Category Archives: pots and containers

Bloom Day November 2013

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Denise

By November my garden has turned into a curiosity shop of oddities and seedpods. Like the racks of antler-like blooms on tetrapanax, seemingly more blooms than leaves this years after I clipped away some of the sunburnt foliage. Limbing it … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bloom Day, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged dyckias, mangaves, Nicotiana 'Ondra's Brown Mix', Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket', Russelia equisetiformis, Salvia curviflora, Tetrapanax papyrifer | 14 Comments

November garden dispatches

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Denise

We all have our favorite months in the garden. Our sentiments aside, the November garden continues sending out dispatches, oblivious to any seasonal bias. dispatches from plectranthus tillandsias and cryptbergias urgent communications from Echeveria gigantea Candy-corn-colored Morse code from Mina … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged aeoniums, Agave 'Blue Flame', Agave 'Mr. Ripple', Agave desmettiana 'Joe Hoak', Agave geminiflora, Agave lophantha 'Quadricolor', Corokia virgata 'Sunsplash', Echeveria gigantea, Mina lobata | 7 Comments

AGO/non-secateur flea market pop-up shop 12/15/13

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Denise

I’ve been checking out local flea markets to get a sense of how this whole thing works from a seller’s perspective, which is totally foreign to me. I still have stuff from flea markets I bought when I was in … Continue reading →

Posted in garden ornament, pots and containers | Tagged Downtown Flea, flea markets, Los Angeles, pop-up shop 12/15/13 Long Beach Antique Market, Rose Bowl Flea Market | 6 Comments

clippings 9/30/13

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Denise

While on the subject of concrete, precast manhole covers, stacked. I prefer to have a day’s worth of concrete projects if I’m going to drag all that mess out. Found at BHG here, but the link loads slow. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Bulbs, clippings, pots and containers | Tagged concrete, fall-blooming bulbs, Fiona Apple, knotwork, Nerine sarniensis, nerines, Orange County's The Lab, sailor's doorstops, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Scarecrow | 5 Comments

Cevan Forristt

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Denise

My timid approach to incorporating a bit of the exotic in the garden got me thinking about gardens that boldly embrace the exotic, gardens that become a country wholly unlike the one in which they nominally reside. There’s always a … Continue reading →

Posted in artists, design, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers | Tagged Bay Area gardens, Cevan Forristt, Hortisexuals, ornament, stone, The Christian Science Monitor | 13 Comments

elephant season

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Denise

A few tropicals in pots can be a fine sendoff to summer. Here about a mile from the ocean, the big-leaved tropicals like colocasia, the “elephant ears,” bide their time until the temperatures start to really feel uncomfortable. By the … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, journal, pots and containers, shop talk, succulents | Tagged Agave celsii var. albicans 'UCB', Colocasia 'Blue Hawaii', Colocasia 'Diamond Head', Colocasia 'Mojito', Cussonia gamtoosensis, elephant ears, garden plans, Kalanchoe beharensis, Nepeta 'Walker's Low', Pseuderanthemum carruthersii var. atropurpureum 'Rubrum', tropical plants | 6 Comments

evie and the agaves

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Denise

I potted up some offsets from Agave desmettiana ‘Joe Hoak’ yesterday, and Pam’s focus on leaves the 16th of every month was all the occasion I needed to show off the proud agave mama and her pups. That Vanna White … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, pots and containers | Tagged Agave desmettiana 'Joe Hoak', Evie | 10 Comments

hillside with Schwentker Watts Design

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Denise

I was in a wonderful garden the other night, but was caught flat-footed as far as having any photos to show for it. Although only 7:30ish, twilight doesn’t last long in this Los Angeles neighborhood but is quickly swallowed up … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, climate, design, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Bocconia arborea, Cupressus macrocarpa 'Citriodora', Franco-Giacomo Carbone, Harvey Watts, James Schwentker, landscape architecture, Los Angeles, MB Maher, mediterranean climate, Schwentker Watts Design, Silverlake, The Los Angeles Times | 5 Comments

counting on agaves

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Denise

No, I haven’t done a recent tally. But, boy, do they ever count when the days heat up and stay hot. Nothing looks as composed under the sun as an agave. Hard to say if their numbers are increasing, since … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, pots and containers | Tagged Acacia podalyriifolia, Agave 'Snow Glow', Agave desmettiana 'Variegata', Agave parryi 'Cream Spike', Agave potatorum 'Kissho Kan', Kelly Griffin | 7 Comments

scenes from Long Island

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Denise

It looks like the heat is fairly evenly distributed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend. In between dipping into a steaming hot garden to cut back agastache, anthemis and senecio, I’m catching up on work and going through summer … Continue reading →

Posted in garden ornament, garden travel, garden visit, pots and containers | Tagged Aruncus aethusifolius, begonias, greenhouses, Knautia macedonia, Landcraft Environments, Long Island, Longhouse Reserve, Ltd., Lysimachia punctata, Madoo Conservancy, New York, Old Westbury Gardens, Solandra maxima, Vireya rhododendrons | 6 Comments