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I was living large with orange marmalade on my bagel this morning, after trying it on some excellent shortbread Sunday afternoon. I first tasted then bought the marmalade<\/a> from the Arlington Garden<\/a> in Pasadena yesterday, where it’s made from their Washington Navel orange trees. (The shortbread was said to be Ina Garten’s recipe<\/a>.) The Arlington Garden was on the Pasadena Open Days Garden Conservancy Tour<\/a>, the same day as the Huntington Botanical Gardens plant sale<\/a>, where I spent a very warm morning. (Does Pasadena do any other temperature?) When plant sales and garden tours collide on the same day, tough choices must be made. I skipped the Pasadena Open Days. The tour of the Arlington was free, so I stopped in briefly on the way out of town to make the first of what I know will be many visits. It’s very close to the south 110 freeway onramp on the Arroyo Seco Parkway<\/a>, California’s first freeway, always an exciting ride when drivers insist on taking its narrow, lazy curves at 85 mph. Like the Arroyo Seco, the Arlington<\/a> is also a first, “Pasadena\u2019s only dedicated public garden<\/em>.” The wildflowers were mostly finished, but the air was heavy and pungent with all the mediterranean scrubby stuff I love so much. Three acres is enough to build up a heady concentration of layered scent that envelopes you from the moment you step off the sidewalk onto the garden’s meandering paths.
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Just behind the stone labyrinth, plein air painters set up their easels at the Arlington Garden under the shade of a California pepper tree<\/p>\n

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Although the California poppies were over, there were stands of red corn poppies, Papaver rhoes. <\/p>\n

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Some details from earlier in the day at the Huntington’s desert garden. Echeveria aff. potosina, Mexico (San Luis Potosi)<\/p>\n

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So many small relevations in the desert garden, like the mass effect of Haworthia cuspidata in bloom<\/p>\n

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Haworthia greenii<\/p>\n

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Bromeliads in the cloud forest conservatory<\/p>\n

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\nThe Huntington still gets me as overexcited as a kid at Disneyland, though my brain continually sheds plant names like my corgi sheds fur. I didn’t forget the name of this conehead in the rain forest conservatory. It was tagless. The leaves reminded me of hedychium.<\/p>\n

Oh, before I forget, from the plant sale I brought home a manfreda and a small Yucca rostrata.<\/p>\n

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