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Posts tagged “plants & flowers”

Look! Air Plants In Glass

Here's the funny thing about blogging. It's the crazy intersection where luck meets imagination, where an experience -- a conversation, a place, food, the way someone's dressed -- sparks an idea that...

Ikea Balso Garden Pot: 1 pot, 3 uses

We picked up one of Ikea's new garden pots for its simplicity and fun texture. When we got home, we realized we could use it for a number of things around the house. ...

Look! Orchid In the Bathroom?

We've been told that orchids flourish in humid environments, so we're wondering if we can salvage our dying orchid by sticking it in the bathroom on the windowsill? Or is the kitchen a better idea? ...

Tristan Zimmerman's Park Planters

Heh. These planters would make a great housewarming gift for that friend who has a sly sense of humor. Created by Tristan Zimmerman, these planters were designed to make a regular houseplant get the ...

Kim Westad's Seaside Inspired Ceramics

We noticed during our most recent trip to Target a plethora of seaside and seashell inspired home and decorative items. The coast is never out of style, but it certainly is "in" style now. Both ATNY a...

How To: Make a tiny terrarium

We post about our love for terrariums here at AT:LA quite frequently. We just saw another one that made our heart skip a beat! Look at this super cute tiny terrarium made from a clear Christmas orname...

Look! Zoop by Karim Rashid for Propper

We spotted these brightly colored things at Target over the weekend. What is it? Well, if the title of this post doesn't give it away, take a guess and see if you're right after the jump... ...

Butterfly Cachepots from Pottery Barn

We saw these little pots in-store the other day and thought they were a fun and easy way to add a little happy Springtime cheer into your home. These Butterfly Cachepots are only about 2.25" high and ...

Look! Porcelain Cactus plants from Tozi Home

Stemming off of yesterday's "Succents in the Bathroom" post, while we were flipping through the Spring 08 O at Home, we saw what would surely be something we couldn't kill (and could still look great ...

The Los Angeles Flower Market

Here's a timely revisit of a romantic local resource: We love fresh flowers. We buy a bunch to brighten up our apartment once a week. But when we want to do it big: the grand romantic gesture or ju...

IKEA Glass Shelf Terrariums

Very cool idea via IkeaHacker showing how to create your own Detolf glass shelf unit terrariums with PC fan ventilation fans, created specifically to keep their precious houseplants away from the hung...

Gardenia Grow 2008: Aqua Globes Watering System?

For the past 10 years, my oldest pal gives me a gardenia plant in early February and we make a bet to see if I can keep it alive for the entire year. Actually, it started out as, "Let's see if you c...

Best White Plant Containers

Hopefully you remembered to put your houseplants out to catch some rain this weekend. While we were putting ours out we started thinking about spring planting and decided to stock up on some simple...

Galerie Flowerbox: Vertical House Plants

AT:LA reader, katalyst pointed out a more modern and refined version of the same idea as the Indoor Living Wall Planter we recently posted. The Galerie Flowerbox comes in single, triple or quad hole v...

Flower of the moment: Anthurium

These classic flowers have been popping up a lot lately and we're falling for their waxy leaves and long lives. ...

Look! Branches and Bunches of Yellow

Went for another walk and noticed even more yellow. The window of a local flowershop had this great display of branches with pops of yellow hydrangea. How to make your own after the jump!...

Are Dead Flowers Beautiful?

Feng Shui be damned, we think dead flowers are beautiful. And on more than one occasion we've allowed flowers (tulips and peonies especially) to remain in their vases for weeks past their so-called...

Look! Large Scale Plants

Wow. We forget that plants can act as a sculpture within a room. As this photo from incredibly talented Debi Treloar illustrates, a plant can be much more than just something to water that sits o...

Cylinder plant stands at Smith&Hawken

Give your plants a little lift! We are loving the look of these Cylinder Plant Stands at Smith & Hawken. They're vintage-inspired, "reminiscent of pieces found in English conservatories", but we act...

Best Color Palette: Light green, white, blue and pink

We spent some time checking out past house tours for inspiration and basically gasped when we saw Heather Frazier's Dining Room. It's exactly the color palette we've been slowly working towards in ...

Don't Forget the Flowers

The bedroom just was not coming together. All the elements were great but it just wasn't working. Then some peonies came into the picture....

Green Light: The Air Filtering Solar LED Chandelier

The Green Light is actually a very simple concept that does a few things all at once with solar technology. Using a solar awning to harness the sun's rays, a six watt LED bulb (60 watt equivalent) i...

Indoor Plants: For our Money, Begonias

Even in Southern California, it can get too cold for plants outside and they'll suffer a freeze. So we were totally inspired by this image in January's Martha Stewart Living of winter citrus soakin...

Tlcharger by Flowerbox
n. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites

Think outside the box! Uh, the flowerbox that is. Don't know how exactly they do it but French company Flowerbox is growing plants in tubes, on frames, and largely sideways taking plants from decor...

Slinks: Agro-Housing
n. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites

The term indoor plant has a whole new meaning now that they've designed apartment buildings with mini farms on the inside. For the moment it looks like China will have all the fun, but soon, LA, s...