3 Inspiring Garden Ideas at The Camp

Last week we met up with a retired Apartment Therapy editor while shooting a house tour down in Costa Mesa. He showed us some sights and we stopped in at The Camp, an outdoor mall, for a quick bit to eat in a yurt. Despite being a mall, the landscaping was gorgeous: lots of succulents and xeriscaping, raised vegetable beds and the best looking green roof we've seen: Images 1-3 : We love the simple metal structure that holds up the terra cotta pots filled with succulents. There's nothing f

Garden Ideas : Make a Tree Look Like a Giant Plant with the Tree Pot

If you are looking for some ideas for your garden, then this might be something interesting. Have you ever tought at a pot for a tree ? Just take a look at these images to see how a tree would look like in a pot. The Treepot can create the illusion that there is actually a pot, but the pot is made out of 2 identical parts. It can be placed around trees which are already there, so no cutting, chopping otherwise digging is necessary, simply click the 2 parts of the Treepot around it also top up

Almost Foiled By A Cyclops

All I wanted to do was project some PowerPoint slides of planting combinations on the screen and teach my eager students to become brilliant designers. I had spent an hour picking out images that range from simple harmony / contrast studies to more complex garden ideas. But instead, I was lured into a bloody battle between man and machine. Chaos erupted as I tried to get the goddamn computer to see the shiny cyclopean creature clinging to the ceiling, motionless, but whirring with delight.