Apartment Therapy: plants & flowers

Weekend Inspiration: Bring Home Some Flowers

Flowers are one of our favorite gifts to receive. They always bring a little extra life into a home, and they're a simple but chic way to add color. While you're out running errands this weekend, wh...

Look! Dried Leaves as Wall Decor

During a stroll in central Athens, we spotted the Antonello flower shop that used natural elements for exterior design. The individual leaves were dried and adhered to the outer wall, resulting in a s...

Intended Bloom

Chicago-based Intended Bloom is a new landscape service seeking to help with your large or small scale gardening projects. For advice ranging from container gardening consultations to landscape instal...

Frugal Flowers: How To Choose Flowers at the Supermarket

Click to See All PicsLiving in the Midwest means that there is little fresh greenery to be seen outdoors during the long, cold winter. So we feel that cut flowers are a small yet necessary luxury to b...

Best Plants to Give as Gifts

To make a good gift, we believe a plant has to be one or all of these things: 1) easy to care for, 2) useful, 3) beautiful. Almost all plants fit the "useful" bill, since they absorb carbon dioxide ...

Epoch/Pie: Food and Flowers

How did we not know about this shop before? They sell two of our favorite things: flowers and baked goods, all inside a stylish space that's worth visiting, if not for pies and plants, then at least...

Shopping in Chicago: Buying Plants for the Back Porch

We spent Saturday out and about, buying a couple of plants for our back porch from the Green Grocer and Grand Street Gardens. Along the way, we snapped photos of plants, people, and the final set-up...

Look! Organic Plant Sale Poster

Yesterday we got an unexpected present - my husband brought home this print by Chicago artist Mat Daly advertising an organic plant sale at the Green Grocer. (We photographed it in our recently pain...

Shopping in Chicago: Grand Street Gardens

On a walk through the Ukrainian Village this weekend we came across Grand Street Gardens and went in to take some photos. This source for green gardening supplies has stacks of glazed pots organized...

Farmers' Market Decorating

We can't wait to start shopping at the Farmers' Market this summer. Besides providing daily meals, farmer's market finds can keep your home looking fresh......

5 Small Space Planters

After reviewing the Gardener's Supply Company yesterday, we thought it might be helpful to round up a few ideas for small space planters. The Pod Vases and air plants above are from Sprout Home, and...

Gardener's Supply Company

Gardener's Supply is a great resource for both outdoor and indoor items including a wide range of eco-friendly goods - check out their selection of solar lights and compost systems. They sell gard...

Stems

Allison Denny and Shana Price opened Stems on Ashland Avenue in 2001. Since then, the team of floral designers have supplied an impressive list of corporate clients including Harpo Productions, InSt...

Garfield Park Conservatory Market Place

We haven't been to the Garfield Park Conservatory Market Place, but from the sounds of it, we think it will be a great summer weekend destination. Besides the 10,000+ square foot garden center featur...

Grand Street Gardens

Grand Street Gardens bills itself as "your organic source". If you are interested in going truly green in your garden, it sounds like a trip to this garden center might be in your future. Open all y...

A New Leaf

We'd heard for ages that A New Leaf was pretty much THE Chicago spot for all things floral. Though we'd peeked in the entry and small front room a few times, we had no clue that the space extended on ...

Smith and Hawken

Smith and Hawken is housed in an amazing old building. The big brick shop on North Kingsbury is such a cool space. The interior is great, with double height ceilings and soaring industrial windows...

Gethsemane Garden Center

A Chicago staple, the Gethsemane Garden Center is a family owned shop providing plants and services to long time (and first time) city gardeners. They have been doing this long enough (over 30 year...

Museum of Contemporary Art Store

Browsing through the MCA Store can be a bit like walking wide-eyed around the museum itself. We mostly go for the book selection and range of fun, beautiful cards, but the store also has a slew of h...

Larkspur

Larkspur's beautiful Bucktown storefront is a big draw; walking by makes you want what's inside. We found their business card in a surprisingly lovely bar bathroom, so we asked around. Not only was t...

Sprout Home

Stopping by Sprout Home feels a little bit like dropping in at a friend's home - a friend with a fabulous modern aesthetic. The large open space, poured concrete floors and tons of light make the s...

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