tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21450874259520757782024-03-05T02:50:56.409-08:00j. siegel designs blogJulie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.comBlogger596125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-90984527925264366372016-01-31T18:33:00.002-08:002016-01-31T18:33:28.477-08:00Yippee! My blog has moved...<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...to my updated website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though I have been wearing this vintage scarf for at least three decades, I never saw that it has a literal design of a fruit bowl, a decanter and something else that I still can't identify. During those 30 years, I saw it only in terms of abstract pattern and color. Amazing to see anew...on many levels.</span>Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-57400379565265316772016-01-24T15:42:00.001-08:002016-01-24T15:42:37.550-08:00Space Zinnias<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On my Instagram feed, I am delighted by the NASA posts. I love this one because it shows how real gardeners know that rules don't help plants thrive: paying attention does!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The top image is the fallen fruit of the tree, Liquid Amber (Liquidambar styraciflua) or Sweetgum. Usually it drops its fruit in Spring, just before new growth. I took this photo last week....so it is running several months ahead. The deeply cold weather that arrived yesterday should interrupt that rush to Spring....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Below is a famous image taken by the great American photography, Alfred Stieglitz. Through March 27th, you can visit the superb show at the Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/alfred-stieglitz-and-19th-century">"Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century</a>. Some interesting Julia Margaret Cameron's are included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And on the note of legendary artists: I would like to salute David Bowie. I will miss his presence and expansion of our culture.</span><br />
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-64722582255804589952016-01-02T09:27:00.001-08:002016-01-02T09:27:15.410-08:00Wicker Park Garden Club 2016 Home Landscape Design Workshop: 1 week left to sign up!<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In my opinion (through about five years of participating with the class and a decade with the garden club), this class is exceptional! Not just in the quality of the sheer useful and varied information presented, but, as well, in the exposure to a diverse group of people from throughout the Chicagoland area. It is also a steal in terms of cost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> There are only 10 slots left, so if you can't go, please forward to everybody you think might be interested, or give one as a gift for no reason, which supports the garden club and Random Generosity, one of the best gifts of all!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Now in its 10<sup>th</sup> year the Wicker Park Garden Club’s Home Landscape Design workshop is taught by 5 professional designers and 10 veteran gardens from all over Chicagoland. The 8 week series takes the students through the process of design - both in lectures and in weekly hands-on design project</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-52204374947410037212015-12-31T15:00:00.001-08:002015-12-31T15:00:10.381-08:002016 Greetings for a Budding New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day before the icy storm hit, I was lucky enough to visit <a href="http://www.crabtreefarm.org/">Crabtree Farm</a> with some colleagues. Having only been there about 15 years ago, it was a real treat, especially this more recent building, <a href="http://www.vinci-hamp.com/detail.php?primary=type&secondary=residence&pagenum=1&project=61">Crabtree Guesthouse</a>. I was surprised and pleased to learn the architect was John Vinci, principal of <a href="http://www.vinci-hamp.com/index.php">Vinci Hamp Architects</a>, an old family friend who designed my father's gravestone (as well as their dear friend, the <a href="http://www.artic.edu/research/louis-sullivan-collection">Louis Sullivan</a> champion: <a href="http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1,1,32">Richard Nickel's</a>) at <a href="http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/the-cemetery-of-architects/">Graceland cemetery</a> where you can also see the grave of my dad's mentor, <a href="http://moholy-nagy.org/">Laszlo Moholy-Nagy</a>. [The landscape at Graceland was designed by the great <a href="http://tclf.org/pioneer/oc-simonds">O.C. Simonds</a>.] Above is the view out onto the pool and fields at Crabtree Farm. It's hard to see but, you can make out the perfect garden structure there in the image below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, Crabtree Farm abounds with history. You can catch a glimpse in this view through a current veggie garden towards the indoors tennis court (one of a dozen in the U.S. from the 1920s) by architect, <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-12-18/features/0212180077_1_art-institute-international-style-modernism-houses">David Adler</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And this bench anchors a section of the original garden by <a href="http://lalh.org/the-gardens-of-ellen-biddle-shipman/">Ellen Biddle Shipman</a> next to the Adler-designed residence from the 1920s. I was so impressed by her work, I hungered for a decade before finally visiting the garden on the cover of the above book, at <a href="http://www.stanhywet.org/gardens">Stan Hywet</a> in Akron, a few years ago. Homes and Gardens wear, styles change, but it is still moving to see how certain visions and concepts retain their power.</span><br />
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Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-50460673693080891182015-12-24T13:39:00.001-08:002015-12-24T13:41:27.875-08:00Holiday Greens through the Gates of the Lord<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have through Jan. 3rd, 2016 to see <a href="http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/gates-lord-tradition-krishna-paintings">this fantastic show at the Art Institute</a>!</span></div>
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-48143059872472442952015-11-29T16:35:00.005-08:002015-11-29T16:35:58.784-08:00Virtual Flowers and Pollinator<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-30328995900585496732015-11-29T10:34:00.002-08:002015-11-29T16:38:01.882-08:00NY Times Magazine 11.29.15 "Domains"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are a few other photos I took two months ago at the client job that is featured in today's NY Times Magazine, "Domains" Feature pp 20 and 21.</span></div>
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-25975075750877396732015-11-24T18:33:00.002-08:002015-11-24T18:33:29.485-08:00Happy Thanksgiving: Guatemala on my Chicago mind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While we experienced early snow, setting a 120-yr record here in Chicago (client palette highlighted above by white ground), my mind is on the recent photo (below) sent to <a href="http://www.sustainablesharing.org/">SSG</a> from our Guatemalan friends in <a href="http://www.afopadi.org/">AFOPADI</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am sharing gratitude for the bounty of the harvest and everything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today is a big day in Chicago with the release of the police video. May we all move towards Justice.</span><br />
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-53534341102472876922015-11-19T14:02:00.004-08:002015-11-19T14:02:56.037-08:00Work like being in a candy shop...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-86277263361264001512015-11-09T09:19:00.004-08:002015-11-09T09:19:59.526-08:00Adam & Ezra Siegel: Works<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oldies but goodies. So nice to live with art over time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Top one by Adam, full and with detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bottom one by Ezra, full and with detail.</span><br />
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-79603793711293944972015-11-08T18:45:00.000-08:002015-11-08T18:48:23.205-08:00Pure Joy: Children in the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...one of their children spent her morning running back and forth on the path. This reminds me of a garden I designed years ago. The budget did not permit a literal water feature, so I designed a little triangle of blue blue recycled glass. Soon after it was installed, that client contacted me. He sent a photo of their son playing with a toy dump truck in the triangle, moving the glass back and forth. I love when kids manifest their inherent sense of play in the garden.</span><br />
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Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-73450810336706513182015-10-31T14:52:00.001-07:002015-10-31T14:53:43.933-07:00Pre-Day of the Dead + Sunchokes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's a rainy day in Chicagoland. Pity the poor Trick & Treaters...I am reminded of a Day of the Dead (Nov. 2) which factored significantly in novel I wrote about Guatemala many years ago. More recently, I did spend one of those holidays in the pueblo near where I stay with AFOPADI during my SSG site visits in Guatemala. Yes, there were lots of Calla lilies, plumes of smoke from cigarettes, and alcoholic fumes. But the images I primarily recall are a small metallic radio shiny against the pale, matte stucco of a face-level tomb. And children running across the grave roofs, kites in tow. In those villages: November is the month of Wind... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To remind us of how compost is essential to our life process, here is a photo taken by my great veggie gardener friend, Bernie. It's from his community garden (which land the city of Evanston is considering selling to a private enterprise)...oh, the curse of Northwestern (as a NPO) not paying property taxes. Nothing is too dear for our municipality to take it off the table.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, these are Jerusalem artichokes or Sunchokes. They are Sunflowers, in the Helianthus genus. I just love these tangled roots. It is what keeps us upright. We should never forget what is beneath our soil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have learned more about gardening from this client than any other. This is a small section of her larger landscape where she has been generous & knowledgable enough to share a unique collaborative process over many years. With a science background, she has taught me much about chemistry, water, compost, vegetables, pest & diseases, proper planting technique and of course, design. In our dynamic, I have stretched considerably. Of course: that is a gift. So too, her garden: it is a bit like my step-child. I have been privileged to know it intimately, watch it grow & evolve and to love it like my own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Especially, since "the cobbler's children" applies to my own garden, I am lucky for this client in a multitude of ways. I wish we all had the good fortune of a terrific mentor.</span></div>
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-25754546370818650282015-10-05T16:55:00.001-07:002015-10-05T16:56:42.220-07:00Arthur Siegel and Ellen Soffer<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My long-standing friend, Ellen Soffer, recently sent me this photo of my dad's from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Below, you can see it and its caption. As well, an image from a painting (my first art purchase)I bought from Ellen in 1984. For several years in the 80s, wherever I hung that painting: that was home. Check out her website; Ellen is the real deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the joys and rewards of working in the industry is learning from global experts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They know that for plants to survive, we must not only share them, but pass along knowledge, so they are also usually generous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday, I was fortunate to hear/see presentations by </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">John Greenlee of <a href="http://www.greenleeandassociates.com/">Greenlee & Associates</a> (Meadows & Grasses)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jeff Epping, Director of Horticulture at <a href="http://www.olbrich.org/">Olbrich Botanical Gardens</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">at <a href="http://www.intrinsicperennialgardens.com/">Intrinsic Perennial Gardens</a> run by Brent Horvath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the time John gave a tour of the garden (below) that he had just put together,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For all of you who wrote me to comment on my good eyesight: In the previous post (Insects), I didn't see the insects when I photographed them. It wasn't until I saw the photo enlarged on my computer that I noticed the insects in addition to the plants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why did I use this photo in today's post? Because it shows another example of the virtue of the camera (mine is just iPhone these days): I was photographing this downspout at a client's while measuring for a basemap, but it wasn't until I saw the image later that I "saw" the nice red plant hoop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yippee! We are finally starting to get a little rain...we need it for the plants, of course. And, I love the fresh smell of the rain and the sound of car tires rolling through puddles.</span>Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-89581385735601834972015-09-06T07:16:00.002-07:002015-09-06T07:19:07.633-07:00Insects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It wasn't until today, because I had this date's photos on my screen saver, that I noticed these two insects on the Hibiscus August 17th. Can you ID them? Especially the blue and red one? The other looks aphid-like.</span>Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-89033421268705304682015-09-04T10:19:00.000-07:002015-09-04T10:20:08.193-07:00The Little Petunia That Could...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-35384083368573446302015-08-30T15:02:00.001-07:002015-08-30T15:03:17.621-07:00A Smart, Sustainable Green Wall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Green Walls are very hip...and expensive. Not to mention that they are very difficult to sustain outside in our climate. Whatever zone Chicago is called these days, we still can get the deep cold with no snow cover and that does in a lot of plants. Every year, there is a plant that suffers from stress: cold, hot, dry, wet, insect, disease or human mistreatment; every year, some plant doesn't make it. This past winter, both mature and newer Harry's Walking Stick all seemed to perish.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, why not have this dried Green Wall to lift your spirits? I do not know the price, but if you treat it as a good piece of art, you will have your money's worth.</span><br />
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-7312908333721725592015-08-17T15:22:00.002-07:002015-08-17T15:22:39.247-07:00Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here are a few random literal/visual/otherwise reflections on a vibrant addition to our local Evanston spaces. <a href="http://cultivateurbanrainforest.com/">Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What a delight to experience others creating an environment that is both stimulating and calming with plants, art and "objets." I love how they use the back of this expensive piece of furniture for a blackboard (with that variegated Iris to pop the black): very out-of-the-box.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Reflecting my predilections, the place shows off carnivorous plants, ferns and succulents to their advantages (light conditions mid-day made photographing "interesting"). The owner, Louise Rosenberg, "founded Cultivate on the belief that plants, art and community create a wonderful synergy that is self-sustaining." (Quote from Magic-on-Main 7/27 blog post.) I felt the manifestation!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While Cultivate works as an integrated creation, I was engaged by exploring so many vignettes that also work independently. There is also a lively extension of the space on the back porch. No pix, but I did put my money where my mouth is and support locally when I bought a vintage, white-painted, metal hanging basket for 4-season interest for my dark, covered, north-facing back porch.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Below, you can see one of the otherworldly light reflections.</span><br />
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<br />Julie Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668542359534413638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2145087425952075778.post-2244630304904827462015-08-11T20:56:00.000-07:002015-08-11T20:58:31.307-07:00The landscape of the street and the surf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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