Author Archives: Denise
Bloom Day July 2016
I’m going to try a systematic approach, so bear with me. Right outside the office, the planting is getting some height from the bog sage, kangaroo paws, and Pennisetum ‘Skyrocket’ showing a few blooms way in the back. Using the … Continue reading
Posted in Bloom Day
Tagged Bocconia frutescens, Bulbine 'Athena Compact Orange', Calamagrostis brachytricha, Calamintha 'Montrose White', Chrysocephalum aplicata, Elymus 'Canyon Prince', Glaucium grandiflorum, Hazardia detonsa, Marrubium supinum, Melinus nerviglumis, Origanum 'Rosenkuppel', Pennisetum 'Fairy Tails', Penstemon 'Enor', Puya laxa, Salvia uliginosa, Sedum 'Blue Pearl', Senecio medley-woodii, Verbena bonariensis
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more shelves
I don’t have any travel plans this summer, so July’s rhythm has been work, work, work, decompress in garden, shower, repeat. And I don’t really mind because the garden is so absorbing this time of year. At least once a … Continue reading
holiday hangups (happy 4th of July)
I’ve been pushing for the long weekend so hard, I was convinced most of yesterday that it was Friday and kept wishing everyone a happy holiday. Not quite, but almost there. Today a broken camera, an overlooked deadline, and a … Continue reading
Posted in pots and containers, succulents
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51st Annual CSSA Show & Sale at the Huntington July 1-3, 2016
It’s that time again. The Cactus and Succulent Society of America is holding their 51st Annual Show & Sale at the Huntington July 1st through 3rd, 2016. It’s going to be a long week until Friday. Hope to see you … Continue reading
friday clippings 6/24/16
Little Diego next-door has taken upon himself the challenge of learning drumming. In the last couple months, he’s been practicing on whatever is handy, whether it be pots, pans, buckets, gates. It was hard to tell at first how invested … Continue reading
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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Occasional Daily Weather Report 6/20/16
We thought we’d have the whole house fan installed before the long, hot days of summer, but there’s been a few hiccups. When it finally arrived for pickup at a local big box store, it was shipped without instructions or … Continue reading
Gladiolus papilio ‘Ruby’
I’ll tell you the same story I told Marty before work this morning, when he caught me around sunrise, barefoot and still in pajamas, crouching in the garden, snapping away with the camera. Back in March of 2014, I sent … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs
Tagged Gladiolus 'Ruby', Gladiolus papilio, Priory Plants, species gladiolus, Sue Mann
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revisiting a local succulent garden
I haven’t revisited the garden I posted about here in person, though I’d love to. But I did find outtakes, photos that, for whatever reason, I didn’t include with the original post, mostly detailed closeups that were repetitive. Some people … Continue reading
Bloom Day June 2016
In June, it seems like everywhere you point the camera, something is in bloom. Glaucium grandiflorum wants the entire garden for itself, so there’s been lots of ongoing, strategic pruning. The blooms of Eryngium planum eventually slide from silvery-green into … Continue reading