Saturday found us at the rosemary-lined house of our friend Danielle Gano, where we spent the afternoon painting chevrons on terracotta pots, drinking prosecco, and eating every kind of cheese imaginable. In other words: It was the perfect day. Danielle's the founder of bicoastal PR agency...
Aah! So many horticultural hot dates are coming up. In addition to Art Alive this weekend, we’re excited about Pasadena Open Day on Sunday, April 28, hosted by the Garden Conservancy. Pick up your tickets to visit some of the most impressive private gardens in the city,...
On the one hand, there are flings — the here-today-faded-tomorrow flashes of love, drama and seduction. And on the other hand, there are the smooth and steady partnerships that only get better and more brilliant over time. We were reminded of these two kinds of...
Nasturtium has got to be one of the most underrated — and tastiest — plants of mid-spring. Maybe it’s just too easy to take its flowers for granted; their brilliant red, yellow and orange blossoms are beyond abundant this time of year, blanketing canyons, flashing...
“I love moss. I love birch. My origins are Russian, so it just makes me happy, makes me feel like I’m back in my childhood, playing in the forest,” says NYC-based floral designer Bella Meyer, who is in California this week to create a show-stopping...
Our obsession with freeway fauna is closely documented. Can you blame us? Staring at the tender wildflowers, itchy scoops of chaparral and fat, sassy succulents growing along the shoulder makes a slow merge all the more bearable. It's one of the fringe benefits of life...
Greetings, fellow Earthlings. Today is the day we celebrate our home planet. (So actually, every day is Earth Day.) Even though many of the major events happened over the weekend — including the sustainability-centric Earth Day 2013 festival in SF and the New York Cares Day...
Like Zora Neale Hurston said, “Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” So it seems wonderfully apt that Lora and Frank Banzali — two magnetic Midwesterners who traded Illinois winters for LA’s endless summer — would cultivate their surroundings with...
Out of the horror and mayhem of yesterday's Boston Marathon bombings, there grew so many acts of heroism, generosity and selflessness. No doubt, many more will come to light this week. We offer our hearts, condolences and prayers to the victims and their loved ones....
“I'm a flower,” Meryl Streep narrates near the beginning of the utterly mesmerizing new Wings of Life documentary by Louie Schwartzberg. “I'm going to tell you, on behalf of all flowers, about life from our point of view. You think we're just fragile wisps of...
