Apartment Therapy Tagged: flowers

5 Things To Do In The Garden Right Now

Fall is the best time to plant in Southern California. October is the prime month but you can start scouting for plants now along with getting the garden ready for planting. Here are 5 things you ca...

Good Question: What Are These Flowers?
Los Angeles

Help AT-- I snapped this picture out of who knows what magazine and I'm dying to know what kind of flowers these are! Anyone know?...

Look! Dinner Plate Dahlias

There is nothing so stunning as a dinner plate dahlia, so-called because of the ginormous size of the blooms: ...

How To: Arrange Flowers

Michelle Workman was the designer behind our most recent house tour, and one of the details she was responsible for that we noted was the glorious centerpiece floral arrangement anchoring the dining t...

Simple Summer Flower Arranging

It's summertime! And one of the best parts is that everyone can take a load off, let their hair down, ignore that chore (for now) and just enjoy great weather and long days. One of our favorite ways...

Being a Good Houseguest, Part 2: Thank You Flowers from 1 800 Flowers.com

Although they say that “home is the place that when you get there, they have to take you in,” after staying with my mother during ICFF, I wanted to take Laure's advice and be a good house guest an...

Look! Ceiling Art

After a long day at ICFF, we accompanied a friend shoe shopping. While the shoes were stunning, it was the ceiling that took our breath away... ...

Pretty and Useful Product: Floral Bath Sponge

Since we're trying to keep the bathroom simple, we like the things we use all the time to be pretty and functional, that's why we love these Flower Bath Sponges. We're considering keeping one in the ...

Keeping Cleaning Simple: Start with Flowers

Sometimes it takes something small to motivate us to clean. When we buy fresh flowers for our bedside, we have the urge to clean up the clutter on the bedside table so that the flowers look nicer. O...

Our Neighbor, Our Garden

We love a garden but we don’t have a green thumb. We’re envious of people who do and grateful that one of them is our neighbor. Over the years, he’s turned our common courtyard, formerly lands...

Andrea Yates Ceramics

We've got roses on the brain and can't resist the whimsical pull of these little bowls from Andrea Yates. The whimsical drawings are done by hand and she also casts each of the porcelain bowls. We'r...

10 Great Vases for Under $25

With Spring happening all around us, it's easier than ever to be inspired to fill the house with plants and flowers. We've rounded up our favorite vases and containers to fill with fresh blooms under...

Look! A Rose's First Bloom

As rose enthusiasts know, there is no replicating the vigor, the intensity, of a rose's first bloom. We're lucky enough to have received some freshly cut blooms and will be making a point of seeking ...

Look! Poppies in Lancaster

Last year we went to see the amazing fields of poppies in Lancaster just to find that we had missed them by about two weeks. Instead of the incredible blooms we found...dirt. So if you're looking fo...

David Wiseman Bronze Branch and Porcelain Flowers

Bringing some nature inside can add a huge boost of the good feelings we want to have at home. The delicate bronze branches and equally fragile porcelain blooms on David Wiseman's latest sculptures l...

Flat Flowers

A huge part of the Cure is buying your apartment flowers. The aliveness of them helps breathe life into forgotten areas of our living spaces and reminds us to keep flat surfaces cleared off so that t...

Felt Vase Collection by Joshua Stone

Since we're always looking to add to our white vase collection, we can't believe we missed these when they first came out......

Flower Arranging, part 2: Deconstructing A Bouquet

While we could display this mixed arrangement as received, we prefer to spread the love around. With that goal in mind, we took it apart and rummaged through our vases. The results after the jump.....

Flower Arranging

We're big on flowers over here at AT. A gift to yourself, and to your house, a simple bouquet can add a touch of luxury for only a few dollars. While flower arranging is an art in Japan, here the a...

DIY: Make Your Own Floral Preservative

We love flowers. What we don't like: their short life. So we use that little white package of floral preservative that accompanies some bouquets. Containing sugar, for nutrition; bleach, to keep th...

Spring has Sprung: How is your Bedroom Doing?

Taking a walk yesterday it was clear that spring has sprung in LA. And since Bedroom Month is rapidly coming to a close, we wanted to review some of our favorite ways to usher Spring into our bedroom...

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!...

What to do this Weekend: Downtown LA Flower Mart

With the fixation that we have with flowers around here, it's a wonder we hadn't made it to the Flower Mart downtown a bit sooner. ...

Flowers Made From Plastic Bags

Helixthecat of Instructables shows us all how to take that pile of leftover plastic bags and create an artificial floral arrangement that shows you care about recycling. No word yet about instructions...

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....

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