Tag: Garden | Apartment Therapy

Using Found Objects in The Garden

Old wine bottles, chipped glass stones, broken windows and torn chinese lanterns often get cast-away with the trash (if not recycled). But we're loving Barbara's lovely sentiment to reuse these item...

10 Inspiring Small Space Balcony Gardens

A small balcony can be the best little hideaway as long as it isn't just a forgotten chair and a dead plant or two. Yes even a really tiny outdoor space has the potential to be a refuge from the re...

The DIY Modern Outdoor Succulent Planter #2

Inspired by Annette's Modern DIY Outdoor Planter post, Apartment Therapy reader Chris shows us all how easy of a project this is to all mimic......

Annette's Modern DIY Outdoor Planter

We're fans of any DIY that is simple, has great impact and uses supplies that are easily findable. So when we saw this great modern planter idea filled with easy to grow succulents we were intrigue...

4 Easy Ways to Keep Bugs and Pests Out of The Garden

A garden is a labor of love, even if it's just a couple of containers on a balcony. It takes time, attention and love. And normally it pays us back 3 fold with beauty, fruit and a sense of having ...

5 Terrariums That Are A Cut Above

In our everlasting quest for more and more ways to make a terrarium we ran across a couple of terrariums that really stood out from the crowd either for scale, creativity or just being awesome:...

Simple, Modern Trellis Idea for the Garden

We've been on the hunt for simple garden ideas and also for some modern garden blogs to really sink our teeth into. While on the search we came across 2 things we loved: this idea for an uber modern ...

The DIY Balcony "Flower Bed"

Apartment Therapy reader Jackie Honikman sent us her whimsical and imaginative DIY project that puts a cheap canopy bed frame to reuse in a whole new light as a balcony garden flower bed. We could als...

3 Inspiring Garden Ideas at The Camp

Last week we met up with a retired Apartment Therapy editor while shooting a house tour down in Costa Mesa. He showed us some sights and we stopped in at The Camp, an outdoor mall, for a quick bit ...

Michel Bussien's The Growing Tree Chair

Last month we fell in love with the Pooktree Tree Shapers Living Furniture over on Apartment Therapy San Francisco. We've always loved the idea of a tree grown in the shape of a chair and wondered if...

Big Plants Indoors?

A couple years ago, in a fit of longing for greenery in my loft in San Francisco, I went out and bought a huge houseplant. Well, it was more like a tree (or at least that is what the bum who lived aro...

Outside Elegance: Dream Garden

Oh man, are we ready for the end of this truly heinous week...damn. We are so looking forward to the weekend, especially since June gloom seems to be over (knock on wood). On tap for tomorrow: Tying ...

My Great Outdoors: Steve's Zen Backyard

Name: Steve Prestemon Location: Venice, CA Type of space: Outdoor living area Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I did the yard in three stages with a contractor. Stage one wa...

Pods Planters by Pad Outdoor

We've been long time fans of the Midcentury era bullet planters that take us back to the heydays of outdoor Palm Springs chic and Valley modernist indoor plants. We feel the same sort of affinity for...

Simple Tips to Make Over Your Garden

If you're looking at your backyard in despair, take heart: Sometimes, it's the little things that can make a difference. We've rounded up a few simple, budget-friendly tips that can help enliven your ...

Weekend Meditation: Put Chairs Outside and Sit Down

I've been living somewhat stressed out recently and the last thing I need is to have more chores on the list. So right now the plants are lucky they're getting watered, forget about maintenance (thou...

5 Fragrant Plants for a Small Space

When I visited my mom this weekend she put me to work 'dead-heading' her lavender. As I trimmed away the dead blossoms the smell of lavender surrounded me and attracted quite a few bees. It reminded...

5 Inspiring Dought Tolerant Gardens

click for more picsLiving in Southern California and talking about the outdoors means bringing up the question of water usage and how much we can actually allot to keeping our gardens alive. As we've...

Roundup: Best Nurseries in LA

click for more picsOf course, our favorite way to acquire plants is to share with friends and family. After all, cuttings are easily propagated from most plants and it's as close to free as you're go...

Garden Inspiration: Ikea Molger Hack

Looking for outdoor planters and furniture that is stylish, simple and affordable can prove to be quite a challenge so we're always looking for smart ways to use what we've already got at hand. Long ...

4 Excellent Ideas From Kay's Garden

We find it to be a luxury when we're able to spend time outdoors in amazing weather. If you're like us, you can manage with a set of steps but when we're lucky enough to spend an afternoon in an insp...

Good Quotes: The Delights of Gardening
Los Angeles

click for more pics "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." Thomas Jefferson...

Blogging...Shedblog and Shedworking

click for more picsFor those of us who've had fantasies of living, Thoreau style, on Walden pond in a minimalist cabin we may have drooled over streamlined prefabs nestled in forests or dreamed of goi...

Store: Grounded | Modern Living
San Diego

When we stay with our friends in Encinitas, we enjoy checking out the main street full of stores, boutiques and restaurants. When we spotted Grounded tucked away in a little pavilion, we popped in to...

How To: Spring Clean the Garden

Each spring I get the bug to really go overboard with my garden. I want to plant vegetables and flowers and vines and more succulents, etc. Sometimes, it's safe to say, I get a little ahead of mysel...

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