Category Archives: design

small space big style: Potted shows how it’s done

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Denise

You’ve gotta get over to Potted’s blog to see their before-and-after photos documenting Potted’s contribution to the California Home+Design showhouse at The Hollywood Lofts. Follow Potted’s step-by-step photos to find how they arrived at this: And this: (Note the debut … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, pots and containers | Tagged Annette Goliti Gutierrez, Atwater Village, Bend Seating, California Home+Design, City Planter, Mary Gray, Potted For Outdoor Living, Small Space Big Style Showhouse | 4 Comments

succulent container with ocotillo

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Denise

Running errands in Orange County yesterday, I popped into the new Rolling Greens again to see if their selection of outdoor plants had arrived. Yes, a good range of succulents was in, including this fabulous variegated beaucarnia or Pony Tail … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged aeoniums, Alluaudia procera, beaucarnia, echeverias, Fouquieria, Ocotillo, Pony Tail Palm, Rolling Greens Costa Mesa | 8 Comments

Rolling Greens opens in Orange County

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Denise

I’m so very glad that owner Greg Salmeri and creative director Angela Hicks have opened another location where they can express their unique “global nomad” outlook on indoor/outdoor rooms and gardens, bringing the total to three locations in Southern California: … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents, The Hortorialist | Tagged Angela Hicks, Bazar de lâ€™HÃ´tel de Ville, garden ornament, Garnier Thiebaut linens, greenhouse, Greg Salmeri, home furnishings, Rolling Greens Costa Mesa, Rolling Greens Nursery Culver City, Rolling Greens West Hollywood, South Coast Collection | 5 Comments

High Line jeremiad

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Denise

Some interesting Sunday reading to be found in another nuanced, contrarian view of the High Line Park in New York City. I know, not another post on the High Line! I can’t help it, I’m utterly fascinated by this subject. … Continue reading →

Posted in design, essay, garden travel, garden visit | Tagged Jeremiah Moss, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Grand Park, New York, parks, Piet Oudolf, public space, The High Line Park, Vanishing New York | 10 Comments

sit

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Denise

Dear Chair, oh, how I love thee! I scored a couple garden chairs on sale recently, which pitched my low simmer of constant chair love back into a full boil. These are mostly photos of chairs and benches previously posted … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Battery Park NYC, Bend Seating, Damian Velasquez Half13, Daniel Rhodes, Dunn Gardens, Dustin Gimbel, Dwell on Design Los Angeles 2012, Emeco Broom Chair by Philip Starck, Fermob, Katherine Spitz Associates, landscape architect Jarrod Baumann, Loll Designs, Long Beach Antique Market, Maarten Baas chair, Rancho Los Alamitos, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show 2012, South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show, Sue Dadd & James Griffth's Folly Bowl, The High Line Park, Venice Home and Garden Tour 2012, Villa Mundo Nuevo | 4 Comments

melianthus at the getty and other controversies

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Denise

The incomparable Herb Ritts and Titian were also at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and some of Marie Antoinette’s hand-me-down furniture too. I think it can be safely said that gardeners are connoisseurs of the perfect moment, and last … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit, photography, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Albert Barnes, Barnes Foundation, Black Mondo Grass, California Pepper Tree Schinus molle, Christopher Knight, crepe myrtles, dyckias, Eastern Sycamore, Echeveria setosa, Getty Center Los Angeles, Herb Ritts, Kalanchoe luciae, Lagerstroemia indica, London Plane tree, Melianthus comosus, Melianthus major, museums, ophiopogon, Pelargonium sidoides, Platinus acerifolia â€œYarwoodâ€, Richard Meier, Robert Irwin, San Marcos Growers, The Art of the Steal, tulbaghia | 7 Comments

summer 2012 road trip: Pacific Northwest

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Denise

I find vacations in the Pacific Northwest have a lot in common with Chinese food; after being home for a few days, you’re hungry for another serving of Puget Sound, please. I’m sitting at a table in my garden in … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bulbs, creatures, design, garden travel, garden visit, journal, plant crushes, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Actaea 'Black Negligee', Agastache 'Blue Boa', Agastache 'Summer Glow', Aloe striatula, Aralia cordata 'Sun King', Bupleurum falcatum, Calla 'Edge of Night', Cistus Nursery, Crocosmia 'Twilight Fairy Gold', Dan Heims, Dancing Oaks Nursery, Danger Garden, dierama, Echinacea 'Now Cheesier', Echinacea 'Pink Sapphire', Echinacea 'Secret Lust', echinacea hybrids, Eucomis 'Can-Can', Fatsia japonica 'Spider Web', Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold', Leonard Foltz, Leycesteria formosa, Loree Bohl, McMenamins Kennedy School, Oregon Garden Resort, Plant Lust, Rhus typhina, Sauvie Island, Terra Nova, Tiger Eye Sumac, Yucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies' | 16 Comments

a week in the PNW

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Denise

Day one of a week touring gardens and nurseries in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a clue to our first stop after landing in Portland, Oregon. Still stumped? More clues… Obviously, this can only be Loree’s incredible garden (the Danger Garden), … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Apartment Therapy, Danger Garden, Lila, Loree Bohl, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland | 13 Comments

The Low Line (really)

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Denise

Credit goes to New York for currently being the city with the most moxie, ingenuity, and brass-balled chutzpah in creating new public parks. (See Frank Bruni’s 7/14/12 piece in the NYT’s Sunday Review “Our Newly Lush Life.”) New York’s recent … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden travel, garden visit, science | Tagged "Our Newly Lush Life", Curbed, Dan Barasch, Delancey Street Trolley Station, Delancey Underground project, Frank Bruni, James Ramsey, Kickstarter, New York City, New York Observer, public parks, The High Line Park, The Low Line, The New York Times | 4 Comments

crocosmia

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Denise

Thin stands of crocosmia are what’s left of the formerly generous clumps of fast-thickening cultivars with names like ‘Star of the East,’ ‘Solfatarre,’ ‘George Davidson.’ They pop up now as anonymous singletons in surprising locations every year, always some shade … Continue reading →

Posted in Bulbs, design, Plant Portraits | Tagged crocosmia, Persicaria amplexicaulis | 2 Comments