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Getting Creative with Plants at Emmadime's New Studio
The minute she laid eyes on the sun-lit, artist loft in Oakland, blogger-knitter-designer Emma Robertson, a recent transplant from LA, knew she'd found a new home for her business, Emmadime. With...
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7 Ways to Organize and Green Your Office Simultaneously
Urban gardening meets office organization. Here are seven containers that effortlessly bring plant life (office plants help us work smarter - Michelle explains why) and office organization into your...
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Confessions of a Repentant Plant Assassin: 6 Ways to Revive Neglected...
I’ve killed more houseplants than I’d like to admit. Some of that is due to having a job that requires me to travel two weeks of every month, and the other part is about not having the patience to...
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Plants on the Job: A Cautionary Tale
Not all office plants get the love and attention they deserve. When San Francisco-based photographer Kirk Crippens began work on Foreclosure, USA—an examination of the effects of the foreclosure...
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Salad Days: Grow Your Own, at Work
The perfect place to grow food crops is where it’s dry, sunny, and 68 degrees all year round. California? The Algarve? Actually, it’s somewhere closer to home—or in this case, work. According to Dutch...
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Design Sleuth: A Starburst Vertical Garden
Designed by San Francisco-based O + A, the Silicon Valley offices of Evernote feature an exuberant explosion of tillandsias against a white wall. Some people might think the vertical garden looks like...
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Gardening 101: How to Plant an Open Terrarium
If only the rest of life were as simple as growing succulents in an open terrarium. All you have to do is find a few like-minded plants, introduce them to each other, and place them in an environment...
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The Big Debate: Plants in the Bedroom?
At one of our recent editorial meetings, a discussion about plants in the bedroom revealed that Gardenista and Remodelista's editors are in two diametrically opposed camps: Love them or hate them. Why...
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10 Easy Pieces: Bulb Vases
I've decided that my bulb-forcing containment strategy needs to gain in its sophistication from my childhood bulb-forcing days. Toothpick-supported bulbs in a paper cup just don't do the trick on my...
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DIY: Grow an Indoor Compost Garden
Stews certainly help to take the chill out of winter. That's why we make a lot of these warm and hardy meals in our house. But it seems a shame to consign all the lovely leftover vegetable scraps—the...
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Garden Visit: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
It takes a certain brand of stick-to-itiveness to make it through a New England winter. Just when you think it's over, it covers April's daffodils with a dusting of snow. Luckily, there are places...
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Design Sleuth: Wire Pot Hangers
Potted plants are life affirming and full of joy, especially when they pop up unexpectedly, mounted on an interior wall. The difficulty is figuring out how to attach the cylindrical shape of a pot to...
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Back to the Future: A 1970s Style Wooden Hanging Planter
We spend a lot of time lurking on Etsy, looking for vintage bentwood plant hangers from the 1970s. There's something refreshingly modern about the simple, graceful way they frame a dangling houseplant....
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A Perfect Parasol from Sunbeam Jackie
The Brits accessorize their gardens like no one else and their latest garden must-have is a handcrafted, luxury Sunbeam Jackie Parasol, created by artist couple Charlie and Katy Napier in their 12th...
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Required Reading: The Plant Recipe Book
Baylor Chapman is a master at creating living plant arrangements. She professes that mini-container gardens rival cut arrangements not only in beauty, but also in their longevity and ability to be...
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Gardenista on Etsy: See Our Top Picks
Our friends at Etsy had a hunch that we've been visiting their gardening marketplace. Maybe it was that Michelle finally found the 1970s style wooden planters she'd been looking for through a seller on...
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All-Time Easiest Houseplant Moss Is Moving In
Spotted making itself at home at New York's recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair: preserved, unnaturally bright reindeer moss from Finland, ready to colonize coffee tables, hang from...
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Architect Visit: K2YT's Indoor Garden House in Tokyo
The house must be a startling sight to passersby in this busy residential Tokyo neighborhood. On streets where houses typically are shrouded in curtains and awnings for privacy and relief from noise,...
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The Novice Gardener: Help, Can This Olive Tree Be Saved?
I'm always nervous to return to my home after traveling; I wince at the thought of what I might find. Approaching my building, I'm always glad to see it still standing. Then I'm most reassured when two...
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Brass Tacks: Luxury Flower Pots from Sweden
The act of potting houseplants is like designing a large interior. You can't just pick out the plant and be done with it. You have to consider its full context: where it will look best indoors and the...
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