Posts Tagged as ‘garden inspiration’

July 2, 2009

the weekly stem

my lovely client, LK, loves to draw, and once a week i drop off a single stem for her…well, most times it’s two or three due to my chronic indecision. this week’s delivery: a radish i grew!

she wasn’t home when i left it wrapped in korean newsprint, but it wasn’t long until i got an [...]

June 12, 2009

p&b in nyc

a month ago, i got an email from a client asking if i knew anyone in new york who does what i do, to do up her daughter’s balcony garden in brooklyn. and i in fact do–dig in park slope–but said clients daughter was interested in finding out if yours truly would be interested in [...]

March 27, 2009

chicago garden show wrap-up

apologies for the delay in my reporting
on my visit to the chicago flower & garden show
(nearly two weeks ago!)
picture this: sunday, march fifteenth,
i wake up only to realize it’s my birthday,
and more importantly, i’m going to the garden show.
jubilation ensues.

August 25, 2008

field trip

the first week of august, i ventured to cleveland to see radiohead.
which was amazing.
and only slightly overshadowed by my visit to the cleveland botanical gardens.

the second i walked into the tropical house, i thought i had flown back to maui in the blink of a butterfly. and, with my mild obsession with structure, especially that [...]

July 17, 2008

i heart abbott’s

one of my favorite nurseries in the ann arbor area is abbott’s over on scio church road. it’s an old farm and the setting is lovely. they carry all the standard stuff–deciduous and evergreen trees including beautiful japanese maples and interesting varieties of everything else, an alphabet of perennials, and cheery annuals that greet you [...]