Is there anyone out there who doesn’t remember their first drop of gin and tonic? Love it or not, it’s a singular experience for sure: the kick of quinine in the tonic, the gin’s vegetal blast, the lime’s juicy finish. We were even drinking gin and tonics...
Our feijoa guava is one of those trees that asks for so little (just one deep watering a week) and yet bestows so much: 50+ pounds of fruit September through November, fodder for our guava gin, and an excuse to throw our infamous “guava jams”...
“We’ve all done pots, right? But baskets kind of allow you to use another space,” Kalim Owens (above) said during our recent trip to Weidner’s Gardens. “Many of us now have these small patio gardens, so your square footage on the ground is only so much....
Scientific illustrations of flora, fauna and fungi are an unending source of excitement for us. When we learned, via design blog Miss Moss, that Biodiversity Heritage Library offers almost 80,000 of them in high-resolution on its Flickr page, we made a beeline for the botanical...
We spent Wednesday afternoon furtively refreshing the Home & Garden section of The New York Times until, in a hot pink flash, our favorite bromeliad appeared on the screen. “In the Garden: Marriage Is Yard Work,” read the headline above the photo, and that’s when...
Crow, tree, butterfly, bird of paradise. Yoga pose or part of the landscape? Here at the Yoga Yard, either category could apply. When we visited the studio last weekend for a vinyasa flow class held outdoors on its 1,000-square-foot redwood deck, a whole mob of vegetation coaxed...
Remember our darling, hangover-curing loquat tree? About a month after we picked its last fruit of the season, our tree was attacked by a horde of green apple aphids. It happened almost overnight: One moment the loquat’s foliage was broad and lustrous, and the next its...
We’ll let you guess which half of The Horticult we’re talking about here: Growing up, one of us was hopelessly obsessed with miniatures. Ages 8 through 11 13, C used to make pilgrimages to suburban mall kiosks and craft stores to buy toothpick chandeliers, lawnmowers operated...
“It’s unpredictable to be in a space that’s both indoor and outdoor in the same breath,” says furniture/accessories/interior designer Ilan Dei as he stands in the shop he founded last year in Venice, California. “People will be on their cell phones as they’re walking in,...
While relishing a bloodless victory against the king of Persia, Greek philosopher Xenophon and 10,000 of his fellow soldiers stumbled into an abandoned village — and onto a smorgasbord of beehives. The hives’ honey was made from the nectar of rhododendrons, which grew wild near...
