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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Thursday 05.31.07
Grubb’s Been Growing.
I was listening, as I do every morning, to the KFOG Morning Show (that’s our local SF radio station). A woman named Flora Grubb was speaking about gardening and her new nursery. I thought, seriously, Flora Grubb, did she make that name up? Or like people often do, did she just grow into it (no pun intended). I mean, what a perfect name for a garden expert extraordinaire and nursery owner.
It’s odd how a name just all of a sudden just starts popping up all around you, and Flora Grubb has been stalking me. Everywhere I turn I see an article about her move from her original site at Guerrero Street Gardens to the new 28,000-square-foot nursery she built in Bayview. She also carries some great home and garden accessories and, offers a conveniently located Ritual Coffee Roasters right inside the nursery!
What a cool job to have, surrounded by lush, green plants all day and helping people build their dream gardens while they sip on cappuccinos. And, she started this business after a dot.com bust, by offering her landscaping services on craigslist, which I find very inspiring and quite impressive.
She had lots of sage advice on KFOG’s In the Dirt with Flora Grubb that day and apparently she checks in with them often. I liked the way she answered callers questions and explained gardening tips in a really down to earth way. She also had great suggestions on the ideal plants for the unusual and ever-changing Bay Area micro-climates. I’ll definitely be getting some greenery, and some coffee, at Flora Grubb Gardens very soon. Doesn’t it look like a cool place?
Flora Grubb Gardens, 1634 Jerrold Avenue, at 3rd Street (415-626-7256).
*All these lovely photographs courtesy of Scott Beale/Laughing Squid at laughingsquid.com.
Thursday 05.31.07
Grubb’s Been Growing.
I was listening, as I do every morning, to the KFOG Morning Show (that’s our local SF radio station). A woman named Flora Grubb was speaking about gardening and her new nursery. I thought, seriously, Flora Grubb, did she make that name up? Or like people often do, did she just grow into it (no pun intended). I mean, what a perfect name for a garden expert extraordinaire and nursery owner.
It’s odd how a name just all of a sudden just starts popping up all around you, and Flora Grubb has been stalking me. Everywhere I turn I see an article about her move from her original site at Guerrero Street Gardens to the new 28,000-square-foot nursery she built in Bayview. She also carries some great home and garden accessories and, offers a conveniently located Ritual Coffee Roasters right inside the nursery!
What a cool job to have, surrounded by lush, green plants all day and helping people build their dream gardens while they sip on cappuccinos. And, she started this business after a dot.com bust, by offering her landscaping services on craigslist, which I find very inspiring and quite impressive.
She had lots of sage advice on KFOG’s In the Dirt with Flora Grubb that day and apparently she checks in with them often. I liked the way she answered callers questions and explained gardening tips in a really down to earth way. She also had great suggestions on the ideal plants for the unusual and ever-changing Bay Area micro-climates. I’ll definitely be getting some greenery, and some coffee, at Flora Grubb Gardens very soon. Doesn’t it look like a cool place?
Flora Grubb Gardens, 1634 Jerrold Avenue, at 3rd Street (415-626-7256).
*All these lovely photographs courtesy of Scott Beale/Laughing Squid at laughingsquid.com.
Thursday 05.31.07
They Like to Get Up Early.
I love this visual blog from 3191, a year of mornings. It’s from Stephanie and Mav, friends that live 3191 miles apart. They like to get up early and each take a photograph, and do not discuss them beforehand. Stephanie (of Portland, Oregon) and Mav (of Portland, Maine) photograph Monday through Friday, but don’t necessarily post every day. But what they post is a brilliant, joint photo project. I love this ingenious idea for it’s spontaneity and element of surprise.
Mav’s pix are on the left. Stephanie’s are on the right. Nice,huh?
Wednesday 05.30.07
Forgiving Mr. Nelson.
As a child I had a real problem with George Nelson. Mr. Nelson’s famous bench was the bane of my young existence. My ever-fashionable parents used ours, as many people still do, as a coffee table. Have you ever tried drawing with your Crayola Crayons on this ridiculous slated bench? It’s a childhood nightmare that has indelibly scarred me. I now require (and sometimes just outright demand) only the smoothest of surfaces for any kind of artistic endeavor.
However, later in life, I fell for Mr. Nelson in a big way. I realized (duh) he’s done some pretty great design work. I even like his stupid bench now. And recently, at the ATSF Smallest Coolest Contest party at DWR, I swooned over this large format, black & white print of George Nelson and his sad looking little dog. He looks so dashing and cavalier in his convertible, and yet very nice, and normal. Not a mean, menacing furniture man, after all. So, I forgive you Mr. Nelson. For more of Mr. Nelson’s work, visit DWR.
Tuesday 05.29.07
Pretty Paper.
Sfgirlbybay reader Jennifer wrote to me in hopes of finding any small wallpaper design studios in San Francisco. She recalled reading an article about a designer in the city, but can’t remember where she read about her. Anyone have an idea who the article might have been about? She would really appreciate any help you could give, as she has a friend who wants to break into the business and is looking for a mentor and perhaps an internship. I was no help at all (I better get on the wallpaper scene!). All I could think of was 5qm, based out of Cologne. Not terribly convenient, but it could be a fun, euro-internship!
5qm collects and sells original vintage wallpapers from the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. You can also purchase newly manufactured wallpapers in lots of cool retro designs, shown in their category called Neo.
