Tag Archives: The New York Times
my new earrings (via collaboration of Molly M Designs & Roberto Burle Marx)
You know how one thing leads to another, and before you know it there’s a new pair of earrings coming in the mail? Let me explain. There’s a Roberto Burle Marx exhibit right now at the Jewish Museum in New … Continue reading
Posted in artists, design, garden travel
Tagged "Revisiting the Constructed Edens of Roberto Burle Marx" by Holland Cotter for NYT, "The Builder of Jungles" by Martin Filler, Brazil, Jewish Museum, landscape architecture, Molly M Designs, Rio de Janeiro, Roberto Burle Marx, Summer Olympics 2016, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times
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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
clippings 9/30/13
While on the subject of concrete, precast manhole covers, stacked. I prefer to have a day’s worth of concrete projects if I’m going to drag all that mess out. Found at BHG here, but the link loads slow. I was … Continue reading
in love with my garden
It’s Earth Day. Or the day after, to be exact. Let’s hope being a day late is not a portent of things to come. So this morning after, I’m sending mash notes to Earth for making my little garden possible. … Continue reading
wall street occupies central park
From Wikipedia: “Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.” New York City’s Central Park has found a patron to rival the Medicis. Hedge fund manager John. A. Paulson has gifted … Continue reading
gardenbrain
I will be forever indebted to *Eric Liu and Nick Hannauer for coining the word “Gardenbrain” in their op-ed in the 7/10/12 edition of The New York Times “The Machine and the Garden.” I’ve always had one. Turns out our … Continue reading
the spell of the present
Though we may occasionally argue about what a garden is, I think we can all agree that what a garden does is cast a “spell of the present.” I loved this eminently quotable piece from Diane Ackerman a couple days … Continue reading
Saturday’s Clippings 4/28/12
I enjoyed this article very much earlier in the week, well worth a Sunday read: “Any patch of earth, large or small, turns out to be a mad surprise party of species — fluid, unpredictable and wild — and a … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bulbs, clippings, design, garden ornament, garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, science
Tagged "Counting Species on a Little Patch of Earth", Agave 'Felipe Otero', Agave attenuata 'Kara's Stripes', Agave attenuata 'Raea's Gold', Agave Coast Landscapes, arctotis, B&D Lilies, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Catalina Ironwood, Desert to Jungle, Dustin Gimbel, Fermob garden chairs, Gary Hammer, Huntington Botanical Garden plant sale April 2012, Laura Dalton, Lily 'Lankon', Lyonothamnus floribundus, Potted gifts for the garden, San Marcos Growers, Sarah Robinson/Sarah's Gardens, Second Nature Garden Design, South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
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