Lessons from the 2018 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

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

...| 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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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

...Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 6, 2018 ‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job https://t.co/q8RhMn391u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2018 Humility in science communication https://t.co/NAPo2gyqXP via @2020science — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2018 Monkey riding Snailman [KB, Thott 291 8º, 15th c.] pic.twitter.com/avTLZxyKTM — Damien Kempf...

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Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

Weed Life #permaculture #gardening #weeds #savetheweeds #soilhealth #dandelions #weedshavefeelingstoo pic.twitter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Cl...

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The Luddite’s Moonshot

...table wasteland, here’s a list of things they can help with: Mediterranean gardening with perennial food crops. Mammalian garden invasions, i.e. those infernal squirrels/raccoons/skunks. Meal preparation for busy people. I realize the tech bros have taken up this problem with services such as Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. But I think there’s a better way we can do this at home without the shipping and packaging. Preventing food waste in the home. In...

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