POST-EVENT UPDATE: It took a lot of rehearsing the word Schlumbergera over and over again on walks (thank you, masks), 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...
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...
While we were in New York last week, we stopped by The Sill’s Upper West Side garden center to lead a window box plant workshop. Our students were a dream—so curious and ready to plant, and in the end, proud of their creations. We were...
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...
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. You could call this...
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...
