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• Exotic paradise in the Oakland Hills: Casa de Sueños
  on Aug 6, 2016 in Bay Area exotic Garden Conservancy garden tour private garden tropical
  Last Saturday, July 30, was another Garden Conservancy East Bay Open Day. I enjoy visiting private gardens I would otherwise not get to see, and I’m glad the Garden Conservancy returned for the second time this year to the Berkeley/Oakland area. Du...
• Desert Garden at The Huntington: New World
  on Jul 30, 2016 in agave cacti cactus desert Huntington New World public gardens Southern California
  In my previous post I covered the Old World section of the Huntington Desert Garden. It’s located near the top of a rise, adjacent to the Desert Garden Conservatory. From here the land gently slopes downward towards the New World section. On a cold...
• Desert Garden at The Huntington: Old World
  on Jul 28, 2016 in aloes desert public gardens South Africa Southern California
  The Huntington in San Marino, CA is one of California’s great estates. Established by businessman Henry Huntington in the early 1900s on what was originally a 600-acre ranch, the Huntington comprises a world-class library, art collections and 120 a...
• California Garden at The Huntington
  on Jul 26, 2016 in garden design Huntington public gardens Southern California
  The first time I visited The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, in December 2014, the entrance area was a construction site. Things looked completely different a year later when I met up with fellow garden b...
• Book review: Protea: A Guide to Cultivated Species and Varieties
  on Jul 24, 2016 in Australia banksia books grevillea leucadendron leucospermum protea proteaceae South Africa
  Writing more book reviews is always near the top of my want-to-do list for this blog. I don’t have a good reason why I haven’t followed through, but I promise that I’m going to do better. And it will start right now. Years ago I became interes...
• Cactus flowers and other ephemeral summer beauties
  on Jul 22, 2016 in cacti cactus flowers stapeliads summer
  This summer has been busier than usual because of that pesky thing called work—you know, the time-consuming activity that gets in the way of fun but pays the bills. While I’ve had less time for gardening (hence fewer posts), summer tends to be a...
• Oasis of green: Bowyer Japanese garden
  on Jul 20, 2016 in Bay Area garden design garden tour Japanese garden private garden
  The last garden my partner-in-crime Kathy Stoner and I visited during the Garden Conservancy’s Spring 2016 East Bay Open Day was the Bowyers’ Japanese garden in the hills of Orinda. After the artistic exuberance of Keeyla Meadows’s and Marcia D...
• UC Davis Arboretum on a Saturday morning in July
  on Jul 17, 2016 in Davis public gardens public landscaping Sacramento Valley UC Davis UC Davis Arboretum
  My favorite place to walk in Davis is the UC Davis Arboretum. This 100-acre public garden on the UC Davis campus is just a few miles from my house and it offers a quick and easy way to get away from it all. Plus, I seem to find something new to photo...
• UC Berkeley Botanical Garden summer smörgåsbord
  on Jul 13, 2016 in Bay Area botanical garden cacti cactus succulents
  On Sunday I joined the Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society for a field trip to the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. The first event of the day was a workshop on hardy Australian plants given by Jo O'Connell, owner of Australian Native Plants Nurs...
• Tranquil backyard paradise: Potomac Waterworks
  on Jul 9, 2016 in Bay Area garden design garden tour landscape design landscaping
  I thought I would continue my coverage of the Garden Conservancy’s Spring 2016 East Bay Open Day, which I attended with fellow garden blogger Kathy Stoner of GardenBook. Not quite able to remember what day it had been, I started to look for my phot...

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