{"id":9330,"date":"2010-11-07T21:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T01:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2018-05-24T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:19:36","slug":"dustins-ballsy-totems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=9330","title":{"rendered":"Dustin&#8217;s Ballsy Totems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>These stacked spheres are currently the stony exclamation points embellishing <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/dustingimbel\/Site\/Home.html\">Dustin Gimbel&#8217;s<\/a> Southern California garden\/design laboratory\/plant nursery.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2229.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dustin has described his fascination with the geologic anomaly of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concretion\">concretions<\/a> on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/non-secateur.blogspot.com\/search?updated-max=2010-10-05T23%3A08%3A00-07%3A00&#038;max-results=7\">non-secateur<\/a> and how his obsession with them led him to a concretion <em>homage<\/em>, these spherical eruptions in the front garden, which he is experimenting with in anticipation of a coming project for a client. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2230.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellmaher.org\/\">MB Maher<\/a> visited earlier in the week, and then Dustin gave me a tour this afternoon and generously loaded me up with plants to take home.  Don&#8217;t ever admire a plant in his garden unless you&#8217;re prepared to have it ride shotgun on the way home.  Thanks, Dustin!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2251-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2216.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Left foreground, Senecio anteuphorbium, with dark aeoniums behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/PB077443.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dustin&#8217;s own gorgeous selection of the dwarf fountain grass, Pennisetum &#8216;Eaton Canyon,&#8217; which he has named &#8216;White Dwarf,&#8217; is destined to be a classic.  Manageable size, great flowering, a beautiful landscape grass.  Keep an eye out for this one at nurseries soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2240-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_2246.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cascade of silvery leaves on the right is Acacia pendula.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/PB077453.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Echeveria gigantea<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/PB077445.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we can&#8217;t leave Dustin&#8217;s garden without another look at his now iconic variegated St. Augustine turf ottoman, which gives new meaning to &#8220;lawn furniture.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/PB077460.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who feel they&#8217;re not quite ready to part with a lawn because they still need it under their back for an occasional bout of cloud gazing, perhaps a turf chaise lounge or ottoman would do just as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/PB077439.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stacked spheres are currently the stony exclamation points embellishing Dustin Gimbel&#8217;s Southern California garden\/design laboratory\/plant nursery. 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