Category Archives: garden travel

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 →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, driveby gardens, garden ornament, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Big Daddy's Antiques, Daniel Hinkley, Fleur Nooyen and Associates, formal gardens, garden designer Fleur Nooyen, garden designer Joel Lichtenwalter, garden designer Richard Hayden, garden designer Ryan Gates, Graptopetalum paraguayense, Grow Outdoor Design, Hayden Landscape Design, Irving Gill, Leucadendron ‘Wilson’s Wonder’, Lili Singer, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Mediterranean gardens, Solandra maxima | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged aloes Southern California, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in artists, design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Paradis Express | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Andre Le Notre, formal gardens, French garden design, garden history, Hugh Johnson's The Principles of Gardening, Inventing the Garden, landscape architecture, Louis XIV, Matteo and Virgilio Vercelloni, Versailles | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, driveby gardens, garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged aeoniums, Agave americana var. medio-picta 'Alba', Agave bracteosa, beschorneria, bulbinella, Chamaerops humilis 'cerifera, dyckia, Euphorbia characias wulfeniii, Garden Bloggers Fling 2013, Magnolia stellata, Palace of Fine Arts/Exploratorium, phormiums, San Francisco, sempervivums, Yucca filamentosa | 8 Comments

UCBG Natural Discourse: Form and Function 1/11/13

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Denise

The final event in the unique, year-long collaboration that the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley undertook with “artists, architects, scientists and poets in the garden,” Natural Discourse, was held Friday, January 11, 2013. As co-curator Shirley Watts explained … Continue reading →

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Natural Discourse; Form & Function 1/11/13

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Denise

Some important dates. Natural Discourse, the multimedia exhibition installed in the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, is closing January 20, 2013, so it’s now last-chance-Texaco time to get over there and have a look at its many wonders, … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, science | Tagged boophane, Deborah O’Grady, Denise Newman, Hazel White, MB Maher, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Sui, Natural Discourse; Form & Function, Shane Myrbeck, Shirley Watts, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley | 2 Comments

Amsterdam houseboat gardens

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Denise

Can you string together three other words that conjure as much bliss as those? Perhaps you can. But having been obsessed with some garden or other most of my life, and having lived with a boat captain most of my … Continue reading →

Posted in driveby gardens, garden travel, MB Maher, photography, pots and containers | Tagged Amsterdam houseboats, Piet Oudolf | 6 Comments

OC Mart Mix needs to host a garden show

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Denise

Another weekend misspent ostensibly holiday shopping (why pretend?), but in actuality just enjoying plants and landscapes, these courtesy of The OC Mart Mix. Although The OC Mart Mix was patterned after the Ferry Building gourmet marketplace in San Francisco, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Agave vilmoriniana, Cornerstone Sonoma, Ferry Building Marketplace San Francisco, Inside Out 365, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, OC Mart Mix, Rolling Greens Costa Mesa, Senecio mandraliscae, The Late Show, The Late Show Gardens | 7 Comments

High Line in late November 2012

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Denise

Must I really squeeze in one more post on the High Line in 2012? Have we become bored and cynical already about this dream of a garden on an abandoned railway trestle made real against seemingly insurmountable odds? (Yes to … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged MB Maher, Piet Oudolf, public parks, The High Line Park, threadandbones | 8 Comments