Eye of the Day Garden Design Center recently welcomed some members of the San Diego district of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. Headed by Koby Hall of Koby’s Garden Alchemy, Inc., the group of landscape designers hit the road for a weekend of visits to major garden influencers throughout the Santa Barbara area.

They stopped by EOTD here in Carpinteria for some tea and tours by owner, Brent Freitas, and sales rep, Mitch Walker who were happy to share information about our company history and an in-depth overview of our various product lines. This included our Italian terracotta from Terrecotte San Rocco and American pottery from Gladding McBean. The APLD group walked our showroom to see our extensive collection of fountains, statuary, and containers. Brent also spoke about our customization services including coloring, aging, and fountain conversions.

We were happy to see some EOTD items find new homes in future San Diego APLD designs. Special thanks to you guys and we’re happy you could visit!

If your group would like a tour of Eye of the Day, please contact us at: trade@

Click the slideshow for more of the San Diego APLD visit at Eye of the Day:

Eye of the Day will be exhibiting at the Association for Landscape Architects (ASLA) Expo next Monday and Tuesday, October 31^st and November 1^st  at the San Diego Convention Center.  We are very excited to show everyone our beautiful handcrafted Italian terracotta from Terrecotte San Rocco.  We have planned long and hard to make this show a success, and we are excited to be there and see the outcome.

Brent Freitas, owner, and Megan Foster, Marketing and Sales Director, will be working the booth, along with Larry Walling, from Bellissimo Architectural Finishes, who has over 43 years of experience in the applied coatings industry, ranging from industrial/commercial to custom residential.

In our booth we will be showing the diversity and depth of the Terrecotte San Rocco product lines, with pieces ranging from contemporary shapes and forms in the standard terracotta and colored clay, to very classic Italian ornate pieces.  The broad range of product styles and colors that Terrecotte San Rocco produces is what makes it very unique, along with the fact that the clay quality is like none other.

We also look forward to showing our clients and the other expo attendees our various service capabilities.  We will have pieces on display that show the diversity of Eye of the Day’s services, such as the conversion of a contemporary terracotta pot that has been glazed in state-of-the-art acrylics and epoxys into a beautifully flowing fountain (see some of our fountain conversions on our website here).  In addition, we will have examples of our NEW “vintage finishes” which give an old, antiqued appearence to new containers, pots, statuary, etc.

We hope you will stop by our booth if you are at the show (Booth #3131)!  If you aren’t yet signed up to attend but would like to, please contact us at trade@ to get a FREE pass!

Below are some articles regarding the show that may be of interest:

“Biggest EXPO Ever Offers Wide World of Products and Services”

“Top Five Reasons to Register for the Annual Meeting and EXPO”

Green.  We all know green.  And blue and honey-hued.  Even red.  But these new colors are just begging for description.  How about “the color of an early morning Spring sky”? Or “the color of the Pacific Ocean as it meets the sky on a Summer evening”.  There’s also “moody sky before a rainfall”.  As you have learned while reading past posts, we have recently received a container of the exquisite pottery from Anduze, France and walking through Eye of the Day MANY times during each day, each of us has moments to stop and take in the pallette of colors pulled from nature.  The green of a cool forest, the blue in a child’s painting of the ocean, the honey of a field of wheat and the ivory of a butter-rich cream. The red of Marilyn Monroe’s lips?

Anyway… the colors are just the introduction to the story.  The pottery results from a popular legend that an Anduze potter attended a fair in 1610 and fell in love with a Medici vase.  Inspired, he created the first Anduze planter, combining Italian exuberance depicted by the garland decoration and the austerity of the Cevennes region of France shown in the stocky, practical build of the planter.  There is no design style that would not embrace the Anduze Vase.  The shape and style (not to mention the colors) are timeless.  Eye of the Day is the place to find your little corner of French history, your piece of French pottery.