{"id":89577,"date":"2019-02-22T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=89577"},"modified":"2019-02-22T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:15:22","slug":"scenes-from-modernism-week-garden-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=89577","title":{"rendered":"scenes from Modernism Week garden tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m going to leave you this Friday with a few images from the self-guided Modern Garden Tour put on by Modernism Week<\/a> in Palm Springs this past Wednesday. Leaving Long Beach at 7:30 a.m., I arrived just before 10 a.m. to attend landscape architect Steve Martino’s<\/a> talk, (which was excellent, providing a fascinating nuts-and-bolts deconstruction of his Barragan-influenced “I like walls” design aesthetic and how he gets around fence height restrictions\/building codes by calling the privacy barriers “sheds,” which can legally be taller than fences. Privacy is paramount.) After the talk I grabbed a quick coffee and ham croissant before walking up and down Palm Canyon Drive to take in the sights on this chilly-ish day (high 50s), returning to the MW headquarters, the Camp, for tickets a half hour before the tour. (Somewhat confusingly, the tour had been listed as sold out, and I had expected to just attend Mr. Martino’s talk and check out some other sights, but tickets were still available on Wednesday — don’t ask me why. Next time I’ll be sure to book weeks in advance.) The tour started at 1 p.m., covered eight gardens, and by the time all my gawking and looky-looing of stunning houses not<\/em> on the tour was factored in, I didn’t start the two-hour drive home until 4:30. No time to visit Sunnylands or the Moorten Botanical Garden<\/a> on this trip. The necklace of mountains encircling the town sparkled with lightly dusted snow and atmospheric swirls of mist along their peaks, with rich browns and velvet greens outlining their corrugated spines. A majestic backdrop for the tour. I don’t get Palms Springs in high summer but I do emphatically understand its appeal in winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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many of the gardens felt like private resorts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the Little Tuscany neighborhood, home of landscape designer Bret Baughman and his husband, painter and sculptor Brian Hagiwara. Landscape design by Bret Baughman and Erik Munoz\/EJM Landscapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of Euphorbia resinifera on the tour. Coleman Ganoe\/Architectural Blue designed the landscape for owners Michael Pontrelli and Dan Burger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aloidendron ‘Hercules’ made quite a few appearances on the tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strength in numbers. Multiple Aloidendron ‘Hercules’ at the home of Michael Levine and Kim Lemon, landscape design by William Kopelk\/InsideOutside, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the tour booklet: “The modern gardens of Palm Springs can be defined by a variety of components: desert elements, low water requirements, artful placement of materials in relation to the architecture and unique features used in this climate such as boulders, rock top-dressings, fire pits and pools. These gardens include excellent examples of low-water use desert plants and other materials, designed to create delightful outdoor spaces that take advantage of Palm Springs’ relationship to living both indoors and outdoors, along with its mountain vistas and jaw-dropping views<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of small, visibility-obscuring sandstorms just before entering the city established the desert’s bonafides. What an amazing place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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