Category Archives: garden visit

day trip to Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Denise

It’s pushing the concept of a day trip to its limit when it takes five hours each way, there and back, but the DBG was having their spring plant sale and, dammit, I needed to go. So the math worked … Continue reading →

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Jardin Majorelle, Morocco

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Denise

What I know about Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion designer, as opposed to his enormous, well-known cultural celebrity, is limited to sewing up some of his “rich peasant” and stunning Russian collection designs off of Vogue patterns in high school. … Continue reading →

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hidden mesoamerican palaces

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Denise

not in Central America but here, in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, of textile-block construction, built for friend and photographer John Sowden in 1926. Renovations by a new owner in 2001 included restoring the stonework and the addition … Continue reading →

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exploring a coastal garden with Lili Singer

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Denise

This Pacific Palisades garden was the final garden we visited 1/24/13 with Lili Singer via the LA County Arboretum Thursday Garden Talk series. Despite being firmly in the grasp of winter this January morning, or as firm a grasp on … Continue reading →

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Aloes in Southern California

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Denise

It’s that time of year again to catch the displays of these spectacular South African succulents in bloom around town. These photos were taken mid-day at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden 2/7/13. Aloe vryheidensis. Many were of … Continue reading →

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Dear Delphine

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Denise

Dear Delphine, Like the movie Being John Malkovich, the doorway to your fertile imagination is waiting for me whenever I need an infusion of inspiration, and you never disappoint. I still find it astonishing that I can see the world … Continue reading →

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finishing up a westside garden tour

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Denise

The second garden we toured with Lili Singer on 1/24/13, through the Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden’s series “Thursday Garden Talks with Lili Singer.” The first garden toured can be seen here. The description of the second garden from … Continue reading →

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scenes from Versailles

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Denise

As promised, photos of the gardens of Versailles, the apogee of the French formal garden style, designed by landscape architect Andre Le Notre for King Louis XIV of France (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715). With itinerant photographer MB … Continue reading →

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1/24/13 Thursday Garden Talk with Lili Singer

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Denise

I had the belated, long-postponed, very intense pleasure of attending one of Lili Singer’s Thursday Garden Talks held by the Los Angeles County Arboretum, a tradition going back ten years. Lili Singer has long been so embedded and enmeshed in … Continue reading →

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driveby garden: Baker Street, San Francisco

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Denise

For those who plan to attend the garden blogger meetup in San Francisco this year, known as the Garden Bloggers Fling, here’s a tiny glimpse of what the City offers mid January. And if you haven’t decided to attend yet, … Continue reading →

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