Current Obsessions: Last Light of Summer

Here’s a look at what we’ve had on our radar recently:

• Prints of things so neatly arranged, by Emily Blincoe. And they’re for sale!
• “Here one year, gone the next”? A guide to growing echinacea.
• We’re making this peach and blackberry crumble for Labor Day weekend.
• Today marks the start of a three-day Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
• We’re crazy for this tabletop from Rip + Tan’s latest installment about summer entertaining. Can you guess what the party favors were?
• For city dwellers with no outdoor garden space: Hanging houseplants are the next best thing.
• The architects were challenged with creating a nature center that wouldn’t disrupt the landscape at Ohio’s Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. We approve; what’s your take?
• According to the New York Times, most urban farmers are women.
• Floret Flowers talks with designer McKenzie Powell about Pinterest’s impact on the floral industry.
• With fewer homeowners under 35 years old, is garden retail in trouble?

For more posts from this week on Gardenista, see Chasing Fireflies, and don’t miss Remodelista’s Summer Wrap-Up.