Category Archives: garden travel
desert bloom 2019
Let me just say up front, to avoid any confusion, that these are all photos from a December visit to the Desert Garden at the Huntington Botanical Garden. While I love a visit to this glorious garden any time of … Continue reading
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Gardenlust at the Huntington
One of the items on my wish list this holiday is the recently published book Gardenlust by Christopher Woods. And what better way to vet a book than to hear the author himself describe it, which I was able to … Continue reading
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thursday clippings 11/8/18
Some pretty pictures for Thursday. The Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, closed since 2014 to address leaks of up to 5,000 gallons of water a day, is open for business again. But if you want to … Continue reading
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Tagged California State Park, Hearst Castle, Julia Morgan
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touring gardens in Newport Beach
The Southern California Branch of the Mediterranean Garden Society led a tour of some Newport Beach, Calif. gardens last weekend. My assumption that there would be large succulent gardens in the Fallbrook style was no doubt due to my ignorance … Continue reading
of ponds and pyramids at Digging Dog Nursery
Returning to the June 2018 visit to Mendocino for the Garden Conservancy Open Days, the second garden we visited belonged to Digging Dog Nursery, also the home of co-owners Deborah Whigham and Gary Ratway. The garden comprises five acres, the … Continue reading
c’mon & safari with me
So friends and/or relatives are visiting you in Southern California, and you’re sorting through which tourist destinations will please everyone, of all ages and dispositions (even your own sweaty and cranky self at the thought of hitting tourist spots). Do … Continue reading
Garden Conservancy Open Days/Mendocino/Moss Garden
cooler on Sunday, June 24, Mendocino Bot. Garden, a plant mix like nowhere else of conifers, maples, perennials, redwoods. Island beds designed by Gary Ratway. The buzz started spreading at the Austin Garden Bloggers Fling in May, at least among … Continue reading
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friday clippings 6/1/18
I’ve been in somewhat of a torpor since cracking a rib earlier in the week. Planting, digging, relocating potted plants, shoving heavy things around, in other words, my favorite pursuits — very little of this is possible at the moment. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, clippings, garden travel, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Derry Watkins Special Plants Nursery, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, Flowers By The Sea, RHS Wisley, Salvia bullulata 'Pale Form', Salvia guaranitica 'Jean's Jewel'
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multifaceted Mirador house, Austin TX
Heroic in scale, the agaves and Cor-Ten steel undulating walls wet with rain, topped by a grove of Yucca rostrata at the rear entrance to the property. I was so intrigued by this garden I visited in Austin earlier this … Continue reading
wrap-up; Garden Bloggers Fling Austin 2018
the last night’s post-tour dinner in a field of larkspur Austin opened its friendly arms wide, Texas-style, in a full-circle welcome to garden bloggers from all over the world. These annual soirees and orgies of garden touring and plant talk … Continue reading