Category Archives: pots and containers

when agaves become homebodies

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Denise

I’m sure these images have been kicking around design blogs for some time, but if they have I’ve missed them. (Found here at Miluccia, via the magazine Ideat.) It’s easy to become numbed by the tsunami of photos of interiors … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, pots and containers | Tagged Ideat | 3 Comments

Bloom Day February 2013

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Denise

I admit I’m a vulgarian, if there was any doubt left. By February I’m starved for brash and garish, even though it violates the subtle order of nature that has spring unfolding with a delicacy that builds by degrees to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloom Day, Bulbs, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Coronilla valentina subsp. glauca, Crassula multicava, Helleborus argutifolius, Linaria reticulata 'Flamenco', Lotus jacobaeus, Prostranthera ovalifolia 'Variegata, Tulip 'Boston', tulips | 7 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

Occasional Daily Photo 2/12/13

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Denise

I just potted the Pelargonium echinatum into this chipped Bauer pot inherited from my grandmother. A chipped Bauer pot ceases to be a sacred cow and can definitely mix it up with the other garden pots. Just took me a … Continue reading →

Posted in Occasional Daily Photo, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Bauer pottery, Lepismium cruciforme, Pelargonium echinatum | 5 Comments

1/24/13 Thursday Garden Talk with Lili Singer

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Denise

I had the belated, long-postponed, very intense pleasure of attending one of Lili Singer’s Thursday Garden Talks held by the Los Angeles County Arboretum, a tradition going back ten years. Lili Singer has long been so embedded and enmeshed in … Continue reading →

Posted in design, driveby gardens, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers | Tagged Acacia iteaphylla, Arum italicum 'Picturm', Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy', Circle Pot, Grow Outdoor Design, Joel Lichtenwalter, Lili Singer, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, mid century modern, Potted gifts for the garden, Ryan Gates, Stan Bitters | 9 Comments

Occasional Daily Weather Report 1/6/13

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Denise

Nighttime temps haven’t dipped into the 30s yet, still the calamintha was somehow dusted with ice crystals yesterday morning Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) always looks chilly The daytime temps, anyway, make for perfect biking weather. My Christmas present to Marty … Continue reading →

Posted in Occasional Daily Photo, Occasional Daily Weather Report, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Acacia pravissima, Calamintha nepeta, Echeveria 'Opal Moon', Ein, Papaver commutatum, Pelargonium 'Crocodile', Saxifraga stolonifera 'Maroon Beauty', Tillandsia usneoides, vintage bicycles | 3 Comments

2012’s end

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Denise

What a beautiful, tragic, maddening, saddening, intoxicating, infuriating, sublime and silly year 2012 was. While I indulge a bittersweet mood with Picasa’s collage editor, I’m wishing you the very, very best for 2013 — heavy on the sublime, light on … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Huntington Botanical Gardens, Huntington Desert Garden Conservatory | 5 Comments

Amsterdam houseboat gardens

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Denise

Can you string together three other words that conjure as much bliss as those? Perhaps you can. But having been obsessed with some garden or other most of my life, and having lived with a boat captain most of my … Continue reading →

Posted in driveby gardens, garden travel, MB Maher, photography, pots and containers | Tagged Amsterdam houseboats, Piet Oudolf | 6 Comments

OC Mart Mix needs to host a garden show

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Denise

Another weekend misspent ostensibly holiday shopping (why pretend?), but in actuality just enjoying plants and landscapes, these courtesy of The OC Mart Mix. Although The OC Mart Mix was patterned after the Ferry Building gourmet marketplace in San Francisco, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Agave vilmoriniana, Cornerstone Sonoma, Ferry Building Marketplace San Francisco, Inside Out 365, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, OC Mart Mix, Rolling Greens Costa Mesa, Senecio mandraliscae, The Late Show, The Late Show Gardens | 7 Comments

plant this book

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Denise

With apologies to Abbie Hoffman (’60s radical and author of counterculture best-seller Steal this Book) Via Desire to Inspire Literally, sheet mulching for the bookish set. Scanning my book shelves, I just can’t come up with a book to sacrifice. … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden ornament, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Desire to Inspire, sheet mulching, Steal This Book | 4 Comments