Plants

Sophora prostrata

I am highly influenced by the convergence of beautiful photography with fantastically different plants.  Such was the case when I stumbled across a post at Leila’s about some houseplants that she is testing out. This image of Sophora prostrata made me gasp.  I am obsessing over those little baby fern leaves – and I must have one.  I found them [...]

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Hybrid Tea Roses

Yesterday, a post that I worked on with my friend Andrew went live in my column on Apartment Therapy. We had fun with it and it was the summation of an email interview/conversation between the two of us. Quite surprisingly (at least to me) — some people really didn’t like it. It goes with the [...]

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Hoar Frost & Winter Gardens

Have you ever heard that bit about their being lots of Eskimo words for snow? True or not, it is a fact that we more commonly use words for things we experience commonly.  So I offer that as an explanation for why I (at least) haven’t really ever heard of hoar-frost.  Frost has always just been [...]

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Cistus Nursery

First of all, at least once per day, I make sure that I work with plants. I either look, touch, prune, read about, design with, or order plants. That is why I love my job. Currently at work, we are finalizing our orders for the spring planting season. I needed a few plants for a [...]

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Michael Pollan at Berkeley

I know it can be hard to find 70 or so extra minutes in your day to sit and watch something that will get you really thinking.  But if you can find it….I implore you to watch this. In fact – you don’t really need to watch – just listen while you do something else. [...]

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Inspiration from Lambley Nursery

I discovered a fantastic new site for dry garden inspiration.  That Lambley Nursery and gardens in Victoria, Australia is on the other side of the world matters little to me as I am using it to discover new plants and see them used in ways I haven’t enjoyed before.

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A Truly Regal Cardinal Flower?

If you followed the news much in the past week, you undoubtedly heard about archeologists confirming the remains of Richard III. A team had found his skeleton under a parking lot in the middle of England last summer. They recently confirmed that these remains were his by tracing the DNA back from modern day descendants. [...]

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