A couple of weeks ago I was up in Chicago for the Independent Garden Center trade show–this is the best show for seeing garden product trends! I’ll be posting some of my more exciting finds and trends at another time, but today I want to treat you to a little horticultural eye candy. Chicago is [...]
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Greetings from Chicago, IL! I’m here this week at the Independent Garden Center (IGC) trade show–an awesome gathering of what’s new and trendy in the garden products world! I’ll be running around Navy Pier this week (Aug. 16-18), gathering information about cool new garden products to share with you all, so stay tuned. I’ll also [...]
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I was on one of my weekly jaunts to The Great Outdoors, one of my favorite nurseries here in Austin, when I noticed some things. Some small things. We all go to nurseries to buy plants, right? But what about all the garden non-plant goodness to be had? I walked through and had fun taking [...]
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While in the San Francisco Bay area this last spring for a flower and garden show, I had the best day hanging out with my gal pal Laura Schaub at DIG Gardens in Santa Cruz. Laura works at this jewel of a garden shop on the weekends, and as it happened, our friend Debra Lee [...]
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I’ve decided to write some shorter posts from SFGS to highlight some of the amazing stuff I saw there. As a designer, I have three eyes at these shows. One sees each whole display and notes what “works” as good design. Another eye sees all the tiny kinds of things most people walk past so [...]
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I’m just now winding down from a literally whirlwind week in the Bay area, where I came to visit the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show for the second year in a row. I had an incredible week filled with meeting new online friends, catching up with old ones, viewing fabulous display gardens and getting [...]
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“It’s a great day at The Great Outdoors! This is Kelly, how can I help you?” If it wouldn’t be totally pathetic, I would call The Great Outdoors on the phone everyday just to get a lift, these people are so cheerful! And, if it wouldn’t give me a fat bohonkus, I’d drive through Chick-Fil-A [...]
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Look what I found in the Youtube archives! This is a 2007 video from The Central Texas Gardener about the wonderful adopted gardens down on Ladybird Lake, which are created through a partnership between the community and The Trail Foundation. I make my CTG debut beginning at 4:07 (how is it that a person can look [...]
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As promised, here are more pics from the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show! It’s been an incredible week so far, and I’ve really looked forward to sharing my experience with you all. Although nothing but being present would actually do these gardens justice, just close your eyes, click your heels three times and say, [...]
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Good Morning, readers! This morning I woke up in the lovely home of Rebecca Sweet (Harmony in the Garden), who is hosting me while we attend the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show this week! I flew in Tuesday morning and began tweeting about it all while Rebecca’s husband Tom tried out his pomegranite cosmos [...]
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