Apartment Therapy: plants & flowers

Fantastico: One-Stop Shop for Kitschy Party Décor

Around here we’re big on simple, classy entertaining, with fresh flowers, good music, and a relaxed but elegant table. But there’s a time and place for another kind of party, one with loads of str...

Design Ideas From the New Hayes Valley Birch

Last week we went down to Hayes Valley to check out the new location of Birch, one of our favorite local florists, and the shop did not disappoint. Brightly colored blooms and shapely white containers...

FezQ

Tucked away in a little courtyard in downtown Carmel, Fez Q was like a little oasis when we stepped in out of the rain. We were greeted by bright colors, succulents and other plants, unusual floral a...

Hayes Valley: Furniture and Design Shop Tour

San Francisco is completely saturated with furniture and design shops... and it can be a bit difficult to wade through it all. Because of this, we took the time to go to one of our favorite neighborh...

Rose and Radish

It's been over two years since we updated our Rose and Radish shop listing, so we took a trip there last week to give you the scoop on what's happening in one of our favorite Hayes Valley boutiques. ...

Urbanweeds

We're used to having to eke out a modern vibe for our houseplants and patio using pots and plants from more traditional and country-style garden stores. It's not that it's terribly difficult to acco...

Flora Grubb

There's a little oasis out in the middle of the last place you'd expect it to be (Bayview), and it's wooing all sorts of gardeners - thumbs shades of green to, um, less so - to trek down and get inspi...

Alden Lane Nursery

In case you hadn't noticed, we've succumbed to the gardening bug. It came over us slowly, but it's completely overwhelmed our little brain and driven us to such madness that we recently drove to Live...

Planning the Garden: Vegetables (and the Occasional Strawberry)!

Amidst the chaos of our backyard makeover, we're digging in and trying our hand at a vegetable garden. Again. Round 2. It's on. This time, we want to do it right so we've been doing a wee bit of res...

The Gardener

It's no secret that we have a real humdinger of a crush on the Gardener. We've touted their wares more than once and bragged about the fact that we stalk the store on a regular basis. We've even fo...

Cactus Jungle

We have an annoying tendency to kill more plants than we would like...which is exactly how we discovered cacti and succulents. They have an incredible ability to ward of our "black-thumbs-of-plant-m...

Kingdom of Herbs

Originally opened in 1898, the San Francisco Ferry Building has recently undergone some major changes and has once again become one of our city's much loved landmarks. One of the most sublime change...

Native Here Nursery

Because of the Bay Area's microclimates, it can be really hard to know what will grow where. The Native Here Nursery is here to help you -- well, those of you who live in Contra Costa and Alameda co...

White Flower Farm

Doesn't the White Flower Farm catalog signal the coming of spring? It always did when we were kids. There was something about seeing it in the mailbox that made us think past the rainy California win...

Fiori

On a recent spring day, when the Bay Area was still being bucketed by rain, we wandered into Fiori. We felt the need for a sign that a real spring might actually happen, some color, some flowers...an...