Mandatory Water Rationing for the East Bay
Anyone out there get the call from EBMUD yesterday? It's official: mandatory water rationing begins August 1st. What are your top tips for conserving water? Check out some suggestions below the jump....
Posts tagged “plants & flowers”
Look!: Dandelions for a Giant
Okay, we know they're not really for giants, but we kind of like the idea that even giants get wishes.......
5 Questions and Answers About Interior Plants
We recently got a chance to sit down with Deborah Kuchar, a sustainable garden designer (she's principle of Green Alchemy) and blogger. We picked her brain about common questions and concerns regardi...
The Great Compost Giveaway!
When we were pint-sized ragamuffins, Pops would pile empty garbage bins in to the minivan and drag our tiny behinds down to the horse stables to load up on good ole stinkin' horse manure. We'd haul ...
Look! Succulents in Glasses
We have some new favorite glasses from the Crate and Barrel Outlet Store. We picked them up back in November when we were looking for something to hold our paperwhite bulbs and loved the idea of sho...
Cable Car Flowers
Every single Thursday we buy fresh flowers for our apartment and almost every single Thursday we buy them at Cable Car Flowers. The location can't be beat, and the prices are fantastic. Plenty of ph...
Poison Oak: Defeating and Destroying
So a couple weeks ago we're frolicking around our backyard, planting trees and digging holes when we notice some funny looking plants and this little rhyme starts running through our head, ""Leaves ...
Guess What's in Our Card File...
Not recipes or addresses...we found a better use for our little gray box. See what we got going on below the jump......
Mother's Day Package from Branch Floral Design and Small Stump
We love this special package that Branch Floral Design and Small Stump have put together for Mother's Day -- it's not only gorgeous, it's a bit more unusual than your standard floral arrangements. ...
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 ...
Look!: Lichen Branches at the Dwell Home: Silicon Valley
We hate to brag, but we're really quite happy with our idea to incorporate lichen-covered branches into the Dwell Home: Silicon Valley. Not only does the chartreuse color work really well with the in...
Garden Update: The Vegetables are Growing!
We are such proud parents. Just look at how much the little seedlings have grown! The tomatoes won't be ready for a while, but our lettuce was just begging to be harvested.......
ELT Easy Green Living Wall Systems
Blame it on the weather, but we're going green thumb crazy. Unfortunately for us, we have no backyard. Our solution? Get a living wall! ...
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......
Tree Growing Kit at Canoe
We've been on a tree planting kick these last few weeks (10, 10-foot Sequoia Redwoods! yes, we're bragging...) and with Earth Day coming up next week, we're thinking about ways to share the forest l...
SF Good Questions: How Can My Pets and Plants Coexist?
AT:SF, Hello all! I have a lot of houseplants in my home, and looking up some information on the internet, I've found out that most of my plants are toxic to pets... ...
Vegetable Garden Using Repurposed Furniture
When we moved out of our last apartment, we left behind a few items that we were too lazy to load on to the truck. Yeah, we know...very poor form. But we also left behind some crazy crafty roommates...
Look!: Ranunculus
Ranunculus are in season here in California, and we couldn't be more thrilled. We saw this gorgeous bouquet the other day and felt inspired not only by the beauty of the flowers, but the color combina...
Egg Planters at Doe
Spring always has us itching to grow things - these days there's little we find more satisfying than watching our plants take off. The Egg Planters at Doe would be perfect hanging from a porch - a l...
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...
Garden Update: The Vegetables are Planted!
We did it! We put those cute little seedlings in our tilled and enriched soil and we're on our way to a glorious summer filled with fresh produce (fingers crossed, breath held...)! ...
San Francisco Flower Subscription from Rose and Radish
Forget magazines, how about flowers? Rose and Radish offers a customizable subscription service to have flowers delivered to you, a loved one, friend or co-worker — anyone lucky enough to be the...
Look!: Succulents at the Ferry Building
We admit it, we're Ferry Building addicts. This past Saturday we spotted this wonderful collection of succulent plants on display at The Gardener. ...
Best Plants for Your Bathroom
Since we have a brown thumb, we've always stuck with easy, long-lasting orchids in our bathroom. But rumor has it that there are a lot of houseplants that thrive (and that will freshen the air and yo...
Using Goats for Land Management (aka Weed Whacking Goats)
We took a trip to a friend's family farm last spring and fell head-over-heels-off-the-hook in love with their baby pygmy goats. We got to our usual daydreaming ways and imagined our backyard singing...
AT Daily Email
Top House Tours
Top Posts
Links
- coco+kelley
- Locally Owned Websites
- More Ways to Waste Time
- Favorite Colors
- LARSMOOTHR
- Nohea Lookbook
- poppytalk
- the cabin house
- NewDesignGoods
- Casapinka
- AphroChic
- Into the Studio
- The Daily Max
- Decorno
- Annaramma
- Housemartin
- Decorno
- Living the Swell Life
- Vancourver Rug Guy
- Casa Sugar
- More Ways to Waste Time
- Bungalow Ranch Style
design
- behind the curtains
- better living through design
- christys modern links
- crib candy
- decor8
- design addict
- design boom
- design*sponge
- destination design
- dwell designsource
- dwr design notes
- eichler network/CA-modern
- funfurde
- happy mundane
- land+living
- live modern
- living etc
- mighty goods
- mocoloco
- reluct
- shelterrific
san francisco
real estate
more friends
- craftster.org
- idealbite.com
- kfreshdesigns
- designboner
- fototiller
- design-milk
- allthatanda
- miapartamento
- silkfeltsoil
- home rejuvenation
- clothes-pin
- sfgirlbybay
- tyson williams
- fabulously green
- charles and hudson
- grass roots modern
- ikeahacker
- eatdrinknbmerry
- covetable
- uberreview
- crunch22
- modernflat
- modcottage
- this old house
- modern-roost
- pallapalla
- anticssoblonde
- elaine vigneault
Copyright © 2007 Apartment Therapy
