Category Archives: MB Maher
Dinner at Dustin’s
A word of advice. An invitation to dinner at Dustin’s should never be passed up. Yes, he is a wonderful cook (Salade Nicoise with salmon, chocolate ganache torte). But prowling around his garden to see what he’s been up to … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher
Tagged Annette Goliti Gutierrez, Dustin Gimbel, MB Maher, Potted, Reuben Munoz
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Palms & Lawn
I’ve had a very interesting past couple of days. (Interesting in my usual narrow, horticultural sense of the word.) Thursday I finally made it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to check out up close the new Eli … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, garden travel, MB Maher, succulents
Tagged Agave guiengola 'Creme Brulee', Anne Raver, Austin, drought, Eli Broad, Furcraea foetida 'Mediopicta', Getty Center, Jim Dugan, Kelly Griffin, LACMA, lawn replacement, Licuala peltata, Mark Simmons, Rancho Soledad Nursery, Ravenala madagascariensis, Renzo Piano, restoration ecologist, Richard Serra's Band, Robert Irwin, Texas, The New York Times
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Foreword to Piet Oudolf Landscapes in Landscapes
I didn’t dare take this beautiful book on the recent camping trip, so it sat waiting in a quiet house. A couple pages behind the cover’s brisk Helvetica type is this arresting foreword by Robert Hammond, co-founder of the High … Continue reading
Devils in the Details
I’ve been pestering MB Maher to shake loose some more video work, and he keeps telling me the coffers are empty at the moment, that he’s hard at work on a new series on designers tentatively titled Field Studies. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design, garden visit, MB Maher
Tagged MB Maher, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz
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Succulent Experiments: A Tutorial
What a surprise that Apartment Therapy liked the hanging planters for succulents I blogged about recently. The ones made from…um…car jack stands. Which we just happen to have in abundance here at home because there’s a couple 1970’s Volkswagen vans … Continue reading
San Marzano Tomato Taste Test
After maligning the San Marzano tomato in my last post, an update seems in order. Following a thorough and deep watering, the vine may not have tomato blight or cucumber mosaic virus or whatever ailments a tomato succumbs to. My … Continue reading
Sean Hogan at Flora Grubb Gardens
On Sunday, July 17, 2011, Sean Hogan of Cistus Nursery, Portland, Oregon, gave a talk at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco, California, entitled “The Art of the Rosette.” I’ve visited Cistus Nursery twice, so I know first-hand that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bulbs, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents, The Hortorialist
Tagged Agave 'Spot', Agave schidigera 'Black Widow', Agave schidigera 'Durango Delight', Agave schidigera 'Shira ito no Ohi', Aloe 'Brass Hat', Cistus Nursery, eucomis, Flora Grubb Gardens, Hechtia texensis, Mangave 'Bloodspot', Mangave undulata 'Chocolate Chips', Opuntia fragilis, Plantlust, Sean Hogan, Tradescantia sillamontana, Yucca angustissima 'Southside', Yucca nana, Yucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies'
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Big Daddy On The Move
“You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.” Maggie the Cat, daughter-in-law of Big Daddy, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Me, too, Maggie. It’s clearly going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design, MB Maher
Tagged Big Daddy's Antiques, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, MB Maher, Shane Brown, Tennessee Williams
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Another Look at the Huntington
I promise this will be the last post on my recent visit here. Unless I get around to writing about John Frame’s exhibit, which I urge any steam punk aficionados in the LA area to get to post haste before … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher, Plant Portraits
Tagged Art Collection and Botanical Gardens, Cedrus atlantica, Elastic Chair, Euphorbia 'Blackbird', Foeniculum vulgare Bronze Fennel, John Frame, Lonicera hildebrandiana Giant Burmese Honeysuckle, Lychnis coronaria, Punica granatum, Rose 'Sally Holmes', Salvia 'Indigo Spires', Salvia pratensis, steam punk, The Huntington Library
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Come Any Time
Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino (Pasadena), California. MB Maher and I visited on Saturday, May 28, 2011. As I wrote here, one of the reasons we visited on Saturday was to catch some puyas in bloom. But there’s always … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, MB Maher, succulents
Tagged Aeonium percarneum, Agave 'Blue Flame', Agave franzosinii, Agave ovatifolia, Bromelia balansae, Colletia paradoxa, Cussonia spicata, Echeveria agavoides, Euphorbia ambohipotsiensis, Euphorbia atropurpurea, Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society, Puya spathacea, Puya venusta, San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society
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