Category Archives: pots and containers
consider the leaves
We have Pam at Digging to thank for hosting this monthly celebration of foliage. This month I’m focusing on some of the leaves that impressed me during recent garden travels as well as examples from the back pages of AGO. … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, artists, design, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Acacia pendula, Aloe striatula, Bernard Trainor, bromeliads, CA, conservatories, Garden Bloggers Fling 2013, garden designer Dustin Gimbel, garden designer Rebecca Sweet, Golden Gate Park Conservatory of Flowers, Hakonechloa macra, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Landcraft Environments, landscape architect Jarrod Baumann, Long Island, Longhouse Reserve, Lysimachia nummularia, Muehlenbeckia axillaris, New York, Planting Fields Arboretum, San Francisco, Zingiber malaysianum
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Bloom Day July 2013
An extravagant display of blooms isn’t the overwhelming impression the garden is making this July, which is pretty typical. Though the Pennisetum ‘Skyrocket’ grasses are technically blooming. In the dimming twilight, the ferny leaves of Selinum wallichianum can just be … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Bloom Day, pots and containers
Tagged Achillea 'Terracotta', Agave celsii var. albicans 'UCB', Anigozanthos 'Yellow Gem', Aristolochia fimbriata, Aster x frikartii 'Monch', Chloris virgata, Crithmum maritimum, Cuphea viscosissima, Eryngium pandanifolium, Eryngium planum, Furcraea foetida 'Mediopicta', Gaillardia 'Oranges & Lemons', Gomphrena 'Strawberry Fields', Nepeta 'Walker's Low', Pennisetum 'Jade Princess', Pennisetum 'Skyrocket', Penstemon 'Hidalgo', Persicaria amplexicaulis, Phylica pubescens, Plectranthus neochilus, Russelia, Russelia equisetiformis, Salvia chiapensis, Salvia greggii 'Salmon Dance', Selinum wallichianum, Senecio viravira, sideritis, Solanum marginatum, Verbena bonariensis
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suitcase plants
Any plant is potentially a suitcase plant as far as I’m concerned, but these agaves and the Euphorbia ammak would present especially prickly challenges. Though I suppose, like anything, where there’s a will, there’s a way. But TSA might be … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged "Can You Take Plants on an Airplane?", Agastache 'Summer Glow', begonias, Dan Heims, Euphorbia ammak, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, LAX Encounter, Long Island, New York, Pennisetum 'Jade Princess', Planting Fields Arboretum, Plectranthus 'Emerald Lace', Terra Nova Nurseries
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a much anticipated visit to the garden of Shirley Watts
I’ve been home for over a week, but I left my heart in….okay, not my heart, because that’s solidly esconced here at home in the LBC, but I think I may have left my sensorium in San Francisco. On the … Continue reading
Posted in artists, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged "Natural Discourse", Bay Area gardens, Begonia grandis, Echeveria nodulosa, Leslie Bennett of Star Apple Edible Gardens, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mathiasella bupleuroides, Mimulus naiandinus 'Mega', Nicotiana sylvestris, The Rose Grocery garden, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, verbascums
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Garden Bloggers Fling 2013; Matt Gil Sculpture Garden
Second garden on Friday, designed for a work/live fabrication studio and sculpture display space in a light industrial neighborhood of San Francisco. We are an avid bunch, craning necks, snapping cameras, firing off questions (my bad habit). I have to … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Agave 'Blue Glow', Agave americana var. medio-picta 'Alba', Agave parryi var. truncata, Aloe plicatilis, anigozanthos/kangaroo paws, Annie's Annuals & Perennials, California poppy, cussonia, Dan Carlson of Wigglestem Gardens, Dramm garden supplies, Eschscholtzia californica, Garden Bloggers Fling 2013 San Francisco, Geranium incanum, hillside garden, Matt Gil Sculpture Garden, protea
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gardens hate traveling
I love to travel, but my garden hates it. But, theoretically, it really shouldn’t be that difficult, leaving the garden for a few days in late June. Most of the pots are filled with succulents this summer. Nothing too tricky. … Continue reading
Upcoming CSSA show at the Huntington
I won’t be able to attend the Cactus and Succulent Society of America show to be held at the Huntington Botanical Gardens June 28-30, 2013. But you should definitely go, for reasons photographed below. You will very likely find many … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Agave 'Snow Glow', Agave 'Streaker', Agave xylonacantha 'Frost Bite', bromeliads, CSSA Annual Show & Sale, CSSA InterCity show, dyckias, Hechtia glomerata, Huntington Botanical Gardens, Kelly Griffin, terrestrial bromeliads
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scenes from the garden 6/3/13
Some of the cast of characters this summer. First spikes of Teucrium hircanicum. Shaggy grass is newly identified Chloris virgata (thank you, Maggie!) The peachy ‘Terracotta’ yarrow lining the path are beginning bloom too. The white umbels belong to Cenolophium … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, creatures, Plant Portraits, pots and containers
Tagged Achillea 'Terracotta', Anthemis 'Susanna Mitchell', Aster 'Monch', Bacillus thuringiensis, Baltic parsley Cenolophium denudatum, budworms, Chloris virgata, Coreopsis tinctoria 'Mahogany', Cussonia gamtoosensis, Derry Watkins Special Plants, Kalanchoe luciae 'Fantastic', lilies, lilium, Teucrium hircanicum, Verbena bonariensis
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the disappearance of summer lawns
Lawns are vanishing all over town. The chief ringleader and instigator is the Long Beach Water Department, with their irresistible Lawn-to-Garden Turf Replacement Program. Quite a few of my neighbors have already taken advantage of this program the past couple … Continue reading
Posted in climate, design, driveby gardens, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Achillea "Moonshine', Anigozanthos, architects Abramsom Teiger, Baja spurge, Calandrinia spectabilis, California, Euphorbia xanti, Gomphrena decumbens, Joni Mitchell's Hissing of Summer Lawns, Lawn-to-Garden garden tour 2013, Lawn-to-Garden Turf Replacement Program, Long Beach, Long Beach Water Department, mediterranean climate, nepeta, Pittosporum tenuifolium, Russelia equisetiformis, Salvia chamaedryoides, Senecio mandraliscae, Senecio vitalis, Stipa tenuissima, Teucrium azureum, Verbena 'Homestead Purple', Verbena lilacina
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cleaning day
Any garden/home tour that incites me to clean out the office is money well spent. Cleaning for me has never been a daily spritz here, a light bit of dusting there, but a long-delayed, ferocious, all-out assault when conditions become … Continue reading