IT’S NOT A DARK, DRY BOOK! Apparently, figuring out what to plant in an area of your garden that has shade, but no moisture, is a problem that stymies gardeners everywhere. We have been focused like a laser beam on our lack of water and how to logically use what little we have and Planting…
Archives for August 2015
Essence of Summer Salad
ESSENCE OF SUMMER SALAD You’re going to need something else from your garden to go with your cocktail, by the way. Gardens are so wonderful… 1 lb tomatoes, large, small and tiny, yellow, pink, red, black, green. Large ones cut in quarters or eighths. 1 med. cucumber, sliced or cubed, peeled or not Pickled onions…
Garden Cocktails: A Watermelon Toss for Summer
GARDEN COCKTAILS: A METHOD FOR ENJOYING MORE SUMMER If you were smart and planted watermelon vines in your garden, your summer is about to become even more exceptional. A farmers’ market is another way to fulfill your summer watermelon dreams, but either way this remarkable summer drink invented by our daughter, Daisy Ryan, will be…
Eye of the Day’s Fermob Outdoor Furniture in C Magazine
Eye of the Day is in C Magazine! The California lifestyle magazine celebrating the best in fashion, beauty, and home recently profiled the Carpinteria abode of Stephanie and Dewey Nicks, a lifestyle and fashion photographer. The couples’ oceanfront “high modernist-meets-New England traditional” style home has beach life touches from a surfboard hanging at the front…
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of the Romantic Garden
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Long time Eye of the Day customer Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Company recently installed three Italian terracotta Sako balls in a Santa Barbara garden. The three globes, provided by Eye of the Day, were custom colored by the company’s Service department. Null describes…
The Rogue Garden
Brent’s Rogue Garden People often ask me what my garden at home looks like. I laugh and reply it looks like a psychedelic trip to a botanic garden gone rogue with cracked pots. Then they laugh, not sure if I’m being honest or just outrageous, and they’re right, my garden is outrageous and honestly, it…