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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...