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MilkWeed: Go Green During Winter with Terrariums

As green leaves turn brown and the sky more gray than blue, it's a good time to think of saving a little summer green for the indoors via te…

Milkweed: Park Dweller or Beach Bum? There’s Only One Answer if You’re a Fan of Green

Downtown Los Angeles just got a lot greener, and is the perfect example of why I’ll take a sea of green over the ocean blue any day. Still…

MilkWeed: The Best Green at Dwell on Design

Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center was back June 22-24, 2012 for its annual show – larger and better than ever. It&#…

MilkWeed: Succulent Tapestry Lawn

Most seasons, the natural hillsides of Los Angeles can be downright barren. Brown and dusty, what one wouldn’t give for the pop of col…

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MilkWeed: Spring Greens

Each year about this time I get the bug. I wander on Saturdays through all nurseries near my house, from Home Depot to the neighborhood mom …

MilkWeed: Color Fields – The Landscape of the Saguaro Palm Springs

If you’ve been in Target or Gap lately, you’ll know that bright colors are back this season. So the new Joie de Vivre hotel, The Saguaro…

MilkWeed: The Eames – Alive and Well and Green

On my first academic trip to Los Angeles over ten years ago I visited the Eames House in Pacific Palisades. Frozen in time, preserved in the…

MilkWeed: Greening Your Modern (mini) Home

I have a new obsession, perhaps stemming from architecture school and years of making my designs in small scale, but lately I’m so ob…

MilkWeed: Blank Slate – Garden Walls

This is all I can show you of my garden wall. The embarrassingly sparse, white, windowless stucco back wall of my 60s modern box house has s…

MilkWeed: Plants Need Not All Be Green

Editor’s note: Please welcome our newest contributor, Kara Bartelt of kara b. studio and toHOLD. She will be taking over the MilkWeed colu…