Apartment Therapy: gardening

Pasadena Plant Bank

While we were researching native trees to Pasadena, we came upon an interesting concept sponsored by Pasadena's Beautiful Foundation. Called the "Plant Bank," this nursery employs the same philosophy...

A Multiple Plant Chandelier

Danielle posted about a plant chandelier almost a year ago, and Sköna Hem recently featured a lovely home that uses this very same idea in the dining room. However, instead of just one plant, this ch...

Repurposed Light Fixtures As Terrariums

We attended a wedding over the weekend here (which we'll post about later this week). At the reception, each table had a terrarium as the centerpiece which added color and texture. We loved the id...

Fall Project: Front Porch Flowerbed

Last Sunday, I opted to watch a crap movie instead of tackling my Fall list of Things To Do around the house; so this Sunday, I'm trying to make up for lost time. After replacing the fill tank in the...

Using Found Objects in The Garden

Old wine bottles, chipped glass stones, broken windows and torn chinese lanterns often get cast-away with the trash (if not recycled). But we're loving Barbara's lovely sentiment to reuse these item...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 09.26.09
Los Angeles

With our temperate climate the phrase "winter garden" is less of an oxymoron in southern California than in might be in other places. This week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section takes a look ...

10 Inspiring Small Space Balcony Gardens

A small balcony can be the best little hideaway as long as it isn't just a forgotten chair and a dead plant or two. Yes even a really tiny outdoor space has the potential to be a refuge from the re...

5 Messy Chic Bouquets

At this point in the summer we've haven't got any more energy for anything fussy or proper or...time consuming. So we love the idea of having some fresh picked messiness in our bouquets. They're e...

The DIY Modern Outdoor Succulent Planter #2

Inspired by Annette's Modern DIY Outdoor Planter post, Apartment Therapy reader Chris shows us all how easy of a project this is to all mimic......

Annette's Modern DIY Outdoor Planter

We're fans of any DIY that is simple, has great impact and uses supplies that are easily findable. So when we saw this great modern planter idea filled with easy to grow succulents we were intrigue...

4 Easy Ways to Keep Bugs and Pests Out of The Garden

A garden is a labor of love, even if it's just a couple of containers on a balcony. It takes time, attention and love. And normally it pays us back 3 fold with beauty, fruit and a sense of having ...

Curb Appeal: Before & After
Candian House and Home

Even though we know the power of the paintbrush, we're still amazed by what it can do. Like this home for example. The after, as well as some suggestions for making your home look better, after the ...

5 Terrariums That Are A Cut Above

In our everlasting quest for more and more ways to make a terrarium we ran across a couple of terrariums that really stood out from the crowd either for scale, creativity or just being awesome:...

Simple, Modern Trellis Idea for the Garden

We've been on the hunt for simple garden ideas and also for some modern garden blogs to really sink our teeth into. While on the search we came across 2 things we loved: this idea for an uber modern ...

3 Inspiring Garden Ideas at The Camp

Last week we met up with a retired Apartment Therapy editor while shooting a house tour down in Costa Mesa. He showed us some sights and we stopped in at The Camp, an outdoor mall, for a quick bit ...

Michel Bussien's The Growing Tree Chair

Last month we fell in love with the Pooktree Tree Shapers Living Furniture over on Apartment Therapy San Francisco. We've always loved the idea of a tree grown in the shape of a chair and wondered if...

Big Plants Indoors?

A couple years ago, in a fit of longing for greenery in my loft in San Francisco, I went out and bought a huge houseplant. Well, it was more like a tree (or at least that is what the bum who lived aro...

Mow Down Air Pollution: Trade-In for an Electric Lawn Mower

Almost missed this bit of news mentioned in last month's Westways magazine: the South Coast Air Quality Management District is sponsoring a program called "Mow Down Air Pollution", offering LA, Orang...

Aging Clay Plant Pots

We're a big fan of clay pots but they often look too new to us. We love how they look when they've gotten some age on them but although we scour flea markets and beg them from friends, it can be a ch...

Outside Elegance: Dream Garden

Oh man, are we ready for the end of this truly heinous week...damn. We are so looking forward to the weekend, especially since June gloom seems to be over (knock on wood). On tap for tomorrow: Tying ...

Roundup: 9 Inspiring Vertical Gardens

click for more picsAfter posting about Intelligentsia's vertical garden we felt compelled to dig a bit deeper and find some other way cool gardens that make good use of vertical space. Not only are t...

Inspiration: Intelligentsia Venice's Vertical Garden

click for more picsThe long awaited Intelligentsia in Venice opened last week so we stopped by to take a look for ourselves. The west side location is very different from the look of the Silver Lake ...

11 Tools For The Garden: A Dream List

How's your great outdoors shaping up? Whether you've just recently developed the gardening bug or your green thumb's been sprouting for ages, you've realized that you need more than just your hands t...

Keeping Out Intruders Using Your Garden

We've always admired our neighbors front garden--it's a bit wild and scary (but beautiful at the same time). While these prickly agaves aren't planted directly underneath windows, the massive groupin...

A Simply Chic Patio for Entertaining

One suggestion that always comes up when it comes to hosting a successful party--be it indoors or out--is to keep the party moving. If you've ever watched an episode of the Barefoot Contessa on Food N...

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