I have been visiting Leaning Pine Arboretum for years, and it has become one of my favorite gardens.
For a California garden photographer, seeking landscape settings for mature, appropriate plants adapted to the summer-dry climate, Leaning Pine is near perfect....
The California landscape has always been shaped by fire.
Now two months after the firestorms in Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma Counties, we begin to see the landscape recovering. With a few inches of blessed rain since the fires, the annual...
When I first met Ruth Bancroft in 1992, she was already 86.
Rounding the corner on an early morning photo shoot in her garden I saw her bending over a gravel path looking for something. I asked her if I...
The devastating Northern California firestorm that swept through Napa and Sonoma Counties in October left a scorched earth.
The Tubb's Fire that destroyed thousands of homes in Santa Rosa, began in Calistoga and on its rapid advance through the hills...
The Denver Botanic Garden gets better every time I visit.
There are new buildings, like the Science Pyramid pictured above, at the end of a marvelous walk and water feature called the El Pomar Waterway.
There are new gardens like the...
A recent garden photography workshop at Denver Botanic Garden became a classic lesson on finding photos. By "finding photos" I ask students to use the full frame of the camera to create composition within a scene that captures their...
The 2017 superbloom in the California deserts was a sensation.
The superbloom began in late winter in the southern most deserts and progressed northward, even into late summer in the High Sierra mountains, a result of ample rain after five...
I do not know the origin, nor can explain my fascination with grasslands.
Perhaps it is some sort of primeval pull of human origin, in the savannas of Africa when humanoids left the jungle to hunt in open range lands....
I suspect that anyone who loves wildflowers heard about the super bloom in California this year. After five years of drought and dry winters, most of California received above average rainfall - and glorious wildflowers.
In Carrizo Plain National Monument, a...
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is one of the premier public gardens of native plants in the country, with a collection of California native plants in a stunning setting around its renowned wildflower meadow, complete with views of the Santa...