Sometimes it takes a village to find your next satisfying read. That's why we were delighted when Shepherd.com asked us to write a roundup of our favorite plant-related books according to a theme of our choice. In case you missed it, the book lists on Shepherd...
The pergola was one of my big spring projects. While brainstorming pergola ideas for our new patio and garden, I knew it needed to be cozy but airy, a place to hang out, eat, work, and host dinner parties while enjoying the shade endowed by...
Nasturtiums have whimsically scattered themselves across the sunny half of my new garden. (Details on that — my new place — coming soon. Today we're just making nasturtium pesto.) This plant has a way of doing that — whimsically scattering itself when isn't unrolling a...
Every summer, mosquitos descend on our yards in both San Diego and LA. Butane-powered repellents actually work somewhat and those tall incense sticks...
When we started cooking with edible blooms, marigold flowers were among of the first we learned we could eat. So...
I would love to be a houseplant goddess. But the size of my windows and crisp square footage of my indoor space have other plans. Can't say I haven't tried: bird of paradise, philodendron 'Lickety Split' now reclassified as a Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum, a variegated rubber...
If you bought a plant during the last 60 years from a grocery store, hardware store, big box, or a range of nurseries across the country, there's a good chance it came from Costa Farms. The Miami-based company is one of the biggest horticultural growers...
POST-EVENT UPDATE: There was a lot of rehearsing of the word Schlumbergera over and over again on walks, but the event went off like a dream. Ryan did an edible flowers window box and Chantal filled hers with blooming holiday cactus. Check out the live recording! Folks....
Like lots of bloggers, we get some out-of-left-field emails. Many of these messages assume we sell plants — from aeoniums to elkhorns to ZZs. (We don't. But we do sell the vertical gardening gamechanger that is SkyPots.) But one email stuck with us: In June...
"When you live your life truthfully, you give permission to everyone else around you to do the same." We weren't ready for this wisdom projectile from Patty Morrissey. It was a late morning in late September and The Horticult was in New York for Better Homes...
