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The people who brought us Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters have opened a nursery and garden center outside Philadelphia in Glenn Mills. I visited Terrain in April and enjoyed seeing how they merchandised a garden center…

Agave Fetish

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30 Sep 2011 — No Comments

Posted in landscape, plants, portfolio

Tagged: agave, greenwall, livingwall, Succulents, Woolly Pocket

I am totally Agave obsessed this summer. It all started when I designed a Woolly Pocket living wall that used Agaves as focal points. Planted among hanging succulents like Trailing Jade and Senecio Fishhook, the…

Plant Star: Dymondia

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30 Sep 2011 — No Comments

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Tagged: drought, dymondia, groundcover, parkway, plant

Dymondia is a great ground cover for parkways and pathways. It is super tough and can take people walking on it plus it needs very little water. You can buy…

Bocce in the Garden

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28 Sep 2011 — No Comments

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Tagged: bocce, landscape, recreation, wine

Bocce is gaining in popularity in the US and some speculate it is because we are drinking more wine. Check out this article in Fine Gardening– On A Roll . Tweet

COMPOSTING CLASS

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27 Sep 2011 — No Comments

Posted in landscape, plants

Tagged: compost, edible, gardening, Los Angeles

@ City of Los Angeles sponsored a series of FREE Composting classes—- + buy a subsidized composter for $20 + a worm bin for $5 See Bureau of Sanitation Schedule for next compost class event.…

BALLER

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27 Sep 2011 — No Comments

Posted in landscape

Tagged: irrigatiion

Baller Hardware in Silverlake has a decent supply of hard to find drip irrigation supplies– If you are going to buy online try Amazon or www.dripirrigation.com (Taken with instagram) Tweet

PRETTY PROTEA

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27 Sep 2011 — No Comments

Posted in plants

Tagged: California, garden, plant, protea

I have admired these exotic large blooming flowers ever since I moved to California 10 years ago. The avocado man at the Echo Park Farmer’s Market sells them for $1 a bloom. For a long…

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25 Sep 2011 — No Comments

Posted in landscape

Tagged: garden, quote

“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also…

Survey: 7 Favorite Fountains

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22 Apr 2010 — No Comments

Posted in water

Tagged: fountains, landscape, water

There are a few hundred famous fountains that have become part of our global pop culture. They are on the covers of travel books, in movies, people make pilgrimages to them, their symbolism is often…

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