Updated March 6th, 2021: Order your vertical gardening kits today at SkyPots.com. It's been six years now since we published the original DIY project for Whole Foods's Dark Rye magazine. The project didn't even have a name at the time. Better Homes & Gardens then picked...

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...

Where in the world have we been these past few weeks? Good question. What we thought would be a one-week-or-so-break ended up stretching for a month, and we're sorry to leave you hanging! Ryan and I have been traveling (to Kona, Hilo and Seattle; not bad gigs),...

If there’s one plant — one group of plants — that equally amazes and weirds out visitors to our place, it’s our collection of carnivores. We’ve written about them before: how some entrap their prey passively with intoxicating nectar and slippery surfaces, others with chomping showmanship,...