Ever see something in a garden that’s so cute you just have to wip out your camera to take a picture (even if it means you’ll be late in picking up your kids) …
These violas are so precious, I wish I had cracks in my front walk for them too... © 2011 Twolipps
Tired of plants with a short flowering season? Try my neighbor’s trick…
…just ‘plant’ plastic flowers in the your front yard. NO ONE will know! Continue reading
Where, oh where has my little horn gone...? © 2011 Twolipps, Izel Plants
I was pretty excited when I bought a cow skull at a yard sale last spring. I had wanted one ever since going on vacation to West Texas. My inspriation? This garden wall at the historic Gage Hotel in Marathon, about 70 miles outside of Big Bend National Park.
Skull garden art at the Gage Hotel in West Texas. © stemmy
However, my long suffering husband, thought that hanging a cow skull in our house was rather gruesome. Continue reading
A bouquet of Anthurium from Hana Flowers.
Hawaii is known for having a very diverse climate, right? Rainforests, dry forest, alpine, sub alpine shrubland, it has got them all. On my last trip there, I saw several souvenir businesses dedicated to sending fresh “Hawaiian” flowers to friends, family or even to yourself on the mainland. Seems like an interesting idea, no? Continue reading
Well, this is what my yard looks like out the window behind my laptop:
The view out my window. @ 2010 Twolipps
Which means there’s not a whole lot of gardening going on ’round here. But I did come across Continue reading
It all started with this picture...
It all started with a blog post about Christmas tree ‘living ornaments’, that are made of air plants, like the one pictured above. ”It’s too precious!” I said to myself. And as I’ve mentioned before, I have a crazy friend that is obsessed with air plants… I thought, I’ll just buy one for him from Flora Grubb and scratch that item off my Christmas to-do list.
But then the bean-counter in me raised it’s ugly head: am I essentially buying a $24 perishable Christmas ornament, that he’d be throwing out along with the Christmas tree? And even if it does survive a few months, ugh, he’d have to use distilled water, because the tap water in this city will leave a hoarfrost-like mineral deposit inside the glass faster than you can say ‘yuletide glow’.
ohhhhh. My favorite magazine, Garden Design is giving away a $500 gift certificate to my favorite destination nursery… Hurry sign-up before December 26, 2010.
How cool is this for an idea? GardenSpace is a way for your iphone to to map out all publicly accessible gardens near your current location. Currently this only works in NYC- which is a shame. I often find myself wishing for a little green space when I travel. And really that is when this app would be at it most useful, because when you travel you are unlikely to stumble upon cool little gardens without a local friend to guide you. Or this app.
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Yesterday’s dreary cold rain has me taking stock of my indoor plants and more to the point, my friends’ plants. Continue reading
© Twolipps
Today I went to an ol’ favorite garden, one that’s like comfort food. I’ve been going to Brookside Gardens since I was about 3 feet tall. Fall color was the order of the day, and Brookside had it in spades…
On a hot muggy day, Cranesville Swamp on the border between Maryland and West Virginia is a fun treat. It was a bit cooler than the area around Deep Creek Lake where I had been staying. I was intrigued into going based on Nature Conservancy‘s description of the area: Continue reading
