Category Archives: MB Maher

2012 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Denise

Before last week’s show in San Mateo, California, “Gardens For a Green Earth,” recedes into the dim past, just a few photos, not at all a comprehensive account. All photos taken by MB Maher at the preview on Tuesday, 3/20/12. … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, garden travel, MB Maher | Tagged Bamboo and More, MB Maher, pitcher plants, recycling, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show 2012, sarracenia | 4 Comments

Preview: San Francisco Flower & Garden Show 2012

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Denise

Only the first day of spring, yet garden show season has already arrived in many parts of the country. MB Maher was in attendance today at the preview to this year’s San Francisco Flower & Garden Show. Just a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, garden travel, MB Maher, Plant Portraits, The Hortorialist | Tagged 2012 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, John Greenlee, Marcia Donahue, MB Maher | 4 Comments

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

Foliage Followup February 2012

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Denise

Pam at Digging hosts this sequel to Bloom Day on the 16th of each month, a chance to stand up for photosynthesis and plead a case for the slighted leaf, doomed in most gardens to forever playing second fiddle to … Continue reading →

Posted in MB Maher, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Aloe polyphylla, Argyranthemum haouarytheum, Foliage Followup, MB Maher, Portulaca molokiniensis | 10 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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Lunaria annua

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Denise

I’ve finally discovered the identity of the little clutch of seedlings under the smoke tree. Lunaria annua, which I saw lining the pathways of *Western Hills, the former plant nursery in Occidental, California. Western Hills photo by MB Maher. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in MB Maher, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, shop talk | Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, biennials, Carol Klein, Derry Watkins Special Plants, Geranium maderense, Lunaria annua, Lunaria rediviva, MB Maher, Westbrae Nursery, Western Hills Nursery and Garden | 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

Hebe ‘Western Hills’

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Denise

Hebes are the kind of tidy plants so perfectly composed they can be accused of conveying a touch of smugness, of rendering a garden a little too safe and suburban. I take the personal position that it’s best to resist … Continue reading →

Posted in MB Maher, Plant Portraits, pots and containers | Tagged Hebe 'Western Hill's, Hebe pinguifolia, Oregon State University Dept. of Horticulture, Western Hills Nursery | 2 Comments

Anemone japonica in Southern California

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Denise

A rare sight in Southern California. There’s a garden on a bluff near a popular dog walking spot that has big, established clumps of this anemone blooming in fall, along with giant stands of Romneya coulteri, the Matilija poppy, in … Continue reading →

Posted in MB Maher, Plant Portraits | Tagged Anemone japonica, Battery Park NYC, Beverly Hills, Piet Oudolf, Southern California | 6 Comments