by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on February 4, 2011
A hot water bottle hits the spot as temperatures dip severely in Central Texas this week. Witness a metal edging exorcism on an install I am currently working on, and get to see a bit of the install and design process behind the scenes. Plants and humans have taken a cold beating and some necessary haircuts, this week inside the East Side Patch.
by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on January 25, 2011
Cold night temperatures create some strange reactions this week in the East Side Patch. See what I really feel about metal edging in a landscape and witness some comical pine cone cacti grimacing in the cold conditions. The Borg queen pops in for her quarterly visit this week in the Patch.
by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on December 28, 2010
Blade Runner Christmas Replicants create havoc during nighttime hours in the Patch this Christmas week. Presents are eagerly opened with frantic small hands, some dusty millers are festively frosted, and a selkie is observed lounging on one of my moss boulders after my purple hearts turn to seaweed. Brick circles offer some formality in a client’s garden and some disgusting hanging handkerchiefs are catching some winter breezes in this weeks episode of the East Side Patch. Did I mention you can learn how to construct an origami unicorn? That is, if you have a few days to burn and fold.
by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on January 6, 2010
Brrrr, another freezing front blows through Central Texas, but what do I care, I hear the carnival setting up camp in the Patch… Okay we might not have all the lights, rides, and well practically anything else you would normally find or associate with a carnival, but we do have this… “Looking good now ESP, [...]
by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on December 8, 2009
Quite literally! Rabbit holes have a very different meaning to me than the average person, why? Well first of all, as a kid, I spent a lot of time around them, inside them, or digging through them. I would invariably find myself at dusk, high up on an exposed Scottish fell with an arm extended [...]
by philip@eastsidepatch.com
on December 5, 2009
“Climb the rigging to the curtain rail” “Secure the jib to the TV” “Yarr, there is a squall coming”… …and the squall has really been catching the mainsail in our living room. That’s right, our front room now resembles the “sailing” Monti Python building in The Meaning of Life, although I wish I could say, [...]