Plants Celebrated is a section of the PhotoBotanic Learning Center with five sub categories of garden photography by Saxon Holt
Wooden door in brick wall; open from woodland garden to garden beyond at Filoli I love the morning light in gardens. Gardens are fresh, [...]
I have added another California native shrub to the extraction series, Toyon - Heteromeles arbutifolia. Extractions are photobotanic illustrations that are inspired by classic botanic illustrations [...]
Cycad foliage backlit in Huntington Garden, with Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea) Usually I never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to [...]
I am regularly asked by garden publishers why native plant gardens are a mess, and I must say, too often they are right – but [...]
Dawn in the Zambrano garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico I try to treat every garden I visit with a sense of wonder, open to [...]
There was a time when I would never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to have deep, black shadows and no [...]
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden just may be my favorite garden. I may change my mind on the next garden I visit when spring comes, [...]
It is such a relief, a release really, when I can stop my crazy schedule and create something new. Too much of what I seem [...]
I live in sunny California. I can plan a camping trip in summer and never worry about rain. I don’t worry about the roses getting beat [...]
Summers are dry here in California. It’s a summer-dry or Mediterranean climate with wet winters and rainless summers. Gardeners learn to adapt and use plants that [...]