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...
Wildflowers. They're sweet alyssum, they're art, and they're also a state of mind. I didn’t fully understand the latter until I met my friend Tanwi Nandini Islam, the Brooklyn-based writer whose debut novel, Bright Lines, will be published by Penguin in August 2015. We first met...
Sure — you can grow them. But you can also celebrate your love of plants by wearing them on your sleeves, your socks, or all over your skin. We found out about stellar “analog beauty” company Marble & Milkweed via Twitter, which led us to a...
I’ve been smearing myself with fragrant oils for a while now, ever since my tween-age years (y'know, back in the aromatherapy heyday of the 1990s), but I’ve never tried making my own infusion until now. The idea to make a skin salve with calendula flowers came...
Here's one thing we’ve learned since launching this little gardening gazette: There are only so many synonyms for flowers. Blooms, blossoms, the species name, yes. Inflorescence is another wonderful term we like to throw around, especially when we’re referring to some petalled shocker sent out...
Makeup named after flowers is nothing new. That’s why it’s notable that New York-based cosmetics company Nars is going the extra mile (thousands of them) by naming each shade in its new Satin Lip Pencil collection after an international park or garden – from the...