by eyesore | Aug 20, 2015 | Landscape Styles
The days are quickly becoming shorter and nights are slowly becoming cooler. The chickweed, Stellaria media, will soon be sprouting in any moist and fertile soil. These are the signals to begin planting the fall through winter growing vegetables. Now is the time to...
by eyesore | Jul 21, 2015 | Landscape Styles
Is a 95, 96 or 98 degree day too hot for you? Cool off in the shade of a crepe myrtle. Crepe myrtles love the heat and humidity and they offer an added bonus of the scent of high summer. It is a scent that is hard to describe and hard to...
by eyesore | Jun 19, 2015 | Gardens, Landscape Styles
He enjoys being referred to as the Howard Finster of Mexico. If so, he is the irreverent Finster and certainly not a Reverend. Anado , is an artist whose his home and garden is his pallet. Anado was grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and studied...
by eyesore | May 1, 2015 | Landscape Styles
In April I had the pleasure of opening my Park Lane garden to several groups of avid gardeners, photographers, art, nature, and travel lovers. (Often this is the same person in one.) Last Thursday, The Garden Conservancy Society of Fellows swooped in with two busloads...
by eyesore | Mar 31, 2015 | Container Plantings, Courtyard Gardens, Gardens, Hardscapes, Landscape Design, Landscape Styles, Small Spaces
The smaller the space the more important each element becomes. This is true withboth interior and exterior spaces, with the difference in the outside being the ceiling height; i.e, the sky that is gloriously endless. At Gardens to...
by MarciaWeber | Sep 29, 2014 | Landscape Styles
It is Fashion Week in New York City, Paris and Milan. The newspapers and magazines are full of photos and editorials about the new looks, colors and materials. Even I, a person who has dressed in a company uniform 5 days a week for 36 years,...