Like a plant coming out of dormancy, the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show has returned after a three-year hiatus. This weekend — Friday March 10, Saturday March 11, and Sunday, March 12 — at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, wander through the thrills of the Orchidaceae...
For the last two and a half years, I've been working on a semi-secret project. Now I can talk about it! It's called Heavy Petal. We make cool tees for plant people — they're soft and made in the USA. Our graphic tees, as the...
A bottle of limoncello contains some contrasts. It looks like summer in a glass, but due to the ripening schedule of our lemon trees, we make it in late fall and winter. A limoncello recipe can take over a month to complete (and years to...
Concrete blocks are hard to beat, when it comes to DIY outdoor plant stands. They're cheap, they're sturdy, they introduce a sense of architecture to your outdoor space. Like we always say, "The higher the plant, the closer to gahh...
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 are whimsically scattered 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 it isn't unrolling an...
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...