Does it not seem like the colors of all the annual flowers intensify with their first brush with cooler weather?
At A Glance: The Super-Nova Stage
Posted on: September 18, 2010 1 Comment
At A Glance: The Shop Floor
In 2005, I painted one of the concrete floors in the shop to look like a lawn panel surrounded by gravel. A painting of a tapis vert-a lawn panel of a definite shape. A landscape painting. 
Howard in the grass
paint drips and swirls
Milo in the grass
2010
It might be time for a new idea.
Posted on: September 5, 2010 5 Comments
At A Glance: The Venus Dogwood
I was fortunate to hear recently from Wolfgang Eberts in Germany; he apparently read my previous posts on the Venus Dogwood. He tells me that this fabulous dogwood has proved to be very popular in Europe. He accompanied Elwin Orton, the hybridizer of Venus, to the Chelsea Flower Show, where it took a well-deserved gold medal. Wolfgang is a plantsman, and an European distributor of Venus. His nursery also sells other fine plants, including bamboo. What fun to hear from him. All of the pictures are courtesy of Wolfgang Eberts.
Wolfgang Eberts
from left to right; Wolfgang Eberts, Elwin Orton, hybridizer of Venus from Rutgers University, and Hugh Johnson-taken at Chelsea
trade show display of Wolfgang’s nursery about Venus
trade show booth
detail, Venus flower
fall color
Venus dogwood does not set much fruit here, but when it does, it is spectacular. For more information on Wolfgang Eberts, try www.cornus-venus.com, and www.bambus.de. What a pleasure it was for me to hear from him.
Posted on: August 29, 2010 6 Comments