PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF,

I’M A MAN OF CLAY AND GLAZE

PUSHED MUD AROUND FOR SEVENTY YEARS

OR TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DAYS.

Robin Hopper is a man of many parts, mostly worn out, rusty or dysfunctional, due to a lifetime of excesses! He started working with clay at the age of three and is still doing it over 70 years later. His lengthy, peripatetic career as a mudpusher has included side trips into working as a Professional Actor, Stage Designer, Property Maker, Stage Manager, Stage Carpenter, Grocer, Greengrocer, Jazz Musician, Teapot, Wine and Beer-Bottle, Trumpet, Trombone and Bugle Player, European Travel Guide, Founder of Several Clay/Art/Craft Organizations, Alchemist, Geologist, Primatologist, Linguist, Ornithologist, Botanist, Ceramic Historian, Educator, Author, Garden Designer, Lecturer on Japanese Garden Design, Laborer and Star of Stage, Screen and Potter’s Wheel!

Saturday, June 9, 2012

HORTICULTURAL SPECIAL

SATURDAY, 9TH JUNE 2012

LATE SPRING GARDEN

A SELECTION - MID-MAY TO EARLY JUNE!



THE HORN OF PLENTY 


I DIDN'T GET ENOUGH TIME TO FINISH THIS POSTING BEFORE I HAD TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR A WEEK. SO I HAD TO LEAVE IT UNFINISHED. RATHER THAN NOT LEAVE YOU SOMETHING TO LOOK AT, HERE ARE A FEW   GARDEN IMAGES FROM THE LAST THREE WEEKS.  I WILL CONTINUE THE BLOG AS SOON AS I AM ABLE.

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AZALEA DAVIESII



AZALEA KLONDYKE

THE ROTUNDA IN THE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK GRAECO-ROMAN GARDEN


JAPANESE MAPLE - ACER palmatum FILIGREE 

RHODODENDRON HAEMATODES

JAPANESE MAPLE - GARNET

AZALEA


JAPANESE MAPLE KIYOHIME MURASAKI


IRIS PSEUDACORUS

SILVER ISLAND



JAPANESE MAPLE - FILIGREE 





AZALEA 'TANGERINE"



ENKIANTHUS CAMPANULATUS



AZALEA "HELENE SCHIFFNER"


CLEMATIS PATENS "RAMONA


RHODODENDRON PURPURESCENS


AZALEA "CITRINE"


JAPANESE MAPLE - ACER PALMATUM DISSECTUM PURPUREUM

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ENJOY THE PATTERNS, TEXTURES AND COLORS OF LEAVES AND PLANTS. A GREAT SOURCE OF IDEAS FOR FORM AND SURFACE

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5 comments:

  1. jffolliesJune 9, 2012 at 4:24 AM

    Love this.Especially the Acers and structures.Live in Louisiana and the Acers hang on for a summer or two and then look at you on one of those 105 degree days and do a permanent wilt.

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  2. Barbara RogersJune 9, 2012 at 6:36 AM

    Thank you so much...what a gift of diversity! Those azaleas and Japanese maples...whowser dowser!

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  3. CyndiJune 10, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    Love seeing your plants in bloom. I didn't know that there were citrine Azaleas! Gorgeous.

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  4. RachelJune 14, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    I think I'm ready to relocate based on the photographs of your garden!
    Love those Acers but they don't love Arizona!

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  5. Sharon @ Crooked Creek StudioJune 20, 2012 at 8:02 PM

    Wow, what lovely photos! I particularly like the azaleas tangerine and citrine and the rotunda is very inviting. Thank you for sharing your beautiful spaces with us.

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