Tag Archives: Begonia grandis

a much anticipated visit to the garden of Shirley Watts

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Denise

I’ve been home for over a week, but I left my heart in….okay, not my heart, because that’s solidly esconced here at home in the LBC, but I think I may have left my sensorium in San Francisco. On the … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged "Natural Discourse", Bay Area gardens, Begonia grandis, Echeveria nodulosa, Leslie Bennett of Star Apple Edible Gardens, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mathiasella bupleuroides, Mimulus naiandinus 'Mega', Nicotiana sylvestris, The Rose Grocery garden, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, verbascums | 1 Comment

Laughter in the Distance

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Denise

Not a title to a pulpy romance novel but a snippet of Hinkley’s hilarious prose from his infamous Heronswood nursery catalogues. (The nursery was opened in 1987, bought by Burpee in 2000 and closed by them in 2006.) The catalogues … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, essay, Plant Portraits | Tagged Begonia grandis, Ceanothus thrysiflorus var. griseus 'Kurt Zadnik, Clematis recta, Dan Hinkley, Embothrium coccineum, Garden Cottage Nursery, Heronswood, Melianthus 'Purple Haze', Monrovia, Olearia 'Henry Travers', restios, Rhodocoma capensis, Roger Raiche, Roger's Gardens, Salvia verticillata 'Purple Rain', Stiga gigantea, Vita Sackville-West, Windcliff | 6 Comments