Tag Archives: downtown Los Angeles
Agave xylonacantha near 6th & Fig
I have a lot of affection for Downtown LA, our underdog of a city center that lay fallow and forgotten for so many decades, its opulent old movie palaces abandoned or turned into dollar stores. It’s a boom town now, … Continue reading
driveby garden; LAPD headquarters, Downtown Los Angeles
“The first five months of this year were the driest on record in California, with reservoirs in the state at 20 percent below normal levels.” – Arid Southwest Cities’ Plea: Lose the Lawn, The New York Times, August 11, 2013 … Continue reading
driveby garden; AT&T Center, Downtown LA
You’d be surprised how many “Angelenos” have never visited Downtown Los Angeles, even now that it is surging with vitality again. For decades it was right up there in ignominious competition as one of the most superfluous, neglected downtowns of … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, driveby gardens, pots and containers
Tagged Agave vilmoriniana, architect Julia Morgan, AT&T Center, Convolvulus sabatius 'Compact', Dichondra argentea., Dorycnium hirsutum, downtown Los Angeles, Gensler architects, Geranium X antipodeum, Herald Examiner building, mediterranean plants, Oreganum dictamnus, ornamental oreganoes, rosemary, South Park neighborhood
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Foliage Followup December 2011
400 South Hope Street, Los Angeles Mellon Bank Center An enormous agave (A. weberi?) in a sea of Senecio mandraliscae, ribboning out into massed plantings of dwarf phormium, then masses of a smaller agave, replaced by blocks of feather grass. … Continue reading