“There’s something about airplants that’s charismatic,” says Josh Rosen, the man behind L.A.-based Airplantman. His minimalist designs let tillandsias’ freak flags fly. “They have a personality. Like the Tillandsia bulbosa — they look like they can get up and walk away.” [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] Josh Rosen...
Around our house, persimmons — so sassy and festive, and with a sweet, naturally spiced flavor — are the fruit we associate most with the holidays. It started a few years ago when a friend gave us a bag of them from her family's tree...
Boarding happened in record time. The first rows were called at 10 AM, and all passengers were boarded — with seatbacks and tray tables in their fully upright and locked positions — by 10:12. “This isn’t the flight you want to miss,” the gate agent said as she scanned...
Hey! How was your Thanksgiving? Right now we're writing to you from among the air-sweetening plumerias, fiery crotons, ti and taro of Kauai, Hawaii. Oh yes. Papayas for breakfast, purple Molokai potatoes with coconut for lunch. Wild chickens everywhere. Fifty gigs on Ryan's camera and counting. So...
July 2022 update: We're using some new colors and experimenting with a different (and exciting) shape of concrete block plant stands. Check out the latest post. “What is garden art to you?” That was the theme of the night during this week’s #GardenChat, the lively Twitter convo...
To selfie or not to selfie? We don't know; we’d rather take pictures of plants. But it was across Instagram’s sea of selfies that we forged a friendship with a brilliant gardener named Warren Keller, whose photos depict the joy, verve and drama of gardening and plant...
When I come home from work feeling flu-ish, only a homemade yerba mate latte and YouTube in bed will do. My new visual comfort food? British gardening shows. The tree spirits of the internet have been serving up some excellent medicine lately. This week Ryan and...
Whenever one of our favorite “plant guys” sends us an email saying a crop is at its best and most abundant and that we should come see it, we drop what we’re doing and head for the action. That’s exactly what we did when Kalim...
Our friends on the East Coast have been reporting their first encounters with the whipping wind of November, and we’ve been responding...
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