Sexy & sexist: Winnipeg takes design outside for the next 12-14 weeks.

Summer. Coveted, glorious, all-too-short-in-Manitoba summer.

Finally permitted by the elements to leave our homes, Winnipeg’s design community turns to that most earthy, dirty-hands milieu: landscape design. Also known as gardening.

Hitting Shelmerdine’s on May long is a gardening tradition, and I thought you’d like to see the level of hot design finds they’re stocking, including modern garden pieces by accessory gods Abbott and Torre & Taegus.

I was amused by the message inside the $250+ Pure by Elho planters, suggesting that while women may not be able to afford their premium price wares, surely their husbands could (Text: “She said I love this—He really adored her).

We’ve been seeing this message in retail since the days of Wilma & Betty brandishing their husbands credit cards & yelling “charge it!”, but I didn’t expect it imprinted in fibreglass in the year 2011. I have a job, Pure, and can afford my own damn gardenware. Nice design feature, though, and lovely typography ಠ_ಠ