Keeping Out Intruders Using Your Garden
We've always admired our neighbors front garden--it's a bit wild and scary (but beautiful at the same time). While these prickly agaves aren't planted directly underneath windows, the massive groupin...
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My Great Outdoors: Christel's Front and Backyard Makeover
Name: Christel and Chris Location: Los Feliz, CA Type of space: Front yard, side yard, back patio How did you do it?: For years, our front yard was filled with overgrown, 'thirsty' and uninteresting ...
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...
5 Inspiring Garden Books
So our balcony herb garden is all planted and functional, our succulent containers are healthy and thriving, and our planting bed is sort of taking care of itself. This means that there's actually ti...
Gearing Up For Spring
Flower Suggestions For Your Home
The warm weather and blue skies of Spring provide the perfect opportunity for adding more color by way of outdoor flowers and plants outside your home. If you have ample garden space or a small patio,...
Before and After: Dry Spell Gardening
Australia
Our garden is looking mighty sad after the incredibly dry and hot summer Victoria has experienced this year. With water restrictions firmly in place, watering every day was off limits so we could onl...
The Sunstick: A Stocking Stuffer for Black Thumb Gardeners
Our co-contributer Abby has admitted on numerous times that she's afflicted by what is commonly known as "black thumb", where any flora bestowed to her care gradually deteriorates until they shrivel a...
The Rake and Take
Free PDF Plans to Make Your Own
The arrival of fall means a lot of us will be raking clear lawns, sidewalks and backyards. Designer Louis J. Morton considered the back aching act of raking and then gathering leaves and set out to im...
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...
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