Containers

What is Your ‘Little Black Dress’ of the Garden?

I did a little plant shopping yesterday.  I wanted to get my planters looking pretty but this season I wanted it to be as quick and simple as possible because with all my other projects I just don’t feel like I have the time or creative brain-space to dedicate to the task at my normal [...]

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Spring Tulip Planters

I love changing out my containers for the seasons.  After many years of doing this sort of thing for clients on a large-scale, it is nice to just do one or two around my own house — I can play and experiment in a way that isn’t always possible when the arrangement has to meet [...]

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Trend: Shelved Gardens

A couple of months back I was chatting with a new garden friend when she openly wondered what the next big garden trend will be.  I have to admit — while I look for design trends all the time…I hadn’t thought much about the big arcs of our collective garden specific tastes.  I think it is fair [...]

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Spring Home & Garden Essentials – Wabi Sabi Style

In just a bit I am going to pack up my computer and head to the airport and make my way back to Boston.  I’m dreading the flight, but looking forward to getting home (particularly after a crazy week of psuedo-vacation and mind-blowing events). I always return from trips with a renewed sense of wanting to make [...]

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Arik Levy Design

You know those funky little v-vase shaped wooden trellis’ that come shoved in grow pots with climbers?  They do the job long enough to get the plant out of the nursery — but you know what I am talking about when I say — only just. But the idea of a pot based trellis that [...]

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New Products – Green Bricks, A Modern BBQ & Pretty Pots

I have a quick little round up of some exciting products that crossed my desk recently Green Bricks – An easy (*looking*- I have not used them) way to make that sea paving a little more permeable and a whole lot  prettier while you are at it.  The bricks hold dirt and fit with other [...]

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Kochia Containers?

After coming across this image on Pinterest with the note “Kochia, the summer pot plant in India” — I had questions. First — what is Kochia (never heard of it, have you?). Second – How do I grow this?  Clearly it is spectacular in that it looks like some sort of highly touchable by-product of [...]

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