The Desert Garden
The Desert Garden is one of the signature gardens at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in Southern California, known as The Huntington. [...]
Public Gardens in the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic began as spring started, but spring was not cancelled - only humans needed to stop and think about our every move. Public [...]
Public Garden Photo Galleries
Can't get out to visit gardens? Visit our Public Gardens photo galleries for a virtual visual reminder of the beauty to be found in [...]
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 [...]
Orchids – Conservatory of Flowers
The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers always has something in bloom. There is one entire exhibit room full of delights, the Potted Plants Gallery, that [...]
The Transplanted Gardener – Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens arrived in San Francisco from New York. With a masters degree in Public Horticulture and years of planting literally a million trees in [...]
Sunnylands
Sunnylands is a conference Center and gardens near Palm Springs, California. Sunnylands garden; lawn ringed with Cercidium or Parkinsonia ‘Desert Museum’ Palo Verde trees [...]
Cropping A Crabapple
No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. Spring flowering ‘Liset’ crabapple [...]
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 [...]
Leaning Pine Arboretum
I have been visiting Leaning Pine Arboretum for years, and it has become one of my favorite gardens. For a California garden photographer, seeking landscape [...]