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...
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...
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...
Our whiskey barrel pond has been feeling a little bit Monet, a little bit Midcentury Modern. It's our first season growing water lilies, and these amethyst blooms are STUNNAS. These Nymphaea 'Midnight' flowers are compact, about six inches in diameter, with stems that eek less than two inches...
Here’s the thing about our houseplants: We mostly keep them outside. We don’t have a lot of room indoors, so we’ll hang tropical plants from the north-facing eave outside our one-story home. It also helps that temperatures here don’t get that far below 50 in...
What colors do you associate most with fall? Here in our subtropical climate, we don’t get the level of fluorescent foliage we did growing up in the Northeast and Midatlantic — like the neon New England landscapes I saw last week while visiting friends in...
It only occurred to us after we received our wholesale order of 50 air plants that we had no place to put them! I had ordered the lot for my new acrylic air plant habitats (coming soon) — and I guess we got too excited...
We've been marking the weeks by what’s newest in bloom: snowy jade flowers signal early January, jasmine vines close the curtain on February...