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.
January 3, 2018
Have you ever taken a picture of a trees where it looks like they are falling backwards and leaning in ? This is due to [...]
January 3, 2018
Greetings, and a Happy New Year ! Putting together a selection of my favorite photographs from the past year, is both the easiest and the [...]
December 20, 2017
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 [...]
December 6, 2017
We were distressed to learn the Australian Native Plant Nursery in Casitas Springs, California was burned in the recent Southern California wildfires. Owner, Jo O’Connell, [...]
December 1, 2017
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 [...]
November 28, 2017
For photographers working with fall foliage, the underlying structure of tree trunks and branches can provide subtle ways to hold photographs together.
November 26, 2017
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 [...]
November 15, 2017
It is a great pleasure to be wandering in a garden looking for pictures, and a privilege when she offers fruit. These two Chinese quince [...]
November 10, 2017
Garden Design Magazine featured this photo in a recent online interview: Photographer Saxon Holt shares his experience capturing the above photo for the Great American [...]
November 1, 2017
How to find a photo within a photo in landscape garden photography
