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Brassavola David Sander

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:13:09 +0000

Brassavola cucullata x Rhyncolaelia digbyana
A new bloom from this light loving orchid.

Brassavola David Sander

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:11:26 +0000

The characteristic fimbriation on the lip makes this flower look rather dramatic.

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:00:45 +0000

The Getty Center, a postmodernist complex in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is the headquarter for J. Paul Getty Trust founded by oilman J. Paul Getty.

(S. Gary Friedman-Los Angeles Times / gardenvisit.com / Karl Gercens / community.visittheplace.com)

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:58:25 +0000

The Central Garden, created by renowned artist Robert Irwin and built in 1997, is actually a sculpture in the form of a garden. It lies at the heart of the Getty Center. The 134,000-square-foot design features a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway that leads the visitor through an extraordinary experience of sights, sounds, and scents.

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:55:18 +0000

The garden was marked by controversy when it started. Initially, many asked, Why choose an artist without garden experience? Why combine plants so unconventionally?

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:54:12 +0000

Love it or not, millions have engaged the three parts of Irwin’s design — the Stream Garden, the plaza and the Bowl Garden. They have zig-zagged down the Stream’s path, passed the bougainvillea shooting from rebar bowers, crossed over the water cascading into the pool below, then strolled into the intimate, exuberant spirals of the Bowl, centered on its water-bound azalea maze.

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:53:14 +0000

Irwin is shown beneath bougainvillea shooting from rebar bowers, one of several visually playful elements of his creation.

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:51:45 +0000

When I first started making proposals for the garden . . . they said, “You can’t do this.” They all said, “It’s not really a garden.” And I was very taken back by that, because I couldn’t understand approaching something with everything already defined. And it seemed to me that that’s an odd way to approach the world, especially a world as rich as the world of plants.

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:42:01 +0000

“There’s no palette as rich as a garden,” Robert Irwin says. “And the intensity of it — I make this statement all the time: You can’t plan nature; you court her.”

Getty Center – Central Garden by Robert Irwin

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:40:29 +0000

“Ever present, never twice the same. Ever changing, never less than whole” is carved into the plaza floor. It is Robert Irwin reminding visitors of the ever-changing nature of this living work of art.