Saturday Tweets: LA’s Grim Streets, Being the Change and More Medieval Marginalia

April 21, 2018

...| James Wong https://t.co/hO4VeShnL8 pic.twitter.com/LfSuxi1DaS — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) April 16, 2018 Love following these plant hunting expeditions in Tajikistan & Uzbekistan: Adventures along the silk road. Nothing more exciting than seeing plants living free and in the wild https://t.co/h81qvNPDSB pic.twitter.com/qsQjn7IjEI — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 16, 2018 How to create a universe, in 4 stepshttps://t.co/jScQytY...

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Lessons from the 2018 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

Mr. Homegrown

April 16, 2018

Design, Gardening, Native Plants

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The gardening equivalent of Beyoncé’s triumphant 2018 Coachella performance took place on the very same weekend. Theodore Payne’s annual garden tour reunited pollinator friendly plantings, low water use and great design in a sort of horticultural equivalent of the return of Destiny’s Child. Lush and traditional garden design even made a Jay-Z like cameo appearance at the stunning stunning Wilson/Leach garden in Altadena (seen above). Native plant...

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Stickley’s #603 Taboret

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2018

Design

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...at with screen time averaging 10 hours a day for the average American, perhaps 2018 is the year we all might consider taking up a few arcane, overly complex and silly projects. It could be sewing, gardening or any other activity that takes us away from our phones and slows us down. Now I’ve got to get away from this screen and start cracking on that finish . . ....

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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...Alys Fowler https://t.co/mSGg4x4zCD pic.twitter.com/37z1Qx4zDW — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) March 31, 2018 Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. Just like the offspring of kangaroos and wallabies, baby opossums are called joeys. pic.twitter.com/pKOwZbbzz3 — NHMLA (@NHMLA) March 30, 2018 An advertising scheme launched in the 1930s is the reason so many American families‘ Seder tables include a Haggadah made...

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Saturday Tweets: Goodbye 2017

Mr. Homegrown

December 30, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...u pic.twitter.com/oqlHpv0rsd — Peter Flax (@Pflax1) December 27, 2017 "Holypager", an artwork that eavedrops on unecrypted pager messages https://t.co/kZJLZrUT0y — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 29, 2017 Typeface reviews https://t.co/70pwkf0KLC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 26, 2017 this is so great pic.twitter.com/jHiMMmRgqj — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) December 27, 2017 "Hedgehogs are doin it for themselves / Rolling on their prickly backs...

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