|Pavonia x gledhillii|  So the other day I was over at the house of my friend James.  He’s is a fellow plantaholic.  I was walking in his driveway and stopped dead in my tracks by this mysterious beauty.  Immediately I…

|clockwise L to R|Farfugium japonicum ‘Giganteum’|Acer davidii|Myoporum floribundum|Manihot esculenta|Agave bovicornuta|  Ok, so when most people think of plants they think of something green.  And to most people green is taken for granted.  It’s just there doing its thing, whatever.  But…

 |Astelia chathamica ‘Silver Spear’|Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’|Plectranthus ‘Zulu Wonder’| My goal when I put plants together is to take their styling from ordinary to the more extraordinary.  It sounds cliché I know but the fact of the matter is I much…

|Sedum nussbaumerianum|Echeveria ‘Black Prince’| I pulled this one from the archives of combinations that I still find simply sumptuous.  Yes I said sumptuous.  Something about the combination of the psychedelic sulfuric reaction of golden Sedum and the deep purple power…