Gettin' Your Green On at Flora Grubb

Flora Grubb, the artful landscape designer and garden-IT GIRL, is the best kind of green: green because she loves cool plants and green by design. She's not green because there's a profit to be made or because green is the new black.

Even her logo makes me weep. Check out her website right here. Below are a mix of my snaps and hers from the site.




Above - gorgeous still life of tillandsias. Below detail of vertical succulent garden.

Love her furniture, although spendy. Love this table below.




I want to make driftwood shelves for our garden....

Flora, the Earth Mother, myth, the master, the goddess....

Some details from Flora's cottage in the back of her house. Another vertical garden and check out the cool grouping below.






As the Black Eyed Peas say, what's that junk inside your trunk?



What are these totally cool eucalyptus pads? Need one or two.


Another gorgeous table and chairs. The coffee is super delicious (custom drip), so sit here and sip your decaf drip.



Here is David picking out some new sculpture.

Re:visionaries: Van Jones & David Gottfried

Check out the 6-minute video on Van Jones, with an interview by my husband and founder of the USGBC, David Gottfried.

Love the broadening of the context from green technology to creating a revolution and perhaps redemption for the human race, for connecting back to the human spirit through green to reclaim not just discarded materials but discarded lives. Let's create transcendent and ecstatic experience through our work in greening our planet and lives.

It’s deeper than a solar panel.

Van rocks!

Sim Van der Ryn Visit

Sim Van der Ryn is a friend, visionary, and rock star of "sustainable architecture।" He's authored seven books. Sim's Inverness home is extraordinarily beautiful, deep green with inspired design, and I thought I'd post a few snaps of it here.

Above is his gorgeous front door, to the anteroom (top photo and below) that connects many parts of his evolving home. It was painted by Tibetan monks in colors that make you happy.

Lots of queer little artifacts such as this one below in the window facing Inverness Ridge.



Beautiful staircase to his bedroom. The wood is all reclaimed.

Below are a few shots of an awesome redwood root, twirled and turned as an arch on Sim's grounds.

Maya, age 4, is in there for perspective.

I love the sleeping nook (above) and the old bench (below, with pond implements).