Scout Regalia at Shelter Half

For those of you in Los Angeles, you can now see our entire line of Scout Regalia products over at Shelter Half located at 161 S. La Brea Ave. Stop by and also check our White Oak Mini Planters which are currently only available at Shelter Half!

Color of the Year 2012: Vermilion Red

Introducing our SR Garden Kits in our color of the year for 2012: Vermilion Red. Our SR Patio Garden Kits (DIY & Assembled) and our SR Raised Garden Kits are available in this orange-red color exclusively on our website. Happy Gardening!

Summer at Headquarters

We've had a pretty busy working summer so far, so our posts might be a bit more sporadic than usual. Lots of fun things coming up!

Our SR garden products will be available at Product Porch starting this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Check out the store from the masterminds behind Specific Merchandise and The Vitrine.

We'll also have an installation as part of the HDTS 2011 weekend at High Desert Test Sites in October.  Stay tuned for updates!

Remodelista Booth at Dwell On Design 2011

We were really excited to have a booth at the Remodelista Marketplace during Dwell on Design this year. We had our SR Garden Products and SR Wall Pockets for sale, along with information about our entire product line. It was a great experience and we're so glad that we got to meet so many wonderful people. We also debuted our hand-painted Scout Regalia sign over the weekend. Thanks again to everyone who stopped by!

Charcoal Grey Gardens

It's here!  New for the 2011 gardening season, we are excited to introduce SR Garden Kits in our select color of the year: Charcoal. This is the first color option available for the SR Garden Kits outside of SR Green. The SR Raised Garden Kit and SR Patio Garden Kit will be available in Charcoal through 2011.

The dark grey hue of Charcoal brings to mind wrought iron structures with timeless industrial influences. Charcoal was also chosen as a color that would complement the grey tones of aging of wood used for the raised gardens and patio gardens.

The SR Raised Garden and SR Patio Garden Kits in Charcoal are exclusive to our website and available only at www.scoutregalia.com.

SR Patio Garden as Record Storage

Our latest solution to storing vinyl records at headquarters: using our SR Patio Garden as record storage. Works brilliantly!

First Day of Spring 2011

It's finally the first day of Spring!  We have a few exciting things that we're working on here at headquarters, and we'll be sharing our new ideas with you soon.  In the meantime, now is the perfect time to start planning your garden!

We just discovered an amazing new resource for all sorts of plants from seedlings to full grown palm trees.  Persson's Nursery in Pasadena has a wide variety of plants and a huge selection of fruit trees. We also just started looking online for heirloom seed resources, and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds looks pretty amazing.

Of course, you can start your garden planning by building an SR Raised Garden in your backyard. And if you don't have a backyard, you can start your own home grown garden in our hardscape friendly SR Patio Garden.  Happy Spring!

XANADU at Specific Merchandise

The magical world of XANADU is right here in Los Angeles!  The holiday show at Specific Merchandise brings together nearly 50 designers and artists for the largest exhibit yet at the gallery storefront.  Curator and owner Brooks Hudson Thomas has done an amazing job bringing together so many talented designers for the show.  The space looks amazing, and we hope all of our friends in Los Angeles have a chance to check it out.

We are super excited that our entire line of Scout Regalia products is part of this show (!!!).  To display our SR Wall Pockets, we built a 15' tall "pennant" with over 200 hanging wall pockets.  In addition,  the show includes the SR Outdoor Table Set, garden kits, and our latest product, the SR Bookcase.  The show also features work from our friends at design,bitches, todosomething, Von Tundra, WELCOME, Winter Session, artist Morgan Maclean, and some amazing handmade shoes by Dragan Mrdja.

More information about the show is available here, and more pics of the installation of the wall pocket pennant are on our flickr feed.

XANADU
Specific Merchandise
7374 Beverly Blvd
Through December 24th

SR Patio Gardens at Specific Merchandise

We are super excited to be part of D'ARK GARDEN, the summer group show over at Specific Merchandise, the new gallery/store on Beverly Boulevard.  We are thrilled to be part of the show with so many talented young designers, including LA artists D'ARK who created the two beds in the space, Woolly Pockets with their plant chandeliers, seedbomb vending machines by Common Studio, and a few beautiful chairs designed and fabricated by todosomething.  This and so much more will be on display through July 31st.

For the group show, we built and planted two SR Patio Gardens- one with a forest ecology and the other with a desertscape. We used un-planed reclaimed redwood from The Reclaimer, which we wrote about a few weeks ago.  The scapes are already taking on a life of their own, with new floral shoots coming out of the succulents in the dryscape, and mushrooms popping out of the groundcover in the forest ecology.  We're looking forward to seeing these ecologies become more wild and feral as the weeks pass.

D'ARK GARDEN
July 10- July 31
Specific Merchandise
7374 Beverly Blvd

Reclaimed Lumber in LA

We recently went back to The Reclaimer to check out some stock for an upcoming project.  The lumber yard in Sylmar is a great source for reclaimed wood here in LA.  We scourced some redwood from them a few months ago when we built the planters for The Residences at the W Hollywood.

This time around, there was some amazing live edge burnt oak that they had recovered, along with some huge pieces of doug fir.  We ended up getting a few pieces of reclaimed redwood, un-planed this time, that we'll be using for an upcoming exhibit that we will be part of at Specific Merchandise in July.  We'll keep you posted!

SR Patio Gardens at The Residences at The W Hollywood

Photo: Tim Street-Porter

Photo: Mike Kershner

We are very excited to announce that the SR Patio Gardens are now part of the Eco Residence, GREEN + VINE at The Residences at The W Hollywood. You'll find three of the SR Patio Gardens on the lovely terrace overlooking Hollywood and Vine in the new "Eco Unit" that is part of the the new residences at the W Hotel in Hollywood.

Van Patter Design brought us on for the project, along with dozens of local designers and artisans to create an eco-unit that was unique and regional.  To keep with the eco-local theme of the unit, we used reclaimed redwood sourced from The Reclaimer, a great place to find a variety of reclaimed lumber in the Los Angeles Area.

More information and images about the project can be found on the GREEN + VINE website. And you can recreate the same look with our SR Patio Garden Kit, or start your patio garden with an SR Patio Garden that's already assembled.

SR Packaging

We've made a conscious effort to try and package all of our SR products in the most efficient and "ready to ship" means possible. Our cardboard packaging is customized with a Scout Regalia stamp on the side, and a line drawing of what the product will look like after assembly. When you order our SR Raised Garden Kit (DIY/Staked) or the SR Patio Garden Kit (DIY), expect to find this package at your doorstep.

We're Branding- The Old Fashioned Way

We are very excited about our new brand- in the oldest sense of the word. Did you know that the word "brand" comes from the Norse term brandr, which means "to burn"? Our Scout Regalia wood brand allows us to discreetly make our mark on the underside of our SR Outdoor Table Set and the SR Patio Garden Kit (Assembled). It's a really fun process to do and watch, and we're currently resisting the urge to brand everything in sight, including toast.

Summer Garden Seed Starting

Have you started planting your seeds for your summer garden yet? Here in Los Angeles, it seems like the growing season is all year round, which for the most part, is true. However, summertime does yield some of our most abundant vegetables, the heartiest of which we grow from seed. A great resource for finding out when and what you should plant in your growing zone is the good 'ole Farmer's Almanac.

We went all out this year with a goal of starting our entire garden from seed. We've started with zucchini, pole beans, poblano/ anaheim/ jalapeno peppers, green peppers, eggplants, shiso, and a half a dozen variety of heirloom tomatoes.

And for fun, you can document your growing seeds with Hipstamatic, a new photo application for the iPhone that will make it look like you've traveled back in time to do your gardening.

SR Product Postcards

For each of our products, we design 5" x 7" information postcards that go into a little more detail about the product. With our latest releases, we created double sided postcards for the SR Outdoor Table Set and the SR Patio Garden. Since our Outdoor Table Set comes with 210 color options, we thought it would be a great way to showcase the rainbow of choices for the enameled finish. These postcards, along with information cards for all of our other products, are downloadable on our website. Below are links to the info cards for the latest Scout Regalia products- enjoy!

SR Outdoor Table Set

SR Patio Garden