Favorite Shops & Nurseries

Cottage Gardens in Petaluma – Garden Up’s next stop!

by Rebecca Sweet 22 April 2011

If you love clematis, edibles, succulents and everything in between then Cottage Gardens of Petaluma is nursery you MUST visit! Many already know this nursery as one of the best sources around for unusual varieties of clematis. But Bruce Shanks, the owner, has clearly been bitten by Succulent Fever.  Everywhere I look there’s unbelievable specimens [...]

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DIG Garden Nursery – A new Santa Cruz treasure!

by Rebecca Sweet 8 January 2011

If you’re a gardener who loves succulents, contemporary design, chickens, canning, birds, living walls and books, then this Northern California garden shop is the place for YOU.  Just over a year old, DIG a much needed refuge from the more ordinary and commonplace garden shops which dot the coast. Cara and Will Meyers (who also [...]

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A Day with Lila B. Design

by Rebecca Sweet 3 November 2010

This past weekend I had the pleasure of spending a Saturday afternoon in San Francisco with Debra Prinzing, Susan Morrison and Baylor Chapman of Lila B. Design.   The purpose?  To not only have fun, but to get a behind the scenes tour of Baylor’s unbelievably cool floral design studio.  Join me to see what [...]

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Green Design – Indoor & Outdoor Plantscape

by Rebecca Sweet 26 June 2010

. Do you ever walk down a busy street and you see a hint of something cool peeking out from the doorway of a building, and you just KNOW something good is about to happen?  Well that’s what happened to me the other day when I was in San Jose and stumbled upon Green Design [...]

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Tomatomania

by Rebecca Sweet 24 April 2010

. . WOW.  I was up in Sonoma last weekend and attended the ‘World’s largest traveling  heirloom seedling sale’, called Tomatomania. , We happened to stumble upon this event, and the timing couldn’t have been better as not only am I ready to plant my annual 2 tomato plants, but we were heading over to [...]

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At Annie’s Annuals with Growing a Greener World

by Rebecca Sweet 22 April 2010

On Feb 7, 2011 the Growing a Greener World team (Joe Lamp’l, Theresa Loe, Chef Nathan and Christa Hanson) will be guest-hosting #gardenchat on twitter. Just log in from 6:00-7:00 PST, and type in #gardenchat to see the entire live, rapid-fire stream. Truly, you’ll feel like you’re at a party where the topic of the [...]

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How will you celebrate Earth Day?

by Rebecca Sweet 13 April 2010

Earth Day is April 22, and I’ve been invited to participate in a blogging event hosted by Jan Huston Doble’s blog Thanks For 2 Day, where garden bloggers are writing about ways in which we’re making ‘greener gardens’. I’ve decided to write about two of my very favorite organic garden products:  Haven’s Authentic Brand Soil [...]

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What REALLY goes on at Annie’s Annuals….

by Rebecca Sweet 10 April 2010

. . This past weekend was Annie’s Annuals Big Spring Party, and since my birthday was a few days ago, this was what I asked for from my family – a family ‘field-trip’ to see what it’s all about… . And Holy Cow – what a party this was! . . . . . . [...]

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My very first Author Review….(and book review, too!)

by Rebecca Sweet 8 April 2010

. This is my very first official ‘Book Review’.  But since there’s already so many wonderful reviews of Debra Lee Baldwin’s Succulent Container Gardens out there, I thought I might do something a little different – review the AUTHOR first, and THEN review  the book. . I mean, really – who doesn’t want to know [...]

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