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Succulents That Don’t Suck in Winter
Succulents are my one true love (sorry, honey). Even though everyone is now drinking the succulent Kool-Aid and they’ve become more ubiquitous and overexposed than the Kardashians—I still covet them,...
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Just Don’t Call It “Whimsical!”
It’s been a pretty bad work week for me, and it’s times like these—when I’m ready to go into full mental-meltdown, panic-attack mode—that I appreciate stuff that makes me laugh. Life (at least on good...
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Attack of The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show (*Or How I Created a Show...
Rejoice garden lovers! The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show is almost upon us. You are probably overjoyed and giddy, right? But me…? It gives me sweaty palms and an irregular heartbeat just...
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The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show Part II: Hunting and Gathering the...
If you read my last post, you will learn how an unknown, small-potatoes designer (me) decides to build a garden for a world-renowned garden show, and then proceeds to turn into a neurotic, stressed-out...
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It’s Garden Show Time! (Or How To Say “Yes, Those Are Real Alligator Heads”...
After months of feverish preparation and frequent night terrors, the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show had arrived. Somehow— even though I hate to ask people for anything–I sweet-talked a slew of...
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Not Really A Recap Of This Year’s S.F. Flower and Garden Show
The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show was last week, and, oh yeah, baby—I experienced a glorious week of parties, plants, and all things right with the world. The main draw of the garden show, is...
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Smokin’ Hot Public Plantings
I am a sucker for well-designed and well-maintained plantings in public places. When the plant choices are thoughtful, inspired, evocative, and sustainable—I find myself wanting to shout, “THIS IS HOW...
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My Garden, Myself
If anyone wants to get to know the real me, all they would have to do is come over and spend some time in my garden. I unabashedly love my garden. I’ve spent the last twelve years (alongside my...
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New Orleans, A Love Story
If there is one city on this planet that has no problem letting its freak flag fly, it’s New Orleans. Oh my, am I in love with this city. Five years ago, after a lifetime of yearning to go there, I...
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Sassy Spanish Courtyard Garden
Every now and then a landscape project comes along that is soooo in my wheelhouse that designing it and implementing it doesn’t feel like work at all. This was one of those tasty little projects....
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