Big Red Sun has officially opened their Venice location on Rose. We had been eying their progress for a while: installing flying saucer planters, check. Painting the building bright blue, check. Painting the house next door bright green, check. Covering the front yard with flowering squash vines, check. This weekend we finally got a peek inside the rest of the place: part succulent friendly nursery, part retail shop (with incredible vintage finds), part modern landscape design firm; all charm:
Adrienne covered their incredible Austin Location earlier this summer and we lamented that we didn't have a place like that in LA. Well now we do. Taking up two houses on the corner of Rose and 6th in Venice, they've turned them into a retail shop, an office and a nursery out back. The shop is a mixture of succulent arrangements, modern vessels for plants, organic candles, vintage furniture, lighting fixtures and great gardening books. In addition to all this, Big Red Sun also offers gardening and landscaping services, makes custom arrangements for weddings and events and builds custom pools and ponds.
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how do you take care of perennials? i
1s there a special soil they are supposed to be planted in?
2 vitamins?
3how often to water?
4 light?
yes, i have killed a few, that's why i ask :)
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Big Red Sun in Austin has always been a favorite place of mine. It truly is apartment "therapy" as you always leave in a good mood.
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elinka--it depends on what kind of perennial. but normally you want to pay attention to the tag that comes with the plant and make sure it's getting the right amount of sunlight and water (too much water will kill a plant!). The tag will also normally say if it needs food once a year or once a month. is there one that you've killed over and over?
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oh no, it's been a variety :)
i guess my problem is that i get them because they are supposed to be easy to take care of, but i'm almost never home and so when i notice that something is wrong my plant, it is usually too late.
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laure, thank you for your advice :) once again.
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ahh, that makes sense. it seems obvious but watering is one of the main offenders. if you let the plant get too dry it won't make it and if you drown it, it will die too, so consistency is really the key. if you can, schedule one day a week to water (like every sunday morning) and then make sure you buy plants that don't need much water (like succulents).
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