Tag Archives: New York
scenes from Long Island
It looks like the heat is fairly evenly distributed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend. In between dipping into a steaming hot garden to cut back agastache, anthemis and senecio, I’m catching up on work and going through summer … Continue reading
Posted in garden ornament, garden travel, garden visit, pots and containers
Tagged Aruncus aethusifolius, begonias, greenhouses, Knautia macedonia, Landcraft Environments, Long Island, Longhouse Reserve, Ltd., Lysimachia punctata, Madoo Conservancy, New York, Old Westbury Gardens, Solandra maxima, Vireya rhododendrons
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consider the leaves
We have Pam at Digging to thank for hosting this monthly celebration of foliage. This month I’m focusing on some of the leaves that impressed me during recent garden travels as well as examples from the back pages of AGO. … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Acacia pendula, Aloe striatula, Bernard Trainor, bromeliads, CA, conservatories, Garden Bloggers Fling 2013, garden designer Dustin Gimbel, garden designer Rebecca Sweet, Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers, Hakonechloa macra, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Landcraft Environments, landscape architect Jarrod Baumann, Long Island, Longhouse Reserve, Lysimachia nummularia, Muehlenbeckia axillaris, New York, Planting Fields Arboretum, San Francisco, Zingiber malaysianum
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suitcase plants
Any plant is potentially a suitcase plant as far as I’m concerned, but these agaves and the Euphorbia ammak would present especially prickly challenges. Though I suppose, like anything, where there’s a will, there’s a way. But TSA might be … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged "Can You Take Plants on an Airplane?", Agastache 'Summer Glow', begonias, Dan Heims, Euphorbia ammak, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, LAX Encounter, Long Island, New York, Pennisetum 'Jade Princess', Planting Fields Arboretum, Plectranthus 'Emerald Lace', Terra Nova Nurseries
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Ethan Hawke fondles switchgrass at the High Line
There’s an attention grabber. No, that’s not a recent tabloid headline and, yes, I am being facetious, but I find it amazing that the High Line (and switchgrass!) is casually slipped into a bit of puffery about the current goings-on … Continue reading
Posted in creatures, design, garden visit
Tagged Baltic parsley Cenolophium denudatum, Ein the corgi, Ethan Hawke, Isoplexis canariensis, Nepeta 'Walker's Low', New York, panicum/switchgrass, Papaver rupifragum, pathways, public parks, Sideritis syriaca, Stipa gigantea, The High Line Park, The New Yorker
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High Line jeremiad
Some interesting Sunday reading to be found in another nuanced, contrarian view of the High Line Park in New York City. I know, not another post on the High Line! I can’t help it, I’m utterly fascinated by this subject. … Continue reading
Got Cranberries?
We stumbled into this sight, an impromptu cranberry bog, at Rockefeller Center this past October. Who on earth could be behind such a spectacle? Exquisitely appropriate seating for the occasion in the form of picnic tables and benches running down … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera
Tagged Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish, Martha Stewart, New York, Rockefeller Center
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