On March 6th, 2011, FRUIT TREE BLOSSOMS…
…in shades from white to pink are popping and promising spring in the back garden.
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On March 3rd, 2011, MINI MOSSY ZEN ROOF GARDEN…
…is something I started messing around with a few months ago (featuring a miniature landscape of tufa rocks and scavenged blocks covered with pieces of moss varieties gathered on…
On February 23rd, 2011, THE ANNUAL PRUNING OF THE OLIVE TREES…
…took place this morning in grand style with freshly cut dusty green leaved olive branches covering much of the ground after the garden crew had come through to…
On February 14th, 2011, ROOFTOP PLANTING CRATES…
…and their happy healthy plant residents enjoying this afternoon’s sun, are visible out the window as I shuffle around in my dim influenza delerium, at least encouraged to…
On February 9th, 2011, CAVALO NERO…
…or ‘black cabbage’ (a loose-leaf Italian cabbage, or kale) has been on our plates almost every day this winter, and today will be no exception, as I harvest…
On February 2nd, 2011, THE LETTUCE REPORT…
…from the Roman rooftop garden is good – and though some are still looking small and scrappy after months in the ground, growing very slowly with the cool…
On January 26th, 2011, ORTICHE…
…or nettles, are to be found all over the streets of Rome, coming up from any unattended space between stones, they sting (a fact I am sure every…
On January 24th, 2011, WINDOW SILL MOSS GARDENS…
…were the impromptu focus of the day as I discovered the great abundance of gorgeous moss (the most exotic sort of vegetation to the eyes of an eleven…
On January 21st, 2011, THE FLOWERING FAVA BEANS…
…or Vicia faba, are keeping my rooftop garden spring-like in the middle of a Roman winter – and since I have never grown them before, it is all…
On January 5th, 2011, THE WORM REPORT…
…is good, they are devouring my kitchen scraps (about 3 pounds a week), turning it into sweet smelling fertile black-gold worm casting compost, and reproducing like crazy (lots…
On December 30th, 2010, ROOFTOP POTATO HARVEST…
…is the surprising legacy of the potato plants that were cut down by the one night of frost up on the roof last week – and as I…
On December 20th, 2010, BACK TO THE ROOFTOP…
…for the Roman Rooftop Homestead plants – returning from their warm holiday retreat in my makeshift window greenhouse – now that this city has returned to it’s Mediterranean-climate…
On December 18th, 2010, A WARM GARDEN BUBBLE…
…has been created in my East studio window this morning, providing a new winter retreat for my rooftop plant refugees as sub-freezing temperatures arrive in Rome evidenced by…
On December 8th, 2010, PLANTS GROWING ON ALL THE ROMAN ROOFTOPS…
…after six weeks of rain is worth looking up for – where you can see the story of Roman ruins begin before your very eyes, leaves falling, accumulating,…
On December 7th, 2010, PLASTIC BOTTLE SEED-STARTER COLD-HOUSE WATER-CATCHMENT…
…is a simple little system I have going on the Roman rooftop garden (also known as Edible Estate #9: Rome, Italy) which involves collecting unwanted empty containers (from…
On December 4th, 2010, THE MAYOR OF LONDON AND CAPITAL GROWTH…
…announced a winning London housing estate community garden last month for the competiton inspired by Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden #4: London, England, commissioned by Tate Modern in…
On December 2nd, 2010, VISIT TO ORTO BOTANICO DI ROMA…
…in Trastevere made me especially LA homesick when I entered their hothouse of succulents and cacti this morning. (wiki page)
On November 28th, 2010, A VISIT TO PARCO DEI MOSTRI WITH DANISH…
…friends who are fellows at the Accademia Danimarca di Roma (housed in Danish design splendor in a 1967 structure designed by Kay Fisker near Villa Borghese) made me…
On November 5th, 2010, LETTUCE IN CARTONS…
…is beginning to pop up – obviously enjoying the alternating sunny and rainy weather we have been having – and creating brilliant contrasts between the raw wood crates…
On November 4th, 2010, POTATOES GROWING IN BURLAP COFFEE BEAN BAGS IN WOOD FRUIT CRATES…
…is the cute, rustic, and homespun exception to my otherwise ‘trashy’ (in the best sense) garden of exclusively found, salvaged, and recycled goods with all of the plants…