30 Beautiful DIY Succulents Centerpiece and Arrangement Ideas

I love all things Spring, especially gazing balls! Florida really does have seasons, albeit not the four commonly known to the rest of the world. For us SW Floridians it's a brief but great time of year between our seasons: blistering heat, torrential rain, hurricane/mosquito and tourist season.

Kim Cornelison

Zinnias are annual summer flowers that originated in Mexico and other areas of South and Central America. These daisy-type flowers are found in a variety of bold colors, including red, orange, pink, purple, yellow, and white, and they have hundreds of tiny petals surrounding a yellow-bordered central disc.

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Explore the world of DIY container water gardens and bring nature’s serenity into your home. With these creative ideas, you can transform everyday containers into peaceful aquatic oases, perfect for growing water-loving plants.

Looking for a budget-friendly way to upgrade your porch? Learn how to turn plastic plant pots into a beautiful DIY urn planter with this easy tutorial!

The fig plant is a small tree that can grow anywhere from 3 to 30 feet. The tree bears fruit which are the figs. If you have the patience, growing these gems of flavor is well worth it. Humans have been consuming this fruit for thousands and thousands of years, dating back to approximately 7000 years ago. Originating around Northern Asia, figs captivated Greeks and Romans, which led the fruit to spread around the Mediterranean region. Around 1520, it is believed that missionaries traveled to Southern California, bringing the fig, which led to the development of the mission fig variety. Evidence of figs has been found during excavations of neolithic sites and is believed to be one of history’s first domesticated crops.Jump to the recipe. 

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The day I meet David Godshall, one of the founding members of the progressive landscape architecture firm known as Terremoto, I climb the concrete steps outside his home in East Los Angeles, open a worn hinged gate, and see his garden for the first time. What I find is not quite what I was expecting, yet it makes perfect sense. Rather than the composed plants and austere rigor of the poolside landscaping Terremoto designed for actor Mandy Moore, for example, Godshall’s own garden is a tangle of mostly native and low-water plants, placed in a way that seemed haphazard but that the plants seemed to love. A dirt path is surrounded by bursts of unruly pitcher sage, sprawling California buckwheat, and Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’, all flourishing under the canopy of a Western sycamore. Cross-sawn timber planks from fallen local trees that otherwise would’ve been pulped weave through the yard like mini-bridges for his kids to play on. Raised beds tumble down the slope. A fashionable composter (yes, there is such a thing) sits under the eaves of a house that’s been painted black. Meanwhile, in one corner, a clawfoot cast- iron bathtub sits on a humble wood-plank base. This, I find out later, is where Godshall likes to bathe. 

You don’t often hear about sizable bathrooms feeling cramped, it’s usually a small bathroom feeling like tight squeeze. But that was the case in this San Rafael, California primary bathroom, which “felt dated and felt a bit cramped considering what a large space it is,” according to interior designer Corine Maggio of CM Natural Designs, who oversaw the project.

Otherwise known as toyon, California holly, or Christmas berry, Heteromeles arbutifoliais an excellent slope-stabilizing and habitat plant, host to myriad insects including pollinating butterflies and moths.An iconic staple of California chaparral and oak woodland