Mulch Volcanoes: Another Bad Gardening Idea

May 2, 2014

...ist Herbert Bayer’s EarthMound, 1955. Image: GardenHistoryGirl. How strange gardening practices, such as mulch volcanoes, get started is really interesting to me. Mulch volcanoes remind me of miniature versions of minimalist art earthworks or Native American mounds. Is the mulch volcano a kind of outsider landscape art? Is the mulch volcano a misguided attempt at putting a human imprint on nature, what landscape architects call “clues to care?”...

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Seed Tape Workshop at Summer Nights in the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

August 21, 2015

Events

...ll Arts BOTANICAL TOURS with NHM Garden Staff SMOKE FLY SAMPLING with NHM Citizen Scientists PATIO CHATS: The Story of P-22, L.A.’s Famous Mountain Lion ENCHANTING TOY THEATER PERFORMANCES by NHM Performing Arts Staff LIVE ANIMAL PRESENTATIONS ART INSTALLATION, “Edge of Color” by Sarah Rara of Lucky Dragons LADWP Save the Drop Photo-Op Hope to see you there. More info on the Museum’s website....

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How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2016

Garden Design, Gardening

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...antastic sheds in the Loxton/Clark garden: Or this inventive bit of garden art from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden in Altadena: Kelly and I both have mixed feelings about using found materials in a garden. I think the focus is often too much on telling a kind of visual joke, like when you, say put googly eyes on a old muffler and paint it purple. What works about the found art examples below and above from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden is that they are...

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Weekend Linkages: Happiness is $5.99

Mr. Homegrown

August 29, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...How to have a Great-Looking Native Plant Garden There’s a run on horse pills and it ain’t about horses Looking back on #Jamgate The art of dump picking Riotlandia: Why Portland has become an epicenter for far right violence The Carbon Footprint Sham The strange world of grammar conspiracies A very groovy 1972 art history lesson from John Berger...

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Saturday Tweets: Cat Memelord

Mr. Homegrown

June 15, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ich based embroidery artist #womensart pic.twitter.com/kau3VPyzzO — #WOMENSART (@womensart1) June 13, 2019 This thread checker recommended by @makerprojectlab and @TensorFlux is awesome. Side effects include spending Sunday afternoon sorting random bolts in the shop and realizing that 1/4"-28 is kind of rare and I had confused it with a metric size in the past. pic.twitter.com/l6bvwy5J6i — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) June 10, 2019 Like Muzak...

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