Spotted at Potted: Notes From Our Clay Pot Demonstration
If this wasn't our first time using power tools in front of an audience...
08 June, 2016
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DIY Garden Camera: How to Make a Magnetic Tripod for Your Phone
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...
02 June, 2016
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Beer, Garden: That Time We Hosted a Brew Tasting in Our Yard
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...
27 May, 2016
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See You in Santa Monica: Check Out Our Demo at the New Potted @Lazybones Shop
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...
19 May, 2016
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What’s the Story, Morning Glory? 7 Reasons to Snapchat Your Garden
For all the planning it involves, gardening is filled with blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. Like short-lived blossoms and butterfly fly-bys. A Venus flytrap chomping on a housefly. Sometimes you just want to gush off the cuff about the taste of a fresh-grown radish to whoever happens to be listening. Which...
11 May, 2016
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Mom’s Garden: From New England to North Carolina (and California) With Love
My mom is an artist, a grandmother, an insurance agent and a gardener. I've always appreciated my mom for all her talents and enthusiasms, but it has only been over the past six years (since I've taken a more profound interest in plants) that I've...
06 May, 2016
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Beyond Succulents: 10 Favorite Native Plants from a California Garden Tour
Earlier this month, we spent a day guiding ourselves around home gardens all over L.A.'s Eastside and San Fernando Valley. They varied in size, design and mood, but here's what united them: All the gardens primarily grew native plants—flora indigenous to this region. Yes, it...
29 April, 2016
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10 Ways to Keep Your Garden Vibes Going This Spring
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are spring is making itself known in all its bold, sneaky, fragrant ways. Your lilacs are jamming. The daylilies are on deck. You can almost taste the tomatoes! But...
21 April, 2016
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Show Thyme: How to Build an Outdoor Theater in Your Garden
This post contains affiliate links, which means we receive a small commission from purchases on the products we recommend below. Thanks for helping us grow! Movie night under the stars — in our own garden — is one of our favorite luxuries. The tips of our...
15 April, 2016
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Grown in the Golden State: Tour some of California’s most beautiful native gardens
Mad about manzanita? Will you walk for miles to spot a bleeding heart? This spring, you can see some of California's most spectacular native gardens and plants taking place in the Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, East Bay, Sacramento and Santa Clara areas. The California...
31 March, 2016
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