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Do You Landscape With Tropical Foliage?
This moody koi pond, from Josh Schwartz's former home in Los Feliz, benefits from lush, tropical foliage. Do you have any around your home?
Do You Landscape With Tropical Foliage?
Cool Idea: Curtains to Improve the View
Missing pretty foliage outside your window? Just because you live in a city flat with a window facing a next-door brick wall doesn't mean you have to suffer. You can let these Chair Couture Green Collection Curtains (inquire for price) compensate for your landscape loss.
Open House: Overwintering Plants
In the San Francisco Bay Area, I rarely have to worry about a frost, which means that I can leave plants out all year round without incident. I know that's hardly the case with readers living in the Midwest and on the East Coast, though.
Steve, over at Gardening Gone Wild, recently wrote, "I overwinter a host of plants in my cold dark basement.
Garden Therapy: California Tropical
Lou Dixon, owner and designer of Bio-Friendly Gardens, recently gave me a tour of one of his client's home gardens. The owner, a chef and horticulturalist, loves tropical foliage. Her garden features a delightful mix of tropical plants, succulents, more traditional flowers, and lush trees.
Midday Muse: Sweet Green Dreams
Green is said to be a calming, restorative color for bedrooms, but the energy of this room feels a little too excited for me. It's very lush and would definitely provide a wonderful respite to the browns of Autumn, but tell me, would you find this room sleep worthy?
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Home Away From Home: A Garden Tour in Laos
GiggleSugar recently traveled to Laos, where she snapped a ton of gorgeous photos of her hotel, surrounding homes, Buddhist temples, and bountiful gardens. Take a look at this slideshow of her pictures from Luang Prabong, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. To take this tour, in GiggleSugar's own words, check out the slideshow.
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Plants That Purify: Chinese Evergreen
We all could benefit from a cheap and beautiful way to improve a home's indoor air quality. That's why I'm bringing you an ongoing series on house plants that are particularly good at purifying the air.
Next up in our series is the Chinese evergreen.
Midday Muse: Backyard Paradise
As I was reading through AT:LA, I paused at this gorgeous photo of AT:LA reader Justine's backyard. Everything about it just makes me want to stop, linger, and relax until she kicks me out. From the comfy seating to the tropical foliage to the glass lanterns, it's absolutely spot-on lovely.
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