It's always been our mission to help you grow more plants in your space, no matter how big or small it may be. So when Garden Gate magazine asked us to participate in this year's Grow Better Garden Summit, we jumped at the chance to...
Updated March 6th, 2021: Order your vertical gardening kits today at SkyPots.com. It's been six years now since we published the original DIY project for Whole Foods's Dark Rye magazine. The project didn't even have a name at the time. Better Homes & Gardens then picked...
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...
Lately we've been shooting less with our big camera and more with our smartphones. I've even recently photographed entire blog posts without breaking out the DSLR — something I wouldn't have dreamed of even two years ago. Today, the rear camera on the iPhone 6s shoots...
My mom is an artist, a grandmother, an insurance agent and a gardener. I've always appreciated my mom for all her talents and enthusiasms, but it has only been over the past six years (since I've taken a more profound interest in plants) that I've...
Sure, we can grow camellias in Southern California, but our camellias will never burst against a tangy orange bald cypress, and you won't find them lingering beneath the edges of ancient live oaks draped with Spanish moss. Our daytime visit to Airlie Gardens in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, preceded the evening...
A long time ago in a garden far, far away...
This year we've been going up...
It's pretty clear that we enjoy teching out our terrain. Exhibit A: Our screen-filled Super Bowl garden party. Exhibit B, our outdoor robot heater. Figures, considering we blog about the outdoors, and our day jobs involve engineering (me) and media (Chantal). So when we heard about a device that goes right...
This spring, we've been busy changing up a few things in our garden — and jumping into some fresh new design projects! You may remember the raised beds we built out of concrete blocks last October. The half-buried and leveled blocks were a quick and inexpensive way to bring...