Tag Archives: Dustin Gimbel

friday’s clippings 4/20/12

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Denise

Friday’s Clippings is a handy blog closet into which accumulated stuff can be shoved at the end of the week, things I want to refer to again that might be of wider interest. And speaking of odds and ends shoved … Continue reading →

Posted in clippings, creatures, design, garden travel, garden visit, journal, science | Tagged Colony Collapse Disorder, Dustin Gimbel, Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase, neonicotinoid insecticides, South Coast Plaza, Southern California Spring Garden Show 2012, Why Trees Matter by Jim Robbins | 2 Comments

when the world gets too koyaanisqatsi

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Denise

I heard this phrase a couple weeks back and thought it an instant classic, the perfect shorthand for those moments when life gets a little too fractured, too fragmented, too…out of balance or koyaanisqatsi, referring to that 1983 art house … Continue reading →

Posted in garden visit, Plant Portraits | Tagged Centaurea clementei, Dustin Gimbel, Godfrey Reggio, koyaanisqatsi, sonchus species | 4 Comments

Plug & Play

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Denise

I briefly escaped the desk yesterday and checked out a couple local nurseries. Fall is when some interesting plants start to appear again in Southern California nurseries, for planting in the cooler temps, to be settled in by winter rains. … Continue reading →

Posted in Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Digging Dog Nursery, Dustin Gimbel, Echeveria elegans, Echeveria pulidonis, Libertia peregrinans, Patersonia drummondii, Sedum nussbaumerianum, Senecio anteuphorbium, Teucrium hyrcanicum 'Purple Tails' | 3 Comments

Dinner at Dustin’s

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Denise

A word of advice. An invitation to dinner at Dustin’s should never be passed up. Yes, he is a wonderful cook (Salade Nicoise with salmon, chocolate ganache torte). But prowling around his garden to see what he’s been up to … Continue reading →

Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher | Tagged Annette Goliti Gutierrez, Dustin Gimbel, MB Maher, Potted, Reuben Munoz | 5 Comments

Solanum marginatum

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Denise

Cable TV was turned back on in our house after an absence of about a year of no TV other than Netflix. Fiberoptic cable was laid on our street, so a package deal with faster internet, cable TV, and phone … Continue reading →

Posted in garden visit, Plant Portraits | Tagged Alcatraz Island, California's Gold, Dustin Gimbel, Garden Conservancy, Gardens of Alcatraz, horsenettle, Huell Howser, Solanum marginatum, White-Margined Nightshade | 12 Comments

Agave franzosinii

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Denise

This photo was taken by MB Maher during a visit he made to artists Sue Dadd and James Griffith’s amazing Folly Bowl last summer. Some agave, huh? I’m now fairly sure that this uber-undulating creature is Agave franzosinii, which develops … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, MB Maher, Plant Portraits | Tagged Agave franzosinii, Agaves Yuccas & Related Plants; A Gardener's Guide, agaves, woody lilies, Dustin Gimbel, Folly Bowl, James Griffith, Lotusland, San Marcos Growers, Sue Dadd, The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Trio Nursery, woody lilies | 5 Comments

Venice Garden & Home Tour 2011

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Denise

Buy tickets and a map at the Las Doradas Children’s Center, apply the lime-green wrist band, and we’re off on the VGHT 2011 (Last year’s post here.) Under overcast skies, thirty houses, covering several miles. Bikes would be the preferred … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, MB Maher, succulents | Tagged California, Dustin Gimbel, Jay Griffith, Los Doradas Children's Center, MB Maher, Naomi Saunders, succulents, Venice, Venice Garden & Home Tour 2011 | 12 Comments

The Kashmir Cypress

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Denise

A pre-dinner garden tour at Dustin’s. “What is it?” I asked. “You asked me that last time,” he answered patiently. “It’s psoralea.” “Oh, the Kool-Aid something or other?” (Strange, how memory works.) “Right,” he explained, “from Annie’s.” His psoralea is … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, Plant Portraits, succulents | Tagged Annies Annuals, bocconia, Cedrus deodara 'Feelin' Blue', Cupressus cashmeriana, Dustin Gimbel, Echeveria agavoides, Huntington Botanical Garden, Kashmir cypress, Nancy Goslee Power, Orostachys iwarenge, Power of Gardens, Psoralea pinnata, San Marcos Growers | 7 Comments

Riches of Rancho Reubidoux

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Denise

Faithful readers of Reuben Munoz’s blog, Rancho Reubidoux, will have followed Reuben’s decision to join the Riverside Flower Show and Garden Tour, cheering him on as he underwent the harrowing process of qualifying to be on the tour and then … Continue reading →

Posted in garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged Craigslist, drought-tolerant gardens, Dustin Gimbel, Euphorbia mauritanica, flea markets, garden tour, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz, Riverside Flower Show & Garden Tours, salvage | 9 Comments

Winter Whites

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Denise

The gift of Solanum marginatum from Dustin opened a chilly-looking bloom yesterday. For a solanum from Abyssinia, the White-Edged Nightshade really knows how to dress for winter. (Labeled from the grower as S. marginata, but my trusty Hortus Third says … Continue reading →

Posted in Plant Portraits | Tagged Dustin Gimbel, nightshade, noxious weed, Second Nature Garden Design, Solanum marginatum | 3 Comments