Gardening 9 to 5: The Office Gets a Plant Makeover!
We’ve long suspected it...
01 April, 2015
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Intense Inflorescence: Day Tripping at the Annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show
Sultry and complicated and scandalously expressive, the orchid has a way of bringing out bee-like behavior in even the most sensible of people. (And on the flip side, making bees act a bit like delusion-prone human beings.) And friends, did we ever swarm swarm swarm...
19 March, 2015
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Bromeliads in the Bronx: A Visit to the New York Botanical Garden
Set on 250 acres and home to one million living plants, the New York Botanical Garden is one of our Happy Places even (especially!) during the winter. When the season’s flinging its worst, the paperbark maple near the Seasonal Walk, its trunk peeling in shades...
26 February, 2015
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For Your Consideration: We’ve Been Nominated for a ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ Blogger Award!
Ladies and gentlemen of the Academy the blog-reading public: Better Homes and Gardens has named us one of its top 10 garden bloggers of 2015. It was a huge surprise, and we’re stoked! You can vote for the #1 spot right...
19 February, 2015
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Botany of Desire: 10 Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day With the Plant Lover in Your Life
My co-Hort Ryan and I are feeling rosy right now as we get ready for our (get ready for this:) twelfth Valentine’s Day together this weekend. Back in 2004 we did the prix fixe thing with steak frites at Jules, followed by wandering in and...
10 February, 2015
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Form and Function: At Home With Jennifer Gilbert Asher of TerraSculpture and TerraTrellis
You might remember the interview we did two summers ago with a design hero of ours, the luminous Jennifer Gilbert Asher. She's the artist and co-owner of TerraSculpture studio; she creates modern abstract sculpture and also designs functional sculpture for studio offshoot TerraTrellis. We love Jennifer's work because...
04 February, 2015
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Postcard From the Sonoran: Tackling Desert and Design in Phoenix
Today I start a new job (!) and have my first big deadline of the semester, and also — what’s that? — Ryan has just informed me that the Super Bowl is happening this Sunday. (If your yard isn’t covered under two feet of snow...
28 January, 2015
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Branches of Government: Tour the Leafy, Prickly Oasis of the U.S. Botanic Garden
Just a few steps from where the State of the Union took place this week, you will find rainforest blooms, desert cacti, Midatlantic natives and Jurassic Era cycads growing together in fragrant, productive harmony. (Productive harmony in DC. Imagine!) We recently visited the U.S. Botanic...
22 January, 2015
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Where Fern Meets Fashion: The Secret-Garden Installations of Satoshi Kawamoto
Sometimes you don’t realize how starved a space is for plants until you throw one into the mix. (Where have you been all my life? said the bookshelf to the pothos vine.) Do that, and the next thing you know, you’re installing a whole avalanche...
16 January, 2015
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Pansies on Pennsylvania: The Winter Street Flowers of Washington, DC
It’s great to be back from winter recess. We took a long one this year — saw our families in DC and New York, and today I finish my third (out of five!) residencies at Warren Wilson College, where I’m getting my MFA in fiction...
12 January, 2015
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