Southern California Montane Botanic Garden
The Wildlands Conservancy opened the first phase of the Southern California Montane Botanic Garden at Oak Glen Preserve in San Bernardino Mountains in the spring [...]
Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve
It’s a great year for California wildflowers and I finally was able to photograph Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. California poppies Eschscholzia californica flowering in [...]
A California Forest in Autumn
This is magical: Autumn magic in California; Castle Crags State Park A log to sit on and contemplate the changing season, a place [...]
Iris Uncluttered
Quite often when we want to take a picture of a beautiful flower other blossoms in the background clutter up the view. Our eyes are [...]
Redbuds in Bloom
The California Redbud trees (Cercis occidentalis) are in bloom at UC Davis Arboretum. The Warren G. Roberts Redbud Collection along the Putah Creek path that [...]
Oak Ghosts, Skeletons, and Recovery after the Fire
The California landscape has always been shaped by fire. Blackened hills, burned trees and new green grass; Fire damage and recovery from Nuns fire [...]
Fire Recovery Begins
The devastating Northern California firestorm that swept through Napa and Sonoma Counties in October left a scorched earth. California native landscape, recovery after 2017 [...]
Garden Design Interview – Trees
California Valley Oak trees at sunset , Quercus lobata. Garden Design Magazine featured this photo in a recent online interview: Photographer Saxon Holt [...]
A Real Desert Garden
The 2017 superbloom in the California deserts was a sensation. Wildflowers on desert floor of Sonoran Desert at Anza Borrego California State Park with [...]
Summertime – Tree Bark Breaking
It seems to happen overnight – the tree bark on Madrones and Manzanitas breaks and peels back. Madrone, Arbutus menziesii – Summertime Bark break [...]