More exuberance at the Sparler-Schouten Garden, part 2
More garden goodness — plants and playful garden art — in Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten’s Garden of Exuberant Refuge. Here’s Part 2.… Read More
Exploring the Garden of Exuberant Refuge, part 1
The Garden of Exuberant Refuge is the happy creation of Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten in Seattle, colorful, quirky, irreverent, and playful.… Read More
Making the scene at Create A Scene garden
In their garden Create A Scene, designer Michael Bowell and artist Simple express their humor and place-making through plants and garden art. … Read More
Cynthia Deegan’s free-spirited, collected home and garden
The mossy green doors of Cynthia’s milagro-spangled gate open to reveal a soulful garden of artistic vignettes created from thrifted treasures.… Read More
Totemic sculpture by Dustin Gimbel evokes desert flora
The next best thing to a cool sculptural plant is a cool sculpture that looks like a plant — like Dustin Gimbel’s ceramic sculptures.… Read More
At Bedrock Gardens, the land is an artist’s canvas, part 2
The creators of Bedrock Gardens are artists with plants and found objects they’ve turned into unique sculpture. Here’s part 2 of my tour.… Read More
At Bedrock Gardens art leads you on a journey
Bedrock Gardens is a journey garden that evokes humor and magic thanks to found-object art among creative plantings.… Read More
Plant This for purple power: Spiderwort
Every year native spiderwort seeds itself into rocky nooks and crannies and pops up in new places in the garden. We’re both happy about it.… Read More
Oxblood lilies cavort with agaves in Tom Ellison’s garden
In Tom Ellison’s garden swaths of oxblood lilies blaze with diminutive red flags after the first good rain of late summer.… Read More
What makes garden art effective?
If you like garden art but aren’t sure how to use it to greatest effect, you’ll want to attend my next Garden Spark talk. On Thursday, April 9th, Pat Webster, an artist and garden writer at Site & Insight, will present “Art in the Garden: What, Where, Why.” … Read More
A peaceful morning in Cat’s garden
A week ago in my friend Cat Jones’s garden, I found my attention divided between her new canyon-side stock-tank pond topped with a glorious flowering crinum and the rolling, green canyon vista itself.… Read More
Skullduggery among the agaves
Amused by skull-tipped agaves in Dan Johnson’s Denver garden, I’ve given a few of my own agaves the Yorick treatment. Turns out, all sorts of skull beads can be found online. Who knew!? I ordered strings of yellow, orange, and white.… Read More
An exuberant, upcycled, scrap-art garden: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling
July 21, 2019Colorful stucco walls! Upcycled metal garden art! Octopus planters! Agaves (atop caged columns) and alliums and poppies! Amusing vignettes! As soon as we stepped off the bus at Denver Garden Bloggers Fling (June 2019), I knew this garden … Read More
Woodland tapestry: Jay Sifford’s garden of foliage, art, and light
In Charlotte, NC, last weekend, I visited the garden of designer Jay Sifford. I arrived under leaden skies and drizzly rain, but the garden sparkled with raindrops, its tapestry of colorful foliage glowing in the dim light. I knew immediately I was in for a treat.… Read More