The Iris

About: Paula Panich

I'm a writer and teacher. I live in Los Angeles, but once lived where alliums needn't be refrigerated, ever. My books include Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love; I will teach a class (open to the public) in the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program in April and May called Making Space: Four Writers, Four Landscapes, Four Passions (M.F.K Fisher, Chekhov, Edith Wharton, and Mary Austin).

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Posted in Gardens and Architecture, Getty Center

The Moment of Alliums

By Paula Panich | Published: March 20, 2011
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It is the week of return—of the vernal equinox, and of the shooting stars—the blue blue-violet alliums in Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at the Getty Center. We’ve been waiting. In late-ish February, green shoots began rocketing from the rich dark… More»

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