Garden Gravestones & Naughty Yachties | 4M #157 Welcome to the hundred-and-fifty-seventh edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #157, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit! Gravestones in the garden A South Carolina woman […] Read More
Construction has begun on One Beverly Hills, a nearly $5-billion condominium and hotel complex that promises to transform the Beverly Hills skyline and be a commanding presence on its western edge. With tall greenery-laden towers standing over a sprawling garden, the complex set to open by early 2028 is expected […] Read More
When it comes to starting a vegetable garden, the question is not if but when. With the prices of everything, including vegetables, not coming down in the near future, it makes sense to economize wherever possible. And then there are the bonuses that come with growing your own: You can […] Read More
5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. If you haven’t done so by now, plant cyclamen. This is the most regaled flower of the winter months and with ample justification due to its silky flowers that resemble inverted lampshades in red, pink, purple, salmon, or white. Dwarf […] Read More
“Fall is in the air. Time to plan spring blooms.” These words of horticultural wisdom come from Jenna Christensen who gardens in Manhattan Beach. New beginnings in the garden come twice a year: In the fall, when we plan and plant according to what we want to bloom next year […] Read More
5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. Plant giant Napa cabbages. These beauties are longer than they are wide. Both the pale green to white, Chinese ‘Aiko’ cabbage and the ‘Purple Express’ extend up to 12 inches in length. These disease-resistant cabbages are still susceptible to predations […] Read More
It’s time to consider coreopsis. No garden should be without it. I thought of it after receiving a photo taken by Linda Vaningen that featured coreopsis flowering prolifically, the result of successful germination of the seeds of California pollinator plants she had sprinkled over the area. This was done in […] Read More
