‘Pure flower power’: Getting nosy with Pacifica’s Shen Aroma Farm

Mary Pancoast of Shen Aroma Farm’s blooming brand is based on her creekside patch of land in Pacifica. From those idyllic headquarters she grows flowers, keeps thriving hives of honeybees and offers a variety of handmade products, all infused with scintillating scents from essential oils and produced with an environmentally friendly ethos. 

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Seven secret gardens of the 650

The Peninsula is flush with large-scale gardens like Gamble Garden, Filoli and Montalvo, but there are many gardens hidden in plain sight that are there for you when you need them.

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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.

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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 ...

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