Re: philosophical - glass garden


Note to all living in the Los Angeles Area - Andrew Cao will be this month's 
speaker at the free meeting of the Southern California Horticultural Society 
on Thursday, November 9th at 7:30 p.m. in Friendship Auditorium, 3201 
Riverside Drive, Los Angeles (By Griffith Park).  Andrew's topic will be 
"Glass in the Garden"

Robin Corwin


>From: "Melissa B. Rose" <mbrose@ucdavis.edu>
>Reply-To: mbrose@ucdavis.edu
>To: coopertaggart@earthlink.net, <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: Re: philosophical - glass garden
>Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 08:23:12 -0800
>
>
>Dear Laura,
>I would also like more info on how to obtain the tumbled glass.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>At 07:03 PM 11/02/2000 , CooperTaggart wrote:
> >on 11/2/00 3:09 PM, Diane Whitehead at voltaire@islandnet.com wrote:
> >
> >>> one of my favorite new materials has been brought forward by my
> >>> friends Stephen Jerrom and Andy Cao, who have a "glass garden" here
> >>> in Los Angeles. They use tumbled recycled glass in a variety of
> >>> ways, including as a sort of jewel-like gravel (no sharper than
> >>> regular gravel). They've also made some beautiful walls with the
> >>> material, pressing it into stucco and concrete. These sparkle around
> >>> their collection of aloes and agaves.
> >>
> >> Laura,
> >> Your description of the glass garden reminded me of many stucco
> >> houses built, I think, in the 1930s that had pieces of coloured glass
> >> incorporated in the stucco.  They always fascinated me as a child, as
> >> did the ocean-smoothed pieces of coloured glass along the beach. It
> >> sounds as though your friends made a design of the glass in their
> >> garden walls.  Can you buy this tumbled glass or did they use a rock
> >> tumbler to make their own?
> >>
> >> Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> >>
> >>
> >You can buy it: I'll get their website and forward it to you---I'm pretty
> >sure you can order it in various colors from them....
> >more soon,
> >Laura
> >
>Melissa Rose
>UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
>Center for Cooperatives
>Agricultural Issues Center
>Agricultural Personnel Management Program
>tel (530) 752-5355
>fax (530) 752 -5451
>mbrose@ucdavis.edu

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