THE ROGUE GARDEN: Brent’s Test Kitchen Hey! All you hoity toity landscape designers—this blog’s for you! When my professional landscape design friends come to my home garden for the first time, they are usually thrown off balance by what they see: there are pots and containers everywhere. I constantly rescue or buy plants to try…
Archives for October 2015
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery
5 Tips for Winterizing Your Terracotta Pottery To many people winterizing terra cotta pottery may seem like a completely irrelevant subject for discourse, but consider that you can add this information to your knowledge just IN CASE it ever gets cold enough to freeze. This is an actual problem for people with terracotta pots in…
Book Review: The Inspired Landscape
Book Review: The Inspired Landscape: Twenty-one leading landscape architects explore the creative process by Susan Cohen I planned on liking this book before I opened it, but it had me at the dedication: “For landscape architects – whose works, grounded in the practical, are elevated by their imaginations.” Since we opened our business in 1994,…
What’s Behind Eye of the Day’s Logo?
What’s Behind Eye of the Day’s Logo? DAISY. DAY’S EYE. EYE OF THE DAY. When Brent and I began daydreaming about a name for our business, our daughter Daisy was seven and our lives revolved around her (THAT hasn’t changed). We wanted to incorporate “Daisy” into the name and decided to go for the old…
Garden Cocktails: The Windfall
Garden Cocktails: The Windfall This autumnal cocktail takes some initial work, but really: you won’t be disappointed. Daisy the cocktail maven came up with this in order to use the season’s windfall of apples and Meyer lemons. Ingredients: 1 oz apple infused bourbon (see recipe below) 1 oz Calvados or Apple Brandy (Laird’s is the…
Garden Recipe: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup
GARDEN RECIPE: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup It’s beginning to look like autumn, and on some days it feels like it too. The summer vegetable garden is sad and scraggly, so I know that it’s time for apples, persimmons, pomegranates and winter squash. And soup. This one. ½ c unsalted butter (or ½ c good…