Last year, I went to Copenhagen for the first time. It was late May and the city was at peak bloom. (I also ate and ate and ate, but that's another story.) Rolling our bags from the Nørreport metro station to Ibsens Hotel, it felt like...
Got houseplants? Wanna put them together in a fun way? Over a glass of wine or two? Well, we'll show you how to do that in our upcoming, in-person workshop! We're teaming up with The Sill to lead an evening where we'll plant—you guessed it—window boxes. Our...
When we first set out to write How to Window Box, we wanted to turn the traditional window box model upside down. Or at least, knock it over...
Happy Holidays! In the original La Jolla garden, the fernleaf cactus is reaching out to hug everybody, and in the LA garden, the 'Debutante' camellias are just starting to tickle the skies opposite the Meyer lemons that are almost bursting off the branches. [caption id="attachment_25852" align="alignnone"...
Ah, autumn in New York—there's a reason Billie sang about it. Especially those first few crisp days! It's a feeling you wish you could bottle up and uncork all year long as needed, like, say, when the February snow won't shovel itself, or when you're...
Last fall, I (Chantal) moved to a new place. It's in LA's no-longer-so-hidden gem of Atwater Village, which Barbara Bestor in Bohemian Modern calls "a funny little flat neighborhood just across from Silver Lake." My place has a garden out back with four lofty camellia trees, a...
Here’s something you may already know: Window boxes can be expensive! Not only that, but finding a high-quality (i.e. rot-resistant), perfectly sized window box for your small indoor or outdoor space may be a bigger challenge than actually growing the plants. When we first set...
Hosted every fall in New York by Better Homes & Gardens, the Stylemaker conference brings together lifestyle bloggers, Instagrammers, photographers, writers, consultants and other creative types from around the world. True to form, it was a day packed with illuminating talks and crowd-pleasing dishes. And...
That sound you hear? That's our very loud sigh of relief as we wrap up edits on our very. First. Book. Published by Clarkson Potter (also home to Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, David Chang and Chrissy Teigen, NBD, and an imprint of Penguin Random House), How to...
You know that feeling a garden can give you—when you're wandering around and suddenly you have to remind yourself what town/city you're even in? That's the Huntington. Just outside Los Angeles, its campus encompasses a library with more than 7 million manuscripts like the papers...