Winter – San Francisco Botanical Garden
Winter in California’s summer-dry climate is very different from the rest of the country. Leucadendron ‘Safari Sunset’ conebush flowering in San Francisco Botanical Garden, [...]
Fall Color – San Francisco Botanical Garden
It’s true, there is autumn foliage in San Francisco. Just go to Golden Gate Park and take a walk in the Botanical Garden. Panorama [...]
Looking Up – Arnold Arboretum
A mature tree is an awesome thing, clasped to the earth, connected to the sky, drinking in light, breathing out oxygen, sheltering the land, nurturing [...]
Harvard’s Glass Flowers
The famed Glass Flowers are part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a truly fantastic museum in Boston and is fully named The Ware Collection of Blaschka [...]
Sacramento Cemetery Roses
I found an old friend in Sacramento’s Old City Cemetery this spring. I visited the cemetery to help the local Rose Society preserve the historic rose collection found [...]
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
My excuse to visit the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has nothing to do with the inside of the recently renovated museum. I wanted to see [...]
Winter Trees
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, [...]
Underground in New Mexico
The Gopher Holes - Saxon in Wonderland The Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico has a most clever Children's Garden. Short of [...]
Photo Overwhelm
One of the biggest lessons for students who take my garden photography workshops is about “seeing”. If you don’t stop to think what you are really [...]
