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.
July 11, 2017
An Orienpet Lily in full bloom is a wonder of nature, and will make a flower photographer out of anyone with a camera of any [...]
July 6, 2017
How much photo retouching is acceptable? This is a question I consider every time I work on my photos on the computer in the post [...]
July 2, 2017
I have just posted a new gallery of photos from San Diego Botanic Garden. Botanic Gardens are the best places for gardeners to learn about [...]
June 29, 2017
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 [...]
May 15, 2017
Western Hills Garden is a treasure. Begun as a homestead in 1959 by legendary plantsmen, Marshall Olbrich and Lester Hawkins, it became one of the [...]
May 4, 2017
The new garden photography workshops at San Francisco Botanical Garden include a visit with a sectional gardener to help us appreciate what we are seeing. The [...]
May 3, 2017
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 [...]
April 30, 2017
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 [...]
March 31, 2017
Garden photography workshops are a great excuse to get serious about your photography and hang out with a pro. You are in a beautiful setting.
March 30, 2017
On March 15, 1774 and December 24, 1775 Juan Bautista de Anza, leading expeditions from Mexico into Alta California, camped in Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego [...]
