Gardening Archives - The Six Fifty

Growing up: How vertical plantscapes are bringing the outdoors inside

Vertical gardens, essentially landscapes installed on walls with watering systems built in, were once rarely found outside of larger corporate and public building spaces like Google, Symantec or Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Over the past few years, that's changed as more and more residents have started installing "living walls" in their homes.

Silicon Valley stinks: The science and mystery behind the rare corpse flower bloom

This week marked the first time a corpse flower has ever bloomed in San Jose and may be a first for Silicon Valley as a whole. The Six Fifty got a whiff of the excitement behind the rare event.

Blooms, birds and bees: 10 gardens to visit on the 20th annual Growing Natives Garden Tour

Gardeners and plant lovers alike are abuzz over the return of the Growing Natives Garden Tour, which went virtual the last two years due to the pandemic.

Growing where planted: How Pacifica’s only urban farmer turned a vacant lot into a lotta lettuce

It started with a backyard garden. Now, with just a green thumb and a quarter acre of land, Lenny’s Lettuce is growing in more ways than one.

Take a break from the Corona-verse via a tour of HMB’s carnivorous plant emporium

Some Venus flytraps wait patiently for a tasty fly lunch. (Image via Johanna Hickle) Take a break from the Corona-verse via a tour of Half Moon Bay’s best (& only) carnivorous plant emporium Josh Brown’s plants have needles, teeth and tentacles, and he loves them all (except the Venus fly trap) As an underclassman at Stanford University, Josh Brown cultivated a thriving terrarium with LED lights under his dorm room bed. “People thought I was growing ...