Author Archives: Heather Arndt Anderson

Let’s Make a Pantry Raid Meze

I love how a healthy meze — or a smorgasbord of salads, breads, dips, and appetizers — gives me an excuse to consume approximately a gallon… Read More

How to Pot Up Snake Plant Pups

Now that we’re easing into spring (and many of us are more housebound than usual), it’s a good time to take a look at your… Read More

What Japanese-American Farmers Did For the West: A Brief History

The history of farming in the West is interwoven with that of Japanese-Americans. The first Japanese immigrants, or Nikkei,… Read More

For the Love of All That Is Good, People, Please Don’t DIY Your Hand Sanitizer

We love a good DIY, but for real, you all, this is not the time for trying to save a buck on cleaning products. Read More

Rethink Plant-Based Dining: These Restaurants and Bars Have Incredible Houseplants and Florals

With studies continuing to show the stress reducing and even soothing effects that come from interacting with plants, it’s no wonder restaurants are becoming… Read More

Clear Decks, Fresh Mulch, Can’t Lose: Our Garden Spring Cleaning Guide

Ah, spring—a time of rebirth and renewal, a time of possibility, a time of…chores. Now that our gardens are awakening from their winter rest, we,… Read More

Find the Real Super Blooms This Summer with the Ultimate Floral Road Trip

We all love the vast expanses of California’s wildflower super blooms — but over-tourism is seriously impacting some areas. Cal Poly botany and ecology… Read More

Check Your Floroscope—Here’s the Perfect Flower for Every Astrology Sign

Hey there, what’s your sign? I’m a Magnolia (with a Poppy rising and an Orchid moon, to be specific). If I just… Read More

Feng Shui Brings Harmony to a Colorado Garden

When founding publisher of Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine, Dana Meacham, moved into her Castle… Read More

The Best Hoses to Quench Your Garden’s Thirst All Year Long

Sure, it’s more fun to shop for plants, but garden hoses are a requirement for keeping most things alive. Every garden needs a different… Read More

The Best Garden Gloves for Every Type of Gardener

From trimming the spiniest shrub to planting the tiniest seed, gardening can take its toll on our hands. (We swear, even gardening in fresh, soft… Read More

These Vintage Botanical Illustrations Will Have You Gaping in Wonder

It’s not every day that 150,000+ vintage illustrations of the natural world go online, free for all to download and use. But that’s just what… Read More

Roses Are Dead, Violets Are Too: Here’s a Better Way to Bouquet

Roses are rad, but admit it: they’re a little on the nose for Valentine’s Day and anniversaries, and we know you can do… Read More

These Plantable Cards Are Sweet and Easy to DIY

“We only recommend things we love. If you buy something through our site, we might earn a commission.” These DIY plantable cards, made with seed-embedded… Read More

Plant Parents Rejoice: A New Houseplant Emoji Is Coming Soon

Coming soon to a device near you, what we’ve all been waiting for: a new batch of emoji. In addition to the expanded list of… Read More

The West Had a Fiery Summer and Fall. How Will Plants Rebound This Spring?

Between the California fires over the past few years and the more recent/current cataclysm in Australia, there’s a reason why firescaping is a hot… Read More

Meet Pando, Methuselah, and More of the World’s Oldest Trees—Right Here in the West

We all intrinsically know that trees are old—the oldest life forms on our planet, prehistoric in some cases. Among all life on earth, they have… Read More

Artificial Trees Could Save Us All

About a decade ago, reports began to surface of new research on how “forests” of… Read More

Created for Prohibition a Century Ago, These Sodas Are Still in Our Rotation

We only recommend things we love. If you buy something through our site, we might earn a commission. As we cruise into the Dry… Read More

Fake Plants Are Evil—You’re Not. Grow Real Ones.

Look, we get that plants can be demanding, in that, like all living things, they have survival needs and, ergo, the potential to die. And… Read More

Meet the New It Plant for 2020

Variegated (“fancy-leaved”) caladiums have been popular houseplants for decades—they’re even in old houseplant books from the 1960s—but lately we’ve been seeing tons of them… Read More

You’ll Soil Yourself Laughing at These Plant Memes

We know it can be kind of a tire-fire out there in the real world, but we think it’s okay to take a minute here… Read More

Relieve Stress with Visits to These Fragrant Places, from Lavender Farms to Redwood Groves

We only recommend things we love. If you buy something through our site, we might earn a commission. We already know that… Read More

Trees Grow Best When Planted in Square Holes, but You’ve Known That for Awhile

An article published in The Guardian earlier this month has been making the garden news… Read More