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

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
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
The history of farming in the West is interwoven with that of Japanese-Americans. The first Japanese immigrants, or Nikkei,… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
When founding publisher of Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine, Dana Meacham, moved into her Castle… Read More
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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
About a decade ago, reports began to surface of new research on how “forests” of… Read More
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
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
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
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
We only recommend things we love. If you buy something through our site, we might earn a commission. We already know that… Read More
An article published in The Guardian earlier this month has been making the garden news… Read More