The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly know as the Glass Flowers is in the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a fantastic, fantastic museum in Boston. The exhibit has recently been cleaned and refurbished and with new cases with crystal clear glass and organized by plant family to enhance it as a teaching tool [...]
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Are Plants Art ?
June 27, 2016 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Garden Photography“Plants are not art”. So began a provocative Facebook post by Benjamin Vogt. I did not have time to jump into the social media conversation that his post sparked, knowing I would say something too quickly, too passionately, or misunderstood. Benjamin is a friend of mine and a friend of Gardening Gone Wild . His [...]
Photos for an Exhibition
November 26, 2015 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyI have just finished a series of 16×24 photographs for an exhibition. An art buyer, working for an interior decorating firm, requested these 11 vertical photographs for a hospital patient waiting room. The request came out of the blue – I had never worked with this art buyer, and I had never printed any of [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe – Gardener
February 25, 2014 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Garden PhotographyThe current show of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, Modern Nature, at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum reveals the the gardener observing nature. The works in the exhibition are all from a period of her life when she painted at the vacation resort town of Lake George, New York, before moving to the Southwest where she spent most [...]
What I See
November 23, 2010 – Posted in: Garden Design, Garden PhotographyWhere do I begin to describe the wonders that I see? My world is new and changing daily. The following set of photos were taken a few weeks ago, between the two eye surgeries. I began with this Camellia sasanqua ‘Apple Blossom’ quite by accident because at first I simply had to get outdoors, to [...]