Summer-Dry
Sustainability is a core value to the garden we feature. In summer-dry gardens, those regions around the world with Mediterranean type climates of dry summers and wet winters, well chosen plants are sustained with little effort. Since we are a California company in a summer-dry region we especially want to encourage gardeners to use these plants and garden photographers to celebrate a distinctive aesthetic.
November 15, 2016
I have been photographing roses in this wonderful private garden in Napa for the past six years. I have more than a thousand photos that I [...]
November 7, 2016
I had a play day today at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma. But the light was bright and sunny, and even though I was only there [...]
October 31, 2016
“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel “Sometimes [...]
October 26, 2016
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 [...]
October 24, 2016
In California we don’t see the Golden Larch tree (Pseudolarix amabilis), a deciduous conifer with beautiful needles native to the moist mountains of China. It [...]
October 24, 2016
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 [...]
October 8, 2016
On a recent visit to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston I found students at Harvard’s Masters of Landscape Architecture program using a framing tool, somewhat [...]
October 3, 2016
I came across an explosion of light during an early-morning photo shoot at San Francisco Botanical Garden. I love arriving at a garden before dawn [...]
September 30, 2016
Native plant gardens tend to be hard to photograph. Often the gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly [...]
September 26, 2016
When a camera measures light it automatically averages the bright areas with the shadow areas. It is the photographers job to decide if an image needs to [...]
