The Project Beautiful Roundup this month is for the color Brown. This month we have some bloggers including Blooming Secrets, writing about adding brown flowers and plants to your garden. One garden blogger is going to tell us how to turn our brown garden green and another article highlights the many shades of brown.  We also have several bloggers sharing their yummy recipes.    

Let’s start out with all of the recipes. Teri McNeal Schuler of the Freshman Cook, shares a yummy recipe for Acorn Sugar Cookies. Teri gives us 3 different ways to decorate the cookies (sprinkles, nuts & chocolate heath pieces). All of them look fantastic. If you give them a try, let us know how you make out.

Kim Bush, from Day to Day Adventures, shares her recipe for Freezer Chimichangas. Learn her tricks for making Chimis and how she heats them ahead of time for trips. Special note they are low card and healthy!

Terri Steffes’ from Our Good Life is making Homemade Cough Drops. It is great to have this recipe for this time of year. Now you will know all the ingredients that are in your cough drop if you make these. I will have to try making these this year.

Now, let’s move onto Gardening.

Karen Creel from the Garden Chick tells us how she is going to plant Cover Crops this year, so her brown garden will turn green. Her post is packed with great information on the benefits of planting cover crops and which ones you might want to try planting. Her article is really interesting, be sure to read it.

Lee Miller writes the blog for A Guide To Northeastern Gardening.  Her post is titled, The Changing Garden – The Many Shades of Brown. Lee writes about how a garden can still be beautiful even after the prime of autumn. There are many great photos in her post. Lee has also recently published a book titled, A Guide to Northeastern Gardening: Journeys of a Garden Designer Zones 3-9. If you need a holiday gift, for your favorite gardener, consider this one. It is available on Amazon. 
 
For our roundup, Lynne Cherot of Sensible Gardening and Living wrote Chocolate Brown Gardening. While Brown might not be an obvious color for flowers, Lynne highlights some great flowers you might consider adding to your garden. She also has great photos of these flowers.

Last is our article on called Brown, The Natural Color. Learn how to use brown in your garden. We discuss brown flowers and foliage you can use in the garden throughout the year.