Garden Cocktails: Holiday Edition You have so much going on during the holiday season, but you need something special for yourself while you sit down, relax and enjoy all the work you have put into making everyone happy. You could make a second one for someone and continue to spread the happiness. WINTER ICE CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL Serves…
Contained in our blog, Eye on the Garden, you will find interviews with garden professionals, landscape architects, designers and contractors discussing topics ranging from water conservation, how they choose a particular planter, to their design aesthetic. We also often include a story on one of our manufacturers or a new shipment that has arrived at Eye of the Day. We like to showcase garden related books in a monthly review and share a seasonal recipe and cocktail. Brent shares his wanderings in and out of his garden and we’re always on the lookout for new topics to discuss in Eye on the Garden.
Baked Earth: The Truth Behind Authentic Impruneta Pottery
Baked Earth: The Truth Behind Authentic Impruneta Pottery Welcome to another edition of Baked Earth, with information about what’s happening in the world of clay, ceramics and installation pottery. This month, we would like to pop the mythical bubble concerning Impruneta pottery. Impruneta is a commune in the province of Florence, in the Tuscany region…
Terra Malia Designs : Santa Barbara Sonos Headquarters
Earlier this year we were fortunate to meet Terra Basche of Terra Malia Designs in Santa Barbara. She was looking for pots for the new Sonos location in Santa Barbara and found them at Eye of the Day. We caught up with this busy woman and asked her a few questions about her blooming career….
The Rogue Garden: Brent’s Test Kitchen
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…
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,…