Vivian Reiss Landscape Design Site is Launched!
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Banana Bird
I am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of…
Bull’s Blood Beets
I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, "Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio." They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, "Albino", to the "Bull's Blood" beet…
In a circular line, it all comes back
It was announced that for the first time in years the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks were to displayed in the Hudson River. The last time I had seen them over…
Cotton is High!
The world price of cotton in October of 2009 was 66 cents per pound. By October of this year, the price of cotton had risen to $1.26 per pound.The price of cotton had…
Packaging up the chard
My chard grows to great height and girth. I never harvest the plants until I have warning of imminent frost, since it is part of my decorative garden and people enjoy observing…
Cotton; in utero
Growing impatient to see the bolls in my garden burst and ripen with cotton , I picked one today and opened it up to reveal it's inner beauty. Here the developing cotton is placed…
Canadian’s Environmental Satisfaction
Who would have thought that me and my rooftop garden would become the Poster Garden and Girl for Canadian's evironmental satisfaction?http://www.canada.com/health/Local+environments+viewed+favourably+Canadians+despite+broader+concerns+Survey/3687326/story.html Congratulation to the lucky tenants at www.124merton.com
Summer Squash:Liquid Sunshine
Several years ago I put on an event at my gallery www.vreissgallery.com called " The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# It was a collaboration with my daughter, Ariel Garten ,who lectured about…
Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success
Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer's boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15' 8". Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets,…