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SF Flower Box Award: Stanford Shopping Center

We stopped by Stanford Mall this weekend for a quick shopping trip and were stopped in our tracks by the gorgeous planters. Giant roses, huge amounts of yellow ranunculus, and more flowers than we ca...

SF Flower Box Award: Berkeley, 4th Street

We spotted this lovely planter whilst stopping for a quick cup of coffee. We like the oversize container, the simple one-color arrangement and LOVE the amazing fiery hue of those flowers...not a bad ...

SF Flower Box Award: Berkeley, 6th Street and Allston

Wow...we're a bit floored by this beauty of a plant. More photos and jaw-dropping below the jump......

SF Flower Box Award: Berkeley, Private Residence

A friend invited us over for an official "thank-god it's springtime and the weather rocks" lunch date (before the predicted rain rolls in) and we couldn't resist snapping a few pictures in her incre...

SF Flower Box Award: Berkeley

Some of our favorite flower boxes are the flowers-when-you-least-expect-them kind. ...

SF Flower Box Award: Rand at Wickson, Oakland

We love succulents, so a whole front yard of them practically makes us swoon. This house in Oakland has some of the most beautiful we've seen, with seemingly every color of the rainbow showing up in t...

SF Flower Box Award: Hearst Near 4th, Berkeley

We often forget to appreciate the obvious things in life. Sometimes you have to walk by something time and time again before it slaps you in the face and shouts, "Hey you...fool! I'm here! Yoohoo!" ...

SF Flowerbox Awards

At long last the sun has decided to make an appearance. We basked in the tiniest bit of warmth and very quickly developed a bad case of spring fever. It's been awhile, but we have two flower box awa...

Flower Box Award: Divisidero near Page

Fresh start.Brimming with cheerful flowerbeds, thriving greenery, and whimsically-painted flowerpots, this house caught our eye early yesterday morning as we were walking from Lower Haight to Alamo S...

Flower Box Award: Carl near Stanyon

These giant hydrangeas would be blue ribbon winners if they were entered in the San Francisco County Fair. If there was one. Thankfully there are AT:SF Flower Box Awards, and these blooms are our la...

Flower Box Award: Cole near Haight

In this case it's less about the flower pots full of red, pink and yellow geraniums (which are indeed pretty but not extraordinarily so), but about the way they pop against the yellow and gold color s...

Flower Box Award: Oak near Masonic

We love the practice of lining your front steps with flowering potted plants. In this case, the cumulative effect of small and colorful blooms, each in their own pot, is almost like a wild alpine me...

Flower Box Award: Shrader near Waller

We haven't bestowed a flower box award in a while. It's not that we don't notice flower boxes, it's that SF has too many good ones. It's hard to decide what makes one worthy of an appearance on AT. ...

Flower Box Award: Parnassus near Stanyan

Passing this flower box the other day reminded us of turning a bend on a long hike through the woods and discovering a meadow of wildflowers. The city version of that. We love the combination of te...

Flower Box Award: Arguello near California

We stopped the car the other day when we noticed this amazing display tumbling from a planter in front of a house on Arguello. When you live on a busy motor vehicle thoroughfare like Arguello, it ...

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