Category Archives: garden visit

the children’s garden at the Huntington

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Denise

The last time I visited the Huntington Botanical Garden a few weeks ago, the prevailing theme for the day was kids in the garden. Moms with toddlers and strollers were everywhere. Field-trip kids in the cactus garden trudged along the … Continue reading →

Hazel White: Aesthetics of Inundation

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Denise

UC Berkeley Botanical Garden’s symposium “Natural Discourse” held February 10, 2012, has been constantly in my thoughts this past week, whether riding the train, driving freeways, staring at the garden. I’d never visited UCBG before and found the physical location … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, essay, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged "Natural Discourse", "Peril As Architectural Enrichment", A Pattern Language, Berkeley Natural History Museums, California College of the Arts, Chris Carmichael, Christopher Alexander, Hazel White, Isabelle Greene, Jay Appleton, Kelsey Press, Luis Barragan, Mary Anne Friel, MB Maher, Pacific Horticulture, Paul Licht, Personal Helicon, Richard Turner, Saxon Holt, Seamus Heaney, Shirley Watts, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden | 6 Comments

“Natural Discourse” 2/10/12 UC Berkeley Botanical Garden

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Denise

The kick-off symposium to the year-long collaboration between UCBG and invited artists and writers will be held Friday, February 10, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Natural Discourse” co-curators are Shirley Watts and Mary Anne Friel. Any attendees of … Continue reading →

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garden of flowing fragrance in miniature

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Denise

The architectural scale model of the Huntington’s Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Phase One completed and opened to the pubic in February 2008. The scale model was mesmerizing. A miniaturized, perfect world unto itself. I haven’t seen Phase I yet of … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit | Tagged Garden of Flowing Fragrance, Huntington Botanical Gardens, miniatures, scale models | 4 Comments

mid-week garden jaunt

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Denise

There is a beloved, family-owned nursery in Pasadena that, over the past couple years, has become breathtakingly expensive. My now-20-foot Chinese fringe tree was bought here as a sapling they raised from seed. Many of my agaves were found here, … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, plant nurseries, succulents | Tagged acacias, Aloe dolomitica, Aloe vanbalenii, aloes, Chionanthus retusus, Golden Barrel Cactus Echinocactus grusonii, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Montezuma cypress, opuntia, puyas, Romagna Purple artichokes, veltheimia | 4 Comments

percolating

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Denise

The garden continues to percolate along in a quiet January fashion. Poppies, lunaria, Orlaya grandiflora, and Geranium maderense seem to be what’s on the menu for spring — their seedlings are everywhere. A nice problem to have and easy to … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bulbs, garden visit, Plant Portraits | Tagged Agave guadalajarana, Agave snout-nosed beetle Scyphophorus acupunctatus, Ammi visagna, Athanasia acerosa, Helleborus argutifolius, paperwhite narcissus, phormiums, Senecio mandraliscae | 5 Comments

gentlemen, stop your motors

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Denise

The Los Angeles Times ran this piece in their Pro Portfolio section on Monday, December 26, and it really deserves another look. The article profiles the home garden of Katherine Spitz, of Katherine Spitz Associates, Inc., Landscape Architecture. The Pro … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit | Tagged drought tolerant plants, Katherine Spitz Associates, landscape architecture | 7 Comments

pieces of Rancho Reubidoux

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Denise

The inaugural Rancho Reubidoux Bazaar took place this weekend, a truly one-of-a-kind experience amounting to a physical journey through Reuben’s blog posts, a kind of dimension-pushing experience with flash mob overtones. Blogging in 3-D, so to speak. At my last … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit, pots and containers | Tagged assemblage, flea market, garage sales, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz, salvage | 6 Comments

Villa Mundo Nuevo

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Denise

This fall photographer MB Maher revisited this Northern Californian residential garden designed by landscape architect Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture and built by contractor Jim Everett of EvLand LLC that won the 2010 California Landscape Contractors Association Trophy Award. … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, edibles, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged 2010 CLCA Trophy Award, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Evland LLC, formal gardens, Interleafing, Jarrod Baumann, Jim Everett, landscape architecture, Laura Livengood Schaub, mediterranean climate, Northern California, Villa Mundo Nuevo, Zeterre Landscape Architecture | 9 Comments

this week on AGO

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Denise

A new garden in Los Gatos, California, by Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture, re-explores formalism in the landscape and proposes that modern materials like steel do not necessarily equal chilly results. Not when forged with a plant lover’s sensibility. … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged California, Jarrod Baumann, landscape design, Los Gatos, MB Maher, Zeterre Landscape Architecture | 1 Comment