Current Obsessions: The Garden at Night

How to use every part of your pumpkin, a dark DIY bouquet, and eight other things to know about this weekend. Take note:

• ‘Tis the season: toasted pumpkin seeds, three ways.
• And: a DIY black thistle bouquet for late fall.
• A new kind of biodegradable paper designed with bees in mind, honey flower seeds included.
• Plus, 5 things to do with your pumpkins, post-Halloween.
• Today from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Fort Greene, Brooklyn: an opening reception for Dandy Farmer‘s bonsai studio. Head here for more info and to RSVP.
• For SF readers, a seasonal sale of native plants.
• Macrame plant hangers were in (1970s) then out (for decades), then in (2012) then out, and now… making one is just a calming way to spend the day. There’s a workshop in LA this weekend; check it out.
• Calling all modern witches: attend a plant meditation workshop in San Francisco on October 28.
• 10 times Ikea storage looked expensive.
• And, a shipshape captains’ house in Provincetown with views of the harbor.

Previously in Obsessions:

• Current Obsessions: The Londoners
• Current Obsessions: In the Orchard
• Current Obsessions: Autumn, Deconstructed