, I’ve posted a few lists of baby girl names and baby boy names, but what about names that defy easy categorization? Gender-neutral or unisex names are growing in popularity, and for lots of good reasons. Many see them as more inclusive, equitable, and adaptable. Some find them modern, cool, or even edgy. The rise in gender-neutral names also makes it easier for parents to use a family name or other sentimental or beloved name, regardless of their baby’s gender.

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Our 7 Favorite Things To Do In Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg

This year, we took our kids to the land of Dolly Parton, aka the Tennessee Smokies, for our recent Spring Break. It was a jam-packed week of family fun, food, and there was even a dusting of snow! There’s SOOOO much to do in this area of Tennessee – you’ve got Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park all right there. So we thought we’d hit the highlights and share our 7 favorite things that we did there. Why 7? Well, it’s smack dab in the middle of the numbers 9 to 5…

We traveled with another family, so we had 4 adults and 6 kids with us, ranging from ages 11 to 20. So all of these activities are tween and teen approved! We can’t speak specifically to younger kids like toddlers, but I think you’ll see that most of what we’ve listed below would be fun for the whole family.

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A Mid-Renovation Update (And Video Tour!)

I’ve shared a lot of real-time renovation updates on Instagram Stories, but here’s a quick catch-up blog post for anyone thirsty for the longer format (we know we’ll love having these posts to look back on). We’re about 7 weeks into our biggest renovation in over 5 years, and the house pretty much looks as chaotic as expected. Who remembers our mantra from 2012: “the middle makes no sense“? Over the past month and a half, walls have been busted open, ceilings have been torn out, and entirely new rooms have been framed. So… lots of progress, but lots of dust… and a lot more to do. Did I mention it’s dusty?

The easiest way to catch up is to watch the video below, where you can hear me yapping about every space, what has been done, and what’s next on the agenda.

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Spring Break Destinations for Families

Planning a family spring break trip can be challenging – especially if you’re looking for somewhere warm, unique, and not overrun with other spring breakers. But ever since we moved full-time to the unofficial spring break capital of the United States (aka: Florida’s Emerald Coast), we’ve become well-practiced in finding unique spring break destinations. So here are 8 places that we have loved visiting for family vacations.

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100 One Syllable Boy Names

I can’t give you 100 one-syllable girl names without a list for boys too! And, well, I did marry one of the most popular monosyllabic names of all time: John. Short boy names have been popular for centuries. Think Gods (Zeus), Gospels (Mark, Luke), Founding Fathers (George, James, Ben), all the way to modern TV characters (Ross, Zack, Bart). They can feel strong, timeless, charming, unique, or all of the above. So today I’m sharing 100 of my favorites.

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