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Enjoy The Outdoors With Jane

by on ‎03-06-2013 01:51 PM

So - I was called in for a meeting a few months back and was told QVC wanted to do a gardening show with me.  I started laughing and then stopped when I realized they were serious. Gardening?? Me??  Seriously??  Are you sure you didn’t mean Carolyn Gracie?!  I mean I am far from a gardener, even a good one, but then they said, “but, you love to entertain outdoors, you love to tell stories about gardening with your Dad, and how your Mom loved certain flowers”…..so I said ok, sure!


We are calling it, Enjoy The Outdoors With Jane and we are asking the experts to help us make the outdoors decorative and inviting and have plants that are (to quote the Roberta's team) "too dumb to die!" Honestly, when I started decorating our back deck with solar lights, we started spending more time outdoors. I love putting them in containers filled with plants, because they are pretty during the day and when the sun goes down. It’s so cool that now you can walk from your home that is accented with so many pretty things, and go outside where it is just as finished. I especially like the way mats and rugs finish the space outdoors, and did I say I am obsessed with solar lights?!



My Dad always had an amazing vegetable garden. Some of my earliest memories are gardening with Dad. I know we will never grow the tomatoes like he did, but we do basil and tomatoes in a little garden outside the back door and I think of him when we pick the sun-ripened tomatoes.



My youngest daughter Deirdre seems to have inherited the gardening gene.    



Flowers also meant so much to my Mom, so the daffodils, lilacs, and peonies of spring and summer bring her back to me too. And my late father-in-law from Ireland was a landscaper, so my husband honors his memory with beautiful flowers and shrubs. See that’s my other secret, a husband who loves to garden! 



So get ready to share memories, to learn, to find something new, and enjoy the outdoors with me in our first show ever on Saturday March 9th at 10pm eastern!


-Jane