None of us live by gardening alone. Lately I’ve been going back to some of my earlier days, composing music. If you’ll be anywhere near Long Island later in July I invite you to a performance that’ll include one of… Read More »music in the garden
Here’s a little cartoon I whipped up this morning on Xtranormal, the site that lets you create and distribute your own animations without needing to really know what you’re doing. (When it comes to CGI, that pretty much describes me…)… Read More »california native plant week, the cartoon
Los Angeles artist Jennifer Steinkamp has been creating computer-generated botanical video installations for the last decade. A spectacular new work, Madame Curie, just opened at the downtown gallery of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. It fills a 4,500… Read More »cgi gardens
Plants are way smarter than humans give them credit for being… Here’s a cool, thoughtful video from the very cool TED program that I was first pointed out to me courtesy of a link sent out by International Carnivorous Plant… Read More »stefano mancuso, standing up for plants
Community gardens are at least as much about community as they are about gardening. From 120 miles away, I followed in the pages of the Los Angeles Times the final days of what was then the country’s largest community garden.… Read More »growing together
I wrote earlier about a little patch of Nuttall’s milkvetch (Astragalus nuttallii), a new California native groundcover I’m trying out. Last time, I was pretty enthusiastic. Now, after eight weeks with less than a quarter inch of natural rainfall, I’m… Read More »milkvetch update
I posted a couple months ago about the presence here in town of an extreme topiary garden. At that point I hadn’t had a chance to visit it, but last week I finally made it. The house responsible for the… Read More »gonzo topiary
The morning was warm so I went up onto the deck to soak up a little of the January sunshine. While I was up there I noticed the wind shaking the leaves of one of the potted plants growing up… Read More »quaking and shaking
I’ve had a couple recent posts on insects. While I’ll on the subject it looks like there’s a whole subculture of insect snuff films on YouTube. Notice that the “no animals were harmed during the filming of this video” assurance… Read More »carnivorous plants in action