Tag Archives: MB Maher
the French Laundry’s Culinary Garden
“One score and seven minutes ago our partners brought forth on this town, a new restaurant, conceived in finesse, and dedicated to the proposition that all food is served soigné.” — Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry celebrating its 20th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in edibles, MB Maher, photography
Tagged California, kitchen gardens, MB Maher, Napa Valley, Thomas Keller's The French Laundry, vegetable gardens
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Shirley Watts in “Curbed”
The Garden Bloggers Fling hostess for the 2013 meetup, garden designer Shirley Watts, got a nice writeup in the Bay Area’s Curbed today. Very gratifying to see a primarily real estate magazine throw some love at landscapes and gardens too. … Continue reading
What to do with your lawn when there’s a drought
Just lose the lawn and don’t look back. And if and when rainfall in California ever gets back to normal levels, which isn’t much anyway, you just might realize you want your lawn back about as much as you want … Continue reading
flea market 101
Getting to our first ever flea market as buyers sellers last Sunday was a journey of just five miles. Still, it was epic in scope and had all the hallmarks of a serious expedition: Not sleeping the night before, endless … Continue reading
Posted in commerce, design, garden ornament, MB Maher, pots and containers
Tagged collecting, concrete objects, Dustin Gimbel, flea markets, Kris Peterson Late to the Garden Party, Long Beach Antique Market, MB Maher, non-secateur, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz, ropework, salvage, VW bus
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Stanford’s New Guinea Sculpture Garden
More updates from the Bay Area, this one from occasional AGO photographer and contributor MB Maher. I’ll let him tell this adventure in his own words: “Shirley Watts messaged me to keep my Wednesday evening open. And per her instructions, … Continue reading
in the news
Since the government shutdown, I’ve been checking in with The New York Times at an increasingly feverish pace, several times a day, (and doing little else, it seems), so it was in real time that the story on James Golden … Continue reading
hillside with Schwentker Watts Design
I was in a wonderful garden the other night, but was caught flat-footed as far as having any photos to show for it. Although only 7:30ish, twilight doesn’t last long in this Los Angeles neighborhood but is quickly swallowed up … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, climate, design, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Bocconia arborea, Cupressus macrocarpa 'Citriodora', Franco-Giacomo Carbone, Harvey Watts, James Schwentker, landscape architecture, Los Angeles, MB Maher, mediterranean climate, Schwentker Watts Design, Silverlake, The Los Angeles Times
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swirly skirts and aloes
On the Xericworld forum you can expect to find some of the most technical discussions around on desert plants, but photos of a fashion shoot among aloes and agaves? That was a surprise. From the March 2012 issue of You … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, MB Maher, photography
Tagged Beth Mullins, Gardenista, MB Maher, Xericworld, Zoltan Tombor
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Occasional Daily Photo 7/1/13
The garden continued its beguiling ways while I was away, offering up new studies in green and blue, umbellifer and thistle, as the samphire, Crithmum maritimum, sent up blooms through the eryngium that just gets bluer and bluer every day. … Continue reading
Rick Frausto’s Kitchen Window With Beakers
When photographer MB Maher was in town a couple days ago, I told him that I keep bumping into one of his images in my travels through blogs and Pinterest boards. It’s one he took many years ago of Los … Continue reading