Our in-house designer Patrick Lannan’s recent design for an urban container garden in San Francisco has grown into a luscious retreat full of citrus and succulents. His plant palette in this ga...
It’s not often that artwork stops me in my tracks the way artist Michelle Quan’s does. Her stoneware bells and tree garlands carry a meditative, weighty spirit within them. Placed in the ...
Simple spring beauty in a boutonnière of forget-me-nots and strawberry. Design by Lila B. from their own gardens flowers. Photo by David E. Perry. Our friend Debra Prinzing is coming to the nursery o...
This upcoming Saturday, April 14, at 7pm, we’re co-hosting a fundraiser here at the store for my son’s school, the Potrero Hill Nursery School. It’ll be our first evening event this...
Matti & Megan live by the sea, where they go walking with their dog, Max, and pick up beautiful pieces of driftwood that they’ve made into these beautiful mounts for staghorn ferns. Matti&#...
If you love someone who loves nature, we have lots of gift ideas for Valentine’s Day. Many of them are handmade in our store. Some are available in our Web Shop. Little Heart-Shaped World It...
Kevin Smith collaborated with Lisa Lee Benjamin to create this beautiful bug habitat sculpture. My honey, Kevin Smith, is a skilled woodworker, builder, and artist. One of his pieces that has attract...
We have a big load of special aeoniums in the store right now. These Canary Island succulent treelets are peerless in their ease of care and graphic impact in the garden. Aeonium Zwartkop The cultiva...
What a Lineup This Year! We’ve worked really hard to bring in an adorable collection of Christmas tree ornaments this year. Come into to the store and pick up a house gift for a party or someth...
The Aerium Is Inspired by the Terrarium We created the name “Aerium” to describe a living plant world enclosed in glass (normally called a terrarium) that contains no “terra,” the Latin word for eart...
Yarn dyed with elderberry. Excerpted from Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess. (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2011. Photographs by Paige Green. One of the most exciting events we held this year ...
No one forgets a gift you made yourself. And everyone can keep a succulent growing. What better gift than something you made with succulents? Could this tiny potted succulent be any cuter? And...
A feast table decorated with tillandsias and Aeriums filled with tillandsias Tillandsias are such fun to play with. What are they? Tillandsias are air plants. They grow on trees, not in soil, so they...
We’re having a discussion about local manufacturing this upcoming Saturday that I hope you’ll join. Architect and designer Seth Boor with me at our first Thigmotrope Satellite garden at S...
Our vertical succulent gardens bring visitors to the nursery a sense of wonder, and many people are inspired to build and grow their own at home. We offer for sale here in the store and in our Web Sh...
We’ve just posted all of the events we have scheduled for our Thanksgiving Open House weekend. Lots of opportunities to learn and get inspired. Great new ideas for indoor gardening and DIY gree...
The vertical air plant gardens that Seth Boor and I designed for the Napa Valley’s Bardessono Hotel a few years ago were such a huge hit. After the gardens appeared in the New York Times, we got emai...
The High Line is an amazing achievement – a higher inspiration. Partly completed and open to the public the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Sid...
Equisetum is a truly interesting plant and one of the oldest on the planet – indeed we have it at the store – but it has become a staple of modern architecture because, well… it’s so predictable. At...
There are many reasons why I love this ‘DIY Succulent Table’ feature in this month’s Sunset Magazine. Firstly, the table was conceived and designed by Flora Grubb Gardens employee ...
I’m very pleased to have Billy Goodnick speaking at the store this month. We’ve been trying to share more of the work of our favorite designers in our newsletters and events. We love Billy’s wo...
Written by Amber Bravo; Illustrated by Elisabeth Moch So Flora, how’d you get that f#$%*^% awesome job? I’ve always been a gardener, and I’d always wanted to live in San Francisco because you can gar...
Daniel Nolan is a garden consultant and designer here at Flora Grubb Gardens. With our Easy Vertical Gardens event coming up here at the store on Saturday, May 21st, he gives us great early inspirati...
I’m often most pleased with a garden project when–once completed–it feels like it’s always been that way. The flow and energy of the space seem natural. ‘Castro Commons’ (also...
The Way We Garden NOW – Sustainability, Aesthetics, and Gardens with Integrity A Garden Conservancy Seminar, Friday April 15, 2011: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, in the Presidio. (fee) Flora Grubb G...
What a glorious wedding day captured so beautifully by photographer Gia Canali. The bouquets are from the Cutting Garden by our very own Susie Nadler. Sending my congratulations to bride and groom! S...
we’ve added a few fun new things to our web shop for Valentines day. I love this Walnut wood heat. Perfect dude gift, I think. Romantic, but kind of serious.
Susie and I will be speaking at Bouquets to Art. We are So Excited! Learn More Here.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 Winter Lecture Program: “Vertically Speaking” with Flora Grubb and Panayoti Kelaides Flora Grubb, noted San Francisco landscape designer and garden shop owner, wi...
We are just tickled that the gifts from our web shop ended up in Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Dwell magazine (to name a few). But, wow. We ad...
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