Pomegranate Factoids

...urself a pomegranate tree. They’ll grow in more humid climates but may not produce much fruit. Ours took five years, from planting as a bare root tree, to get the modest crop you see in the picture. It’s one of my favorite trees–delicious fruit, a red flowers in the spring and a gorgeous display of yellow leaves in the fall–what more could you ask for? If you’ve been successful growing pomegranates outside of California (and worldwide) leave a com...

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Closed vs. Open Floor Plans

...quarters with their own entrances. One even had a room just for preparing flowers and a kitchen devoted entirely to cleaning game shot from a balcony off the second story (the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills!). The “out of sight, out of mind” servant is one of the chief arguments used for the open floor plan: that is, that an open floor plan liberates the cook (often the woman of the house) from the servant role. But I’m not so sure. Sometimes...

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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The Strange World of Artificial Plants

...sses in Hollywood that do nothing other than provide fake plants. Not just flowers, but everything from corn to . . . hemp. Having a bad year with your tomatoes? Green Set Inc. will set you up with some fake ones: They even have a very large (and suspiciously shiny) fake zucchini: But I think my favorite fake plants come from a company called New Image Plants, providers of “The World’s Best Artificial Marijuana.” Customers? Marijuana dispensaries,...

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