Blue Agave Landscape Design Project After whetting your appetite for planting your own meadow and inspiring visions of golden grasslands, we want to show you a different way of using the “no lawns” concept. Adan Venegas of Blue Agave Landscape in Santa Barbara used lots of Italian terracotta rolled rim pots for planting (surprise!) agaves…
Planters, Pots, and Containers
The Art of Building Large Terracotta Pottery
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…
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…
The Rogue Garden
Brent’s Rogue Garden People often ask me what my garden at home looks like. I laugh and reply it looks like a psychedelic trip to a botanic garden gone rogue with cracked pots. Then they laugh, not sure if I’m being honest or just outrageous, and they’re right, my garden is outrageous and honestly, it…
Baked Earth: The Making of a Greek Pot
The Making of a Greek Pot This month I’m going to discuss a tool that has captured my imagination for nearly 40 years: THE POTTER’S WHEEL. It started for me in Orange County California in 1976 at Irvine High School. For my P.E. class I was taking surfing and the instructor also taught Ceramics. It…
Summer 2015 Garden Design Magazine Review
GARDEN DESIGN: QUICK! GRAB YOURSELF A COPY! Eye of the Day has been involved with the publication Garden Design magazine for many years. The latest iteration of this “magazine” is quarterly and feels more like a book than a periodical. There is absolutely no advertising to interrupt the flow of articles and inspiring photographs. My eye…
