Category Archives: artists
a Hollywood Hills garden in three acts
(This Sunday, May 7th, you have another opportunity to visit this extraordinary garden. Details here.) The recent APLD watershed garden tour was exemplary in every way that such tours should be; lots of interesting and pertinent design solutions for SoCal … Continue reading
APLD steps up
The Association of Professional Landscape Designers 2nd Annual Watershed Approach Garden Tour this past April 9th was a solid, smoothly run success and a great addition to Los Angeles garden culture. I hope they do it again next year. Most … Continue reading
catching up with Dustin Gimbel
This has really been Dustin’s year, and I think a recap is in order. Dustin Gimbel, Second Nature Garden Design In early 2017 Dustin and Potted launched his Point Pot. Long Beach’s own “communal dining space,” Steelcraft, let us play … Continue reading
The Point Pot
If you’re an Instagram fan of garden designer/ceramicist Dustin Gimbel and/or Potted, LA’s premiere source for stylish plant containers and garden furniture, you’ll know that they’ve been collaborating for some time on the first mass-produced offering of one of Dustin’s … Continue reading
a holiday visit with Dustin Gimbel
Now that garden designer Dustin Gimbel has branched off into ceramics, I can buy a few holiday presents and visit his incredibly inspiring garden. Coming in the little side gate, there’s this silvery vision of Acacia pendula, faced down by … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, design, garden visit, pots and containers
Tagged ceramics, Dustin Gimbel, Frankenia thymifolia
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Digital Nature at the Los Angeles County Arboretum 10/21 & 10/22/16
When: 6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2016 Where: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Tickets: $16 adults and $14 children 5-12. Information: 626-821-4623, www.arboretum.org. Read more here. Digital Nature opened … Continue reading
Natural Discourse: Fire! 9/30 & 10/1/16
I’ve lived long enough to have experienced the dispersal of information about plants move from paper to the computer screen, and it seems I rarely have the sense anymore that I’m cut off from an essential stream of information on … Continue reading
Muradian pot needs a good home
I’ve never planted this pot made by Fresno-based potter Mark Muradian, whose pots are at all the succulent and cactus shows in California. It’s just too precious for the way I shuffle things around constantly. 5 and a half inches … 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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