Monthly Archives: April 2012
Bloom Day April 2012
April deserves a thorough Bloom Day post, but if I’m to get this in before midnight it’ll have to be brief. A big change here is that the poppies of Troy, Papaver setigerum, are over sooner than I’d like. I … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day, Bulbs, Plant Portraits
Tagged Albuca maxima, Digitalis 'Goldcrest', Dutch iris 'Eye of the Tiger', Geum magellanicum, Lotus jacobaeus, Papaver rupifragum, Papaver setigerum, Pelargonium 'Splendide', Salvia chiapensis, Salvia littae, Salvia macrophylla 'Upright Form, Scrophularia calliantha, Sideritis syriaca, Stipa gigantea, Thunbergia alata, Thunbergia gregorii, Tweedia caerulea
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a lull between rainstorms
Two storms this week, unusual for April. February is usually our wettest month. The first storm arrived around midnight Tuesday, the other is due later tonight. Just before the first storm, leaves were swept, tables and chairs straightened. Later that … Continue reading
road trip destination; Nevada Museum of Art
As road trip season begins, with the price of gas being what it is, the question we’re all asking ourselves has to be, Is the gas tank half empty or half full? I vowed to make a road trip to … Continue reading
when the world gets too koyaanisqatsi
I heard this phrase a couple weeks back and thought it an instant classic, the perfect shorthand for those moments when life gets a little too fractured, too fragmented, too…out of balance or koyaanisqatsi, referring to that 1983 art house … Continue reading
Posted in garden visit, Plant Portraits
Tagged Centaurea clementei, Dustin Gimbel, Godfrey Reggio, koyaanisqatsi, sonchus species
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windows on the world
Thank you, Paris Review, for continuing Windows on the World, a wonderful “series on what writers from around the world see from their windows,” as drawn by Matteo Pericoli, first commissioned by The New York Times. My introduction to this … Continue reading
Posted in books, design, garden visit
Tagged Matteo Pericoli, The Paris Review, Windows on the World
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friday’s clippings 4/6/12
I trust we’ve all safely arrived at the doorstep of this spring weekend relatively intact. My car is in the shop from a minor crash a few weeks back, my first since I can’t remember when, and the rental has … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, Cinema Botanica, clippings, creatures, journal, Plant Portraits, shop talk
Tagged Abbey Hotel, Allium schubertii, alliums, Bonhams, Chateau Marmont, Chelsea Hotel, Colony Collapse Disorder, Irish wolfhound, Jean Shrimpton, Rob Walls photographer, Rose 'Bouquet d'Or', Terence Stamp
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hellebores in the rear-view mirror
To write that hellebores are a much-desired plant for winter gardens is stating the obvious. I grow nothing but H. argutifolius, the Corsican hellebore, and have become a repetitive bore in constantly blogging my adoration for it, but I do … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, design, Plant Portraits
Tagged caulescence, Helleborus argutifolius, Scilla peruviana
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things to do in the Bay Area after a garden show
or any other preposition that fits your schedule — before the show, between visits to the show. Of course, you don’t have to wait until the next garden show in 2013 for a visit. Building REsources, discussed before here and … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Aloe castanea, Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Bay Area, Big Daddy's, Building REsources, Cornerstone Sonoma, Eupatorium sordidum, geum, Homoglad hybrids, MB Maher, Roger Raiche, Ruth Bancroft Garden, salvage, San Francisco, San Francisco Botanical Garden, sideritis, Suzanne Biaggi, The Dry Garden, Topher Delaney, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
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