The Art of Building Large Terracotta Pottery In all my days of fascination with clay, there is one tool that I would call my tool of choice: the wheel. But the two things that have influenced me most are my teachers and my travels. Over the past thirty years or so I have had the…
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.
Book Review: Planting the Dry Shade Garden
IT’S NOT A DARK, DRY BOOK! Apparently, figuring out what to plant in an area of your garden that has shade, but no moisture, is a problem that stymies gardeners everywhere. We have been focused like a laser beam on our lack of water and how to logically use what little we have and Planting…
Essence of Summer Salad
ESSENCE OF SUMMER SALAD You’re going to need something else from your garden to go with your cocktail, by the way. Gardens are so wonderful… 1 lb tomatoes, large, small and tiny, yellow, pink, red, black, green. Large ones cut in quarters or eighths. 1 med. cucumber, sliced or cubed, peeled or not Pickled onions…
Garden Cocktails: A Watermelon Toss for Summer
GARDEN COCKTAILS: A METHOD FOR ENJOYING MORE SUMMER If you were smart and planted watermelon vines in your garden, your summer is about to become even more exceptional. A farmers’ market is another way to fulfill your summer watermelon dreams, but either way this remarkable summer drink invented by our daughter, Daisy Ryan, will be…
Eye of the Day’s Fermob Outdoor Furniture in C Magazine
Eye of the Day is in C Magazine! The California lifestyle magazine celebrating the best in fashion, beauty, and home recently profiled the Carpinteria abode of Stephanie and Dewey Nicks, a lifestyle and fashion photographer. The couples’ oceanfront “high modernist-meets-New England traditional” style home has beach life touches from a surfboard hanging at the front…
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of the Romantic Garden
Art in the Garden: Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Long time Eye of the Day customer Henry Null of The Romantic Garden Company recently installed three Italian terracotta Sako balls in a Santa Barbara garden. The three globes, provided by Eye of the Day, were custom colored by the company’s Service department. Null describes…
