by eyesore | Oct 22, 2015 | Landscape Styles
Rome, Italy is known as the eternal city. I learned that first hand during my October trip with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. The trip was coordinated by the indomitable Pamela Huntington Darling, aka Pamela, darling. She likes to make...
by eyesore | Sep 17, 2015 | Gardens, Landscape Design, Landscape Styles
Summer is fading, yet there are flowers and plants that get brighter this time of year. Dragon Wing Begonias and Kong Coleus are at their best as real traffic stoppers, whether at the front door or in a municipal planting. For something more toned down,...
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...
