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Posts tagged “Gardening”

Austin Natural Inspiration: Big Red Sun
Austin, Texas

Adrienne is back with us today with some a great garden source for you Austinites! Tell us what you think! Sometimes you just visit a space and the magic of it overtakes you. Couple that with cool p...

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...

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...

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 ...

Alternative to Ivy: Creeping Fig Vine

People often plant ivy out of desperation realizing they need to cover up a concrete block wall in the yard or quickly fill in an eyesore. We can't urge you enough not to do this. Once you plant Ivy...

Growing Garden Wall in Metropolitan Home

Browsing through Metropolitan Home we snapped this picture of one of the most beautifully planted living walls we've seen so far. Well, let us rephrase. It was the most beautiful living wall we've s...

What To Do With a Broken Pot

Pots for the garden can be expensive, so when one cracks, you can turn it around and pretend like it's not there. But once a whole chunk of the pot is gone, you can no longer stay in denial. That's ...

Expanding Water Crystals for the Garden, Seriously

Expanding Crystals? Sounds like some kind of voodoo, right? Well, If this weekend was any indication of how hot it's going to be this summer, it's time to hook your plants up with some self watering...

Aquatic Hanging Vases from CB2

Koko of Koko's Aquatic Garden let us know that CB2 is selling these hanging vases that could be used as to make hanging aquatic gardens like the ones she made!...

Drought Tolerant Plant: Flax

Last week, there were some questions about what plant was in the Look! Planting in Rows post. Well, it's flax and it comes in a bunch of different sizes and colors. We took some time to see how othe...

Look: Chia Pet-style Backyard Planters

We nearly spit out our water when we saw these hilarious planters posted by KatG on HGTV's RateMySpace site. The rest of her garden is also worth checking out, with baskets of succulents, large plante...

Look! Snail Planter!

Normally people spend a lot of time and energy guarding their gardens against snails but the other day we saw this ingenious way to incorporate snails into the garden. Not only is it a great small sp...

Framing the Front Door with Plants

Over the weekend we stopped in on a friend and saw their front door nicely framed with a pair of oversized concrete planters and giant bird of paradise. What had been a sort of empty front deck sudde...

Food Map Container at Dwell on Design

While walking down the aisles of the convention center at Dwell on Design this afternoon, we overheard someone mention "...and it's perfect for people who live in apartments". Designer Jon L. Wilson o...

Outdoor Spaces from Elysian Landscapes

Especially in LA where the threat of rain is negligible you can use outdoor space to create extra 'rooms' like the one above. We love the landscape design from LA based Elysian Landscapes. Jump belo...

Let a Media Fast Help You Plant a Garden

Back during the cure we talked about how to media fast as a way of cultivating more stillness and clarity in everyday life (not to mention actually noticing where you live instead of being glued to th...

Spruce Up Your Front Door Ideas from Our House Tours

A sense of humour welcomes you and lets you know what to expect when you enter Susan and Michaels Artistic AerieWith the onset of Spring, it's time to take a good look at your front entrance. Not jus...

How To's For The Garden:
An Apron, Little Planters And An Outdoor Tray

Martha Stewart's Craft of the Day has recently showcased some great ways to freshen up the outdoors with simple DIY projects:...

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn

We just got back from taking Maxwell around Sunset Junction, and stopped into two of our favourite local design shops, Kelly Green and Reform School. While Maxwell and I perused through the wares at e...

ICFF: Thelermont Hupton Off The Wall Planters

You know how we keep talking about succulents and small gardens? Well these Off the Wall Planters should be added to our Best Plant Containers for Small Spaces Post. Not only are they tiny, but beca...

LA Event: Southern California Spring Garden Show

This weekend marks the return of the Annual Southern California Spring Garden Show. It's being held again at South Coast Plaza (in the Crate and Barrel/ Macy's Home Store wing) in Costa Mesa. Over 75 ...

Look! Simple Sorta Terrariums

Plants around the house add life and interest to a small space. As we've made clear we're totally in love with terrarium's but can find them to be a little daunting to put together and maintain. So ...

LA Store - Third Street: Mordigan Nurseries

The other day, Gregory blogged ...

Los Angeles Composting/ Recycling Workshop

Looking to start 2008 with not only a green thumb, but also a greener lifestyle and some tasty greens while you're at it? John Lyons, a passionate green gardener who runs The Woven Garden, will be hos...