On April 26th, 2012, JUPITER’S BEARD…
…or Centranthus ruber, has been creeping around the gardens here for years, looking great and flowering and continually coming back with little encouragement or even a drop of…
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On April 7th, 2012, ANOTHER ROOFTOP GARDEN REPORT…
…follows on the heels of others from Jan 16 and Mar 2, and today the reports are coming in of wildflower blooms, big fat broccoli heads, more kale…
On April 5th, 2012, LUNCH STRAIGHT FROM THE GARDEN…
…is the pleasure of late winter L.A., enjoyed as four guests are coming over for a midday meal, so today it will be everything veg for a big…
On March 20th, 2012, DECOMPOSED GRANITE…
…is the beautifully warm-colored soft-textured stone that comes up with almost every shovel and trowel on my hill, which I covered my roof with as it was coming…
On March 16th, BACKYARD ARCHEOLOGY…
…replaced gardening this morning as I was reconfiguring the back corner of the garden, moving dirt around, re-grading, making a new terraced area on the site of what…
On March 15th, 2012, GARDEN RUBBLE SCULPTURE…
…from London via Human Resources (where the rest of the pieces were ceremoniously trashed and trampled) were placed in their new home today (the long abandoned, recently refurbished…
On March 14th, 2012, COLLARDS…
…in a messy row between the broccoli and the kale are up and ready to eat on the rooftop garden ya’ll.
On March 12th, 2012, SUNDOWN BRAIDED RUG #2 PROCESS…
…is slow and tedious as I make sense of the gathered old grey and green towels and blankets and organize them into a braided spiral pattern – the…
On March 8th, 2012, A DRAB GREY GREEN BRAIDED RUG…
…is the fourth that I have started (but not finished), each for a different floor of the house (and the early beginnings of a new on-going project), this one…
On March 4th, 2012, A CLEAR WARM WINTER NIGHT…
…after a hot sunny summer-like 80 degree day spent in shorts gardening is my prelude to a late night red-eye to NYC, and all of the early March…
On March 2nd, 2012, ROOFTOP GARDEN PROGRESS REPORT…
…is so much greener than just 6 weeks ago, when dry dirt ruled over a newly terraced landscape of meager seedlings – but today the wildflowers have taken…
On February 24th, SUCCULENTS ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER…
…were placed as little garden cuttings a few months ago in a 24″ diameter shallow glass disk – one of about fifty which I had designed and made…
On February 4th, 2012, BUDDING GRAPE VINES…
…(which I have been training around the house for the past 11 years) are a sign that we have entered the back side of winter, the surprising reminder…
On February 3rd, 2012, THAT SHOWY PEACH TREE…
…on the street in front of my house was probably resigned to remaining forever lost in the massive shadow of the looming carob tree to it’s south –…
On February 2nd, 2012, BROCCOLI ON THE ROOF…
…was planted a few weeks ago in the new terraced beds I labored over for weeks, now finally paying off with some evidence of slow February vegetable growth,…
On January 31st, 2012, BRAIDED BLUE RUG ON THE FLOOR IN THE DOME…
…and finally where it should be, after hours and hours and weeks and weeks of dyeing, cutting, braiding, and sewing every shred of unused blue (or willing to…
On January 30th, 2012, CAROB TREE STOOLS…
…pieces of the trunk cut to 18 inch units lining a new primitive 20 foot long table in the garden are the legacy of my fallen tree –…
On January 24th, 2012, ANOTHER SUPER SUNRISE…
…graces the east windows of the dome – where I am sleeping these days – a sunrise that is new to the house – previously blocked by the…
On January 22nd, 2012, A CEDAR SOAKING TUB…
…and outdoor shower which I had been scheming for years to place in this strange previously unoccupied corner of the house overlooking the garden – was finally just…
On January 16th, 2012, THE GARDEN ON THE ROOF…
…here was a crazy out of control mess that I first established when I moved into the house 11 years – featuring a lawn, of all things, plus…