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How cool is this growing business card? It’s for a landscape architecture firm called Tur & Partner. It appears that it is embedded with seeds that, when watered, grow up through the landscape blueprints like little trees. Love it! Via Apartment Therapy.

Apologies to commenters that had to wait four whole days to see their comments up – I was unable to login all weekend. This post was meant to be posted on Friday for some slacker fun, but hey, it’s a short week. Start it off right with a peek at my friend Jer’s blog: This […]

Maryam over at My Marrakesh has tagged me with the Nine Weird Things meme. In the Hallowe’en spirit, I’d like to introduce you to: Nine Spoooky Things About Me 1. I’m deaf in one ear. I was born that way. There are pros and cons to this. Cons are things like not following group conversations […]

I apologize for my site being unavailable this morning. I’m still unable to post photos so I’ll save Part 2 of yesterday’s “do” for later – hopefully tomorrow at the latest. Again, apologies, and thanks for reading! UPDATE: WTF? I don’t know what’s up with my site right now. Grr.

Q. What kind of bride drags her new husband to a botanical garden while on their honeymoon? A. A gardener, of course. (I also would have accepted “a sensible one”.) That’s right, I’m married! As of August 27, Ben advanced from “boyfriend” (or sometimes, if I was feeling mature, “partner”) to husband. The wedding day […]

Warning! Gratuitous, only-vaguely-related-to-gardening (and only then because the photos were taken in my garden) photos follow. But it’s about time you met Schnoopette, my six-year-old calico. And, I couldn’t help myself! She’s totally cuteoverloading. Look: *Hmm… what have we here?* *Let’s give it a try…* *Crrronche!* Schnoopette, I love you. Even if you are going […]

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. It was great to read your stories. It seems many of us share a common start to gardening: our parents. Or more specifically, our mothers. That’s why it’s kind of cool that the first name drawn was Emma, who wrote that she’s getting into gardening because she wants […]

Welcome to the new home of Heavy Petal. Please update your links and bookmarks. I’m hugely excited about how pretty this new site is (thanks, Industrial Brand Creative!) and to celebrate its launch, I’m having a contest! The fine people at CobraHead have agreed to give five lucky Heavy Petal readers one of their tools. […]