Apartment Therapy: gardening

Matching Flowers to Vases?

Martha's alliums defy logic: one very long stem to one very short, small glass vase More often than we'd like to admit, we'll go to the farmer's market intending to buy food...and come back with more ...

LA Good Question: Good Source for Plant Containers?

I am looking for some small plant pots I saw out but can't remember where. They were small 4in diameter unglazed clay like terra cotta but in dark gray and greenish black. Have you seen anything like...

Simple Green: How To Design An Ocean Friendly Garden

ATLA blogger-in-training, Rebecca, is back today with a coastal gardening resouce: Outdoor home gardens and landscapes can be a pretty, resourceful and "green" extension of your home. It’s easy, ho...

San Diego Store: Gardenology - Melding Indoor with Outdoor Living

Here's our second new ATLA trial blogger, Rebecca, with a store post located south down in Encinitas. Tell us what you think! One of my favorite home stores is Gardenology, located in Encinitas, CA, ...

Robomow

The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Where a lush expansive finely manicured green lawn is a beautiful and inviting part of summer days and nights, a place to play croquet, have a picnic or just lol...

Strategic Tree Planting = Energy Savings

Over the weekend, we finally got around to taking the Trees for a Green LA quiz with the idea we'd take up the city's offer for a few free trees to add to our garden. One of the notable benefits of pl...

Ladybug, Ladybug come to My Home: The Cute Pesticide

Last week, Gregory blogged attracting bees and butterflies into the garden with his beautiful and fragrant plantings. But, as nature intended, along with the good bugs come the bad ones, the circle o...

Long Weekend Roundup: Best Garden Tips, Tricks and Inspiration

As we prepare to sit back and relax for a nice 3 day weekend (we're going out of town, yay!) we thought we'd round up our favorite garden related posts from last month for those of you who plan to do ...

Look! A Sweet Stoop

"Did some clean up this week on the patio - only one new plant, but the simple act of cleaning out debris and regrouping containers made *everything* feel new and fresh." Ana, we couldn't agree more,...

Attracting Bees and Butterflies Into the Garden

One of the secondary goals of our Green @ Home garden project is to create an environment attractive to pollinators. There's an undeniable pleasure and satisfaction watching bees and butterflies visit...

Wrangling the Garden Hose

See that photo up top? That's our apartment's communal hose and it almost always looks that unruly. It's about time we get that black mamba in check, but we're not quite sure which hose organizing sol...

WheelEasy LE: The Collapsible Wheelbarrow

With all the physical toil we've been doing for our garden makeover project, we've often wished we had a wheelbarrow around (the good news is we're developing some muscles we've never had before). But...

Cat Scat Mats Protect Your Garden

Haha...we'll admit half the reason we decided to post this was the amusing illustration accompanying the description. The other reason was because we're looking for ways to deter our neighbor's cat fr...

Malibu Solar Powered Landscape Lighting

One the last, but important finishing touches in our Green @ Home garden makeover project will be to install some landscape lighting, both for aesthetics and also to illuminate what can be an unsafe d...

How Did You Enjoy the Outdoors This Weekend?

On Friday we talked about how we wanted to enjoy some of Summer this weekend. We sort of succeeded: we made lemonade, took a nice long walk in the neighborhood and on the beach, but we didn't get to ...

Mini Garden Tour: Gramma's House

My Grandparents built their house in Glendale in 1947 and spent the next 60 years cultivating the garden. A mix of drought tolerant plants and tropical greens, my grandmother was a smart gardener wit...

Prettiest Vine Ever? Passion Fruit

Please challenge us on this if you know of a prettier or more eye catching flowering vine. We can't think of one, though wisteria with its heavenly scent might be a close second. ...

Look! DIY Outdoor Dining

Eating, having a drink, hanging out with friends, it's all made even better when you can do it outdoors. It doesn't take a sprawling deck and fancy lighting to make it happen. Check out this awesome...

Garden Markers: Yucca DooHickeys

We've been busy toiling away in our apartment's front yard, pulling out dead plants, moving heavy rocks, shoveling soil to prepare for planting in the coming weeks. One thing we noticed in the pas whe...

Blogging...A Way To Garden

If you've just started to get into gardening and are eager to learn, hop over to Margaret Roach's blog, A Way to Garden. Not only is it full of great tips and advice on when to plant what and how to c...

Book We're Excited About: Avant Gardeners

Former Wallpaper magazine landscape editor Tim Richardson has put together a book that showcases the last ten years in avant garden landscape and garden design. We can't wait to flip through it and g...

Great Indoor Plant: Begonias

Coming from a gardening family most of my plants originated with another family member. This begonia was my grandmother's and among the things that I inherited from her. Luckily this kind of Begonia...

Where to Buy Living Wall Planters

Yesterday we blogged a gorgeous succulent wall planter and couldn't remember where we'd seen a more real world option. Thanks to reader DanielleM who reminded us that it was in the Gardener's Supply ...

Inspiration Next Door: Neighbor's Cacti Garden

Inspiration can come from anywhere...sometimes literally next door. Our neighbor Bill has spent years tending to a marvelous cactus garden on a south facing irregularly shaped plot of land which he's ...

Inspiration: Decorating with Produce

We're all familiar with using a big bowl of citrus fruit in our living rooms. A big bowl of oranges, lemons or limes is a familiar sight in decorating magazines. And green apples have become de rige...

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