Gardening or design trend that needs to go:
Anastasia: Black mulch, plastic edging, planting in a straight line.
Favorite gardening hack:
Instead of buying hundreds of feet of plastic rolled irrigation tubing and risking carpal tunnel while you install drip irrigation, instead try overhead low flow spot sprinklers, or get intimate with your garden and hand water.
Favorite way to bring the outdoors in.
Anastasia: Cut flowers and foliage at the dinner table.
Taylor: Agreed. And don’t forget to light a candle.
Every garden needs a…
Taylor: Soaking tub (hot or cold or both). We just installed one in my home garden and its divine. I love soaking in my garden at sunset and watching the light shift through the plants. Good way to end the day.
Anastasia: Outdoor shower. Why shower inside when you can shower under the sky?
Favorite hardscaping material:
Stepping stones of any kind. Redwood boardwalk-style pathways.
Tool you can’t live without:
Niwaki shears. Tub trugs. Measuring wheel. Hats, hats, hats.
Go-to gardening outfit:
Taylor: I like to garden early in the morning, right after I wake up, with coffee and the local radio station on speaker. So that means in my stripe poplin cotton pajamas, rubber shoes (always rubber—Le Chameau or Plasticanas or thrift store scores), and whatever hat is lying around. In the summertime, often I am down to my undies and bare feet!
Anastasia: Button-down and short shorts.
Favorite nursery, plant shop, or seed company:
California Flora in Fulton, CA; Las Pilitas Nursery; Flora Grubb Gardens; Sierra Azul; Poots Cactus.
Not-to-be-missed public garden/park/botanical garden:
The Highline. Abbotts Lagoon in Point Reyes National Seashore. Portland Japanese garden—their hardscaping and pathways are the ultimate. Tunnel Tops park in SF.
The REAL reason you garden:
Taylor: The trance. There are no corners, there is no ceiling. Mental and physical health. Working so closely with the rhythm of nature has connected me to what is alive in myself. It will slow me down, other times speed me up. Morning light soak. Evening light soak. A place to show off your hard-earned work while you drink margaritas with your friends.
Thanks so much, Taylor and Anastasia! You can follow them on Instagram @talc.studio.
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