Earlier this summer, I (Chantal, hi) spent a weekend in Seattle. I was there for the Slow Flowers Summit, a one-day mindmeld dedicated to U.S.-grown flowers and the people who farm, garden, and design with them. The SURF Incubator space had eye-popping views of the...
Dear readers, we’ve missed you. Thank you for your notes and your “Where the phlox are you?!” emails over the last few months. Yes, the blog was mostly quiet this last summer...
It's Shark Week, everybody! We're honoring this hallowed summer tradition by spotlighting our favorite garden chompers, carnivorous plants. Welcome...
Confession: Ryan and I attended the San Diego Succulent & Cactus Show & Sale, but we ended up completely missing the show. Why? Because we were busy buying every succulent in sight. We were not alone. Up and down the ten or so aisles under a dedicated tent in Balboa Park,...
Happy Solstice, Earthlings! Today is the first full day of summer, and the temps in our area have gotten the memo, with La Jolla reaching the 80s and Los Angeles sizzling up to 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Blazing hot like the solstitial sun is the aptly named Solandra maxima....
Gardening guides that are both comprehensive and portable — soup-to-nuts minus the Googling around — can be hard to come by. That's why we're holding on tight to Green Side Up, the new magazine from Meredith geared to gardeners starting out. Whether you're tending a balcony, rambling yard or a...
If this wasn't our first time using power tools in front of an audience...
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...
What's everyone up to this Memorial Day weekend? Right now we're prepping for our vertical gardening demo in LA (happening on Saturday — come! Here are the details) followed by QT with our friends and enjoying our SoCal surroundings. On that note, we'd like to...
When we first set out to build our vertical clay pot garden for Whole Foods Market, we half-jokingly said we'd take it on a world tour, starting with the balconies of our friends Jill and Tim. Well, we had no idea the places our pots would...