Author Archives: Denise
Garden Conservancy Open Days – Hancock Park
I did not attend this tour, but MB Maher was in attendance at a preview held last weekend, and then was sworn to sit on the photos until after the tour, yesterday in fact. So rather than a narrative of … Continue reading
Kickstarter
You know that great idea that’s burning a hole in your brain but then keeps slipping out through the hole in your pocket? Kickstarter can patch up that hole in your pocket. While you’re checking out the site, don’t miss … Continue reading
More Notes on Venice Garden Tour
I caught up with MB Maher’s photo account of the Venice Garden & Home Tour held 5/1/10, and these are his photos of Stephen Glassman’s studio. Stephen Glassman pulled apart his stone, wire and bamboo sculpture exhibited at the The … Continue reading
Notes on Venice Garden Tour 5/1/10
Venice, California, Zone 10, Sunset Zone 24. There was no zonal denial on display on this tour. (What would zonal denial in zone 10 look like? One example I can think of offhand would be massive, stately homes with endless … Continue reading
Demolition Day
Locked in mortal combat with the most intractable, fearsome enemy you’ve ever encountered (alstroemeria), who shatters into multiples of evil when you lay glove on him. Just when you’re blinded by sweat pouring off your brow, face twisted in an … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Plant Purchase
April 2010 Gardens Illustrated arrives in the mailbox. Two-page spread depicts in photographic splendor Carol Klein’s sumptuous spring-blooming choices to grow underneath Cornus controversa ‘Variegata.’ What’s this Prunella-like, spiky, dusky pink-flowered wunderkind with the lush foliage? A calamint maybe? Lamium … Continue reading
To A Good Home
The wind has battered the alstroemeria. The support I provided, a bottomless wrought iron chair, serves more as a guillotine, bending the stalks around knee level. A gigantic tomato cage, 6 feet high and as much across, might contain this … Continue reading
More GC Open Days/Pasadena
More on the Pasadena gardens on the Garden Conservancy Open Days, April 25, 2010. This was my first tour of Pasadena gardens. I knew the gardens would be large, stately, formal. What I wasn’t prepared for was their scale. The … Continue reading
The Garden Conservacy Open Days – Pasadena
A small taste of the tour held Sunday, April 25, 2010. This is from Rancho La Loma. I haven’t seen terracing like this since the Cinque Terre in Italy, the difference being the use of our “local stone,” repurposed broken … Continue reading
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At the Garden Show/Mall
The show was held in an Orange County mall, the South Coast Plaza. If retail therapy is your thing, this mall is the Dr. Freud’s couch of retail therapy. Yves St. Laurent, Tiffany’s, Dolce Gabana, etc. The garden show seemed … Continue reading