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...
Flower show season is in full swing, and we are here for it. Ryan and I recently attended the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show like we did last year, but this time as invited guests and guided by the show's plant registrar Heidi Kirkpatrick. [caption id="attachment_23294" align="alignnone"...
Sometimes, being on the other side of the camera is a trip. Better Homes & Gardens magazine approached us to see if we might be interested in being featured in their "I Did It" section. The only thing: the shoot and the interview would have to happen...
A few months ago, our friend Juree Sondker launched her beautiful new skincare company, Horticulture. Dig the name, right? Well, wait until you hear about the serum. Like “liquid gold” in a bottle and aromatic silk on your skin, Plant Potion by Horticulture Skin Care is basically...
Does your patio need more green? Got a bright window that's all dressed up, but with nothing to grow? This week on BHG.com, we round up 10 Plants That Grow Surprisingly Well in Containers — from Meyer lemon trees in pots to sidewalk sweet potatoes. Our whiskey barrel water...
Shaped like a candelabra, our Euphorbia avasmontana is in bloom. But when we talk about the spectacle, we're not talking about the flowers (which are too small to be easily seen)—we're talking about the plant's cyathia. That is, the yellow flower-like structures that add flash to a...
Orchids are easy to obsess over. Who hasn't been preoccupied with a phalaenopsis at one point? Had some cattleyas floating around the back of your head? Maybe one showed up on your desk and you spent the rest of the workweek helicopter parenting it, or maybe...
A little soil can change everything. “Ask anyone who knew me in my early twenties if they could have imaged I’d grow up to be a champion of the great outdoors,” writes Celestine Maddy in the introduction to A Wilder Life. “Not one would say yes....
This #FlashbackFriday we're taking you all the way back...
Who has experience growing primroses? We're new to the primrose party, but here's an early observation: They are THIRSTY. Housed in the Primula genus, the primrose is a perennial semi-evergreen native to northern Africa and southwestern Asia. You'll also see them growing wild throughout Europe, from the British...
