Pamela Crawford’s Living Wall Planter holds nine front plants, six side plants and three top edging plants.  14″ tall x 14″ wide x 5″ deep Square.

Includes side planting replaceable coco-fiber liner and J-Hooks for hanging. J-Hooks hold single planters away from the wall, allowing for air circulation. Tuck a plastic bottle cap or cork under bottom corners to hold them out.

Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013 is the largest event ever to have received green certification from the City of Montreal.  The event will run from June 22 thru September 29th

The 2013 edition aims to amaze visitors while raising their awareness of the importance of preserving the richness of life on Earth. The theme of the exposition, Land of Hope, reflects the mission of the organization and represents the very essence of the event. The organizers have integrated sustainable development practices at every level.

The 2013 edition presents more than 50 creations from some 20 countries. The event will test the participants’ ingenuity as they compete to win the Grand Honorary Award given by the international jury as well as the Qatar Airways People’s Choice Award. The hundreds of thousands of visitors expected throughout the summer will also be able to take advantage of a special programme which includes the creation of a collective work of art, interactive conferences and vignettes illustrating the importance of the biodiversity that surrounds us.

Los Angeles-based fine artist Greg Kalamar paints colorful scenes of wedding celebrations in the likeness of a classic Degas or Monet.

Kalamar only takes on around 25 weddings  annually.  At each, he sets up an easel and finishes an acrylic on canvas in three to four hours.  Couples can discuss size, color scheme and request with Kalamar beforehand.  Or, as a gift unbeknownst to newlyweds, it’s a most cherished surprise.

As seen in California Style magazine, Fall Weddings 2013 issue.

Flower Magazine Summer 2013 issue has a lovely feature on Martha Stewart‘s gardens at her various estates.

“I’ve been gardening since I’ve been walking. Dad put me in the garden when I was three years old and taught me what was a weed and what was not a weed.  Of six kids I was the one with the green thumb.  I would do it for hours and hours.

I absolutely loved it. I have always been an avid gardener.” explains Stewart of her horticultural origins.

Town & Country magazine, Spring issue, artfully uses florals to highlight the spring fashion lines of noted designers such as Christian Dior, Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Moschino, Dolce & Gabbana, and Donna Karan.

Seen at left is Donna Karan New York gown ($6,800); Sophie McElligott headband (price on request); Tom Binns necklace ($1,315); Erickson Beamon earrings ($54); Chanel rings (prices on request); Kim Lone umbrella (price on request).

When Caroline Scheufele moved into an 18th-century villa in the rustic village of Prangins in Switzerland, she was immediately seduced by Lake Geneva, the body of water that is literally at the foot of her garden. “Living next to the lake is a magical experience — the sky lights up the garden and we never see the same shades of green in the trees,” says Scheufele, co-president and artistic director of Chopard, the 153-year-old Swiss firm owned by her family and renowned for its diamond-encrusted watches and luxury jewels dripping with precious and semi-precious stones.

While Scheufele doesn’t design her collections al fresco, she has found much inspiration within the 1,200 oak trees she planted to border her land. To celebrate Chopard’s 150th anniversary, she created a glittering menagerie of jewelry.  The collection includes dazzling flowers, of course!

To read more, see Veranda magazine, March-April 2013 issue.

For much of this past year, visitors to the New York Botanical Garden have been treated to a transcendent experience.  In a singularly ambitious exhibition, the NYBG re-created the Impressionist’s famous French garden in exquisite detail… filling the conservatory courtyard ponds with the same varieties of water lilies that Monet grew and immortalized in his paintings.

Changed out seasonally, the exhibit included all of Monet’s favorites: irises, poppies, nasturtiums, roses, delphinium, and foxgloves.

As seen in flowermag.com Winter 2012 issue.

In her forthcoming volume, “Flowers”, Carolyne Roehm describes being so devoted to tulips that some years she plants as many as 10,000 bulbs.  Gardening is her passion, and her photographs of its blowsy stars are reverant works of art.

The West grows the most Christmas trees, but, it has also helped to spawn the artificial tree revolution.  One thing remains the same:  The choice of tree is an emotional decision.  Do  you seek robust A-line perfection, or does a forlorn Charlie Brown pine tug at your heart?  Perhaps this fascinating article in the December  2012 issue of Sunset magazine will help you to decide.

West Coast business owners, Tom Norby of Trout Creek Tree Farm in Corbett, OR, and Thoms Harman of Balsam Hill in Redwood City, CA, share insight into their real and artificial tree companies.

Heather Pando of L.A. design studio, Little World Design, use botanicals in a whimsical fashion—a style translated to this wreath.  With her team—including Manuel Acosta, who put together this piece—she fashioned “blossoms” out of scallop shells and glued them to a manzanita frame that resembles driftwood. littleworlddesign.com

To get this wreath project kickstarted, Hank Jenkins of  SF Bay Area firm, Lushland, simply took a walk. “What’s here is what grabbed my attention in my own garden and on hikes.” Despite the fresh take on materials, he keeps the color palette traditional with green eucalyptus pods and red pincushions (leucospermum).

Zenaida Sengo of Flora Grubb Gardens and Susie Nadler of Cutting Garden in San Francisco, created this colorful holiday wreath of  kumquats, dried palm stems, red leucadendron, green citrus leaves.

As seen in December 2012 issue of Sunset magazine.