Category Archives: garden visit

notes from the Venice Home & Garden Tour 2013

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Denise

Postcards from Venice Home & Garden Tour 2013

Posted in design, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Bowiea volubilis, Brad Miller, California, ceramics, Euphorbia ammak, HardieBacker board, Mollie Favour, Venice, Venice Home & Garden Tour 2013 | 7 Comments

monday clippings 4/29/13

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Denise

I was living large with orange marmalade on my bagel this morning, after trying it on some excellent shortbread Sunday afternoon. I first tasted then bought the marmalade from the Arlington Garden in Pasadena yesterday, where it’s made from their … Continue reading →

Posted in clippings, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Arlington Garden, bromeliads, Echeveria aff. potosina, Garden Conservancy Open Days, Haworthia cuspidata, Haworthia greenii, Huntington Botanical Garden Plant Sale, Huntington Botanical Gardens, labyrinths, Papaver rhoes, Pasadena CA | 1 Comment

Lili Singer’s Thursday Talk with Isabelle Greene

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Denise

“Sixteen years ago I was writing only prose and what I consider now traditional garden writing for magazines. And then one day I was in my office looking at a landscape architecture magazine, turned the page, and there was an … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden visit | Tagged Greene & Greene, Hazel White, Isabelle Greene, landscape architecture, Lili Singer, Longwood Gardens, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, The Gamble House, UCBG "Natural Discourse", Women in the Dirt | 2 Comments

cochineal

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Denise

“Under the seams runs the pain.” ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red I’ve been going over my notes the past couple months from Dr. Alejandro de Ávila’s remarkable lecture “Blood on a Fountain,” which he gave this past January at … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, creatures, design, garden travel, garden visit, science, succulents | Tagged Amy Stewart, cochineal, Dactylopius coccus, Dr. Alejandro de Avila, dyes, Helen Quinn, Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca, Monte Alban, Montezuma cypress, opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica, Stenocereus marginatus, Taxodium mucronatum, The Drunken Botanist, The Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca, UCBG "Natural Discourse", University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley | 6 Comments

day trip to Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Denise

It’s pushing the concept of a day trip to its limit when it takes five hours each way, there and back, but the DBG was having their spring plant sale and, dammit, I needed to go. So the math worked … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Aloe 'Blue Elf', Aloe hereroensis, Arizona, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix | 11 Comments

Jardin Majorelle, Morocco

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Denise

What I know about Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion designer, as opposed to his enormous, well-known cultural celebrity, is limited to sewing up some of his “rich peasant” and stunning Russian collection designs off of Vogue patterns in high school. … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, Plant Portraits, succulents | Tagged bleu Majorelle, Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, general director Jardin Majorelle, Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's The Principles of Gardening, Jacques Majorelle, Jardin Majorelle, Madison Cox, Marrakesh, Morocco, Robert Pogue Harrison, Suzy Menkes, The Principles of Gardening | 7 Comments

hidden mesoamerican palaces

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Denise

not in Central America but here, in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, of textile-block construction, built for friend and photographer John Sowden in 1926. Renovations by a new owner in 2001 included restoring the stonework and the addition … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden travel, garden visit | Tagged California, Frank Llloyd Wright, Hollywood, John Sowden House, National Register of Historic Places. | 5 Comments

exploring a coastal garden with Lili Singer

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Denise

This Pacific Palisades garden was the final garden we visited 1/24/13 with Lili Singer via the LA County Arboretum Thursday Garden Talk series. Despite being firmly in the grasp of winter this January morning, or as firm a grasp on … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, driveby gardens, garden ornament, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Big Daddy's Antiques, Daniel Hinkley, Fleur Nooyen and Associates, formal gardens, garden designer Fleur Nooyen, garden designer Joel Lichtenwalter, garden designer Richard Hayden, garden designer Ryan Gates, Graptopetalum paraguayense, Grow Outdoor Design, Hayden Landscape Design, Irving Gill, Leucadendron ‘Wilson’s Wonder’, Lili Singer, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Mediterranean gardens, Solandra maxima | 3 Comments

Aloes in Southern California

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Denise

It’s that time of year again to catch the displays of these spectacular South African succulents in bloom around town. These photos were taken mid-day at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden 2/7/13. Aloe vryheidensis. Many were of … Continue reading →

Posted in garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged aloes Southern California, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden | 5 Comments

Dear Delphine

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Denise

Dear Delphine, Like the movie Being John Malkovich, the doorway to your fertile imagination is waiting for me whenever I need an infusion of inspiration, and you never disappoint. I still find it astonishing that I can see the world … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Paradis Express | 7 Comments