About Growing Conditions
A newsletter about designing outdoor spaces for living. Spanning beyond the ecological realm, it serves as a resource center that gathers the functional objects, outdoor furniture, and architectural features that give form to gardens. Published alongside personal reflections on running a landscape design studio in California and digging into the various fields of research, tools, and systems.
About Plantkind
Plantkind is an outdoor spatial design company. We design landscapes that are site specific and deepen your relationship with the natural world, while utilizing an open creative process and design system. Our work is the intersection of native plant palettes and modern built environments for people to gather. This practice of gardening intends to create a more equitable world that honors and provides sustainable ecosystems for all life.
About Lily
Plantkind is being grown by Lily Bodnar, a gardener and artist, with previous experience at design-build firms, native plant nurseries, national design organizations, branding studios, and venture-backed education technology startups.
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You can learn more about Plantkind on our website. Along with the official Plantkind account on Instagram, you can follow Lily on Bluesky, Twitter, and Threads if you're still on social media these days.
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