Category Archives: garden visit

More GC Open Days/Pasadena

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Denise

More on the Pasadena gardens on the Garden Conservancy Open Days, April 25, 2010. This was my first tour of Pasadena gardens. I knew the gardens would be large, stately, formal. What I wasn’t prepared for was their scale. The … Continue reading →

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Western Hills

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Denise

The story of Western Hills can’t be fully told by an outsider, of course, so this will in no way be an attempt at a complete history. The former nursery and now endangered 3-acre garden have woven through Northern Californian … Continue reading →

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March is Women’s History Month

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Denise

Let’s keep to the theme of horticulture, shall we? And just to make it easy, we’ll choose a famous and flamboyant practitioner of the garden arts, Vita Sackville-West, creator of the garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. I doubt there’s … Continue reading →

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