This post contains affiliate links, which means we receive a small commission from purchases on the products we recommend below. Thanks for helping us grow. With leaves shaped like deer antlers, the staghorn fern is one part plant, one part trophy art. It's flora imitating fauna!...
Clearly, clearly, we’ve got museums on the brain. And that’s okay — where else can you wander around for a day, let yourself off the leash mentally, and entertain all sorts of vivid ideas? Last month we spent an afternoon at the Los Angeles County Museum...
Over on Reddit, Passiflora is arguably the site's most asked-about plant. What’s not to obsess over? Its flowers are a collision of the eccentric and the symmetrical, suggesting outer-space gardens, the gears of a disco stopwatch. (Not for nothing is it called “clock flower” in Israel and...
It’s back! The show that puts the “culture” in horticulture, Art Alive is taking place this weekend at San Diego Museum of Art. The exhibition will feature 120 inventive, seriously sublime floral interpretations paired with famous works of art. You might remember our recap of last year’s festivities....
Last weekend we headed up the coast in search of indigenous plants, and were amazed by the colorful diversity we found. The low-lying chaparral we expected was punctuated by shocking, shoulder-high clouds of wild lilac (Ceanothus) and flannel bush blooming yellow, and one of the...
Time for Round Two of Tussie-Mussie Tuesday! Inspired by the Victorian language of flowers, we’re fixing up sweet and simple bouquets that you can give to the beloved buds in your life. Our last bouquet was all about romance, ranunculus and Mary J. Blige. Today, though...
Happy equinox, everyone! Here in Southern California, early spring means wildflowers, and lots of them: hillsides dense with blue flax and lupine, and phone-in hotlines updated weekly with the state of the poppies. The excitement is understandable — how many other things feel so untamed...
When I turned 16, I got a copy of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda for my birthday. In those days I was just getting into yoga — contemplating boys while in bridge pose — as I tried to branch out beyond my number-one concern...
Trendiness aside, our love for the macaron can be traced to its fulfillment of the three Cs: crispiness, cream and color. Delicate shells piped with flavorful fillings, these iconic French cookies are in the middle of a revival, and we’re along for the ride. We were...
Can you believe spring's only 23 days away? It’s true that we didn’t get Polar Vortexed — aside from that time near Asheville. But even we are counting the days until March 20, 9:57 AM PDT, vernal equinox, the moment the Earth rocks into a perfectly...