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Posts tagged “cactus”

How To: Callus Succulents and Cacti

Callusing cactus? No, that's not a description of how your feet look after being in flip-flops all summer but a technique for sprouting cacti and succulents from plant pieces that have fallen or broke...

Look: An Old Car Planter
Austin

Not many of us have old and unused cars lying around our yards, but look how amazing this car becomes when it takes on the job of a planter! This is certainly taking the idea of reuse and recycle to a...

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 ...

Look! Tiny Succulent Gardens at Trader Joe's

We've blogged our credo of weekly flowers here at AT many times; it's an inexpensive way to bring life, luxury and a treat into your home every week. We usually buy our weekly flowers at Trader Joe's...

4 Tips for Growing Great Succulents & Cacti

Succulents and cacti, perfect for our water-challenged climate, are easy care but not no care. Master their quirks and you can decorate your home and garden with some of the succulent arrangements we...

LA Event: Show & Sale at LA Cactus & Succulent Society
June 14-15, 2008

We've been featuring a lot about succulents this week here (and here) at AT:LA, so the timing couldn't be more perfect for this weekend's Educational Show and Sale from the Los Angeles Cactus & Succul...

Succulent Candles

With our water-challenged climate (we've heard we may soon be back to official water conservation measures but even without them we're aware of our water usage), succulents are the perfect plants. An...

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...

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 ...