We live in our parks, and our parks live in us. Parks are where we make loose appointments with friends, where we smooth out our nerves before job interviews, where we introduce our babies to the outside world, and the only place we’ll ever take...
Plants bring us bushels of joy every single day, but around this time of year our thoughts turn to the flora that terrify us. That's right: spooky plants. And we’re not just talking about the sight of our aphid-ravaged milkweed or a fast-moving touch-me-not. In honor of the...
Design sorceress/Greco-Roman disco gladiator Kelly Wearstler must have a gland that produces nothing but inspiration. We swim through images of her work all the time, but there’s one object in particular that we saw inside a Wearstler interior that has been stuck in our craw...
You could say that it's one of the very first important decisions we ever make in our lives, a high-stakes, “choose wisely” kind of childhood moment. We’re talking of course about picking out pumpkins every October: so much hinges on choosing a squash of the right...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you spend most of the year anxiously awaiting a crop from your garden, you will eventually be up to your eyebrows with that crop, scrambling for ways to eat it all. For some of our friends, it’s...
Holy moly, John Gidding is chilling on our balcony right now, was one thought that entered our minds last Saturday evening. The Santa Ana winds were swirling and we were onstage at the WestEdge Design Fair, in the midst of delivering a presentation about design,...
Horticulties, please forgive the light posting this week — we have been busy bees getting ready for our big reveal at the WestEdge Design Fair happening this Saturday afternoon. (You’re coming, right?!) Thankfully the design grind hasn't prevented us from noticing that the bird of paradise...
“I felt like I needed a detox from my life,” Yovana Mendoza explains early into our visit to the Hillcrest Farmer’s Market, moments before cracking open a ‘White Genoa’ fig in the most gorgeous way imaginable. “I was always a really big party girl. Alcohol,...
We met our neighbor Kimberly’s roses before we met Kimberly herself. They’re bright and big and perfumey, her roses, when they’re in bloom: flashes of apricot and salmon winding around the black fence that lines her yard. “Welcome home!” they’d cheer when we turned the...
It's official! We're teaming up with architect and designer (and star of HGTV's Curb Appeal) John Gidding to present at the WestEdge Design Fair on Saturday, October 5th at 5:30pm. Here's the official program listing. (Correction — the presentation will end around 6:15 PM): And we...
