Our whiskey barrel pond has been feeling a little bit Monet, a little bit Midcentury Modern. It's our first season growing water lilies, and these amethyst blooms are STUNNAS. These Nymphaea 'Midnight' flowers are compact, about six inches in diameter, with stems that eek less than two inches...
A few months ago, I headed to the Lower East Side to interview plant artist/wild botanical genius Satoshi Kawamoto inside his new Green Fingers Market. We talked about the forest-inspired installations he's created for fashion labels like Gant Rugger and retailers like Mr Porter, plus tips on styling houseplants...
Thanks to places like the High Line and NYBG, thanks to community gardens and all those parks, New York is — in our opinion — one of the most exciting places to commune with plants. Maybe horticulture pops more when it’s unexpected. The age and culture of...
Not a whole lot's blooming in our garden (now that our passion flowers are giving way to passionfruit) — with one exception. The fuchsia plants are over the top right now. One of the shadiest spots in the yard is also the most colorful thanks to...
This year we've been going up...
When artist Noah Purifoy — legendary for his assemblage sculpture — moved to Joshua Tree from Los Angeles in 1989, the yucca-, cholla- and sagebrush-dotted landscape became his gallery space. It became the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Sculpture, to be exact. Today the...
Florist Eric Buterbaugh is the man who keeps Hollywood in stems. Opulent, modern and rosy, his designs are how fashion and entertainment's top names (Valentino, Gwyneth, Vuitton) say things like thank you, congrats and let's party. Now Eric's making his favorite — and not-so-favorite! — blossoms sing...
It's pretty clear that we enjoy teching out our terrain. Exhibit A: Our screen-filled Super Bowl garden party. Exhibit B, our outdoor robot heater. Figures, considering we blog about the outdoors, and our day jobs involve engineering (me) and media (Chantal). So when we heard about a device that goes right...
On a hot afternoon in L.A., great tufts of bougainvillea were blooming in three sorbet colors — soft pink, golden orange and screeching fuchsia. Not a lot of shade, but the effect was refreshing. We pulled over, put money in the meter, and walked. These colorblocked bougainvilleas grow on...
