After Madame Walska’s death in 1984, Lotusland became a nonprofit botanical garden and opened to the public in 1993. The garden, which is divided into separate sections highlighting roses, cactus, palm trees and of course, lotuses, requires nine full-time gardeners. The Madame wasn’t a fan of traditional flowers that you could wear on your chest…
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Photography Monday: Arlington Garden
Arlington Garden is Pasadena’s only dedicated public garden. It is an example of urban open space complete with plazas, paseos, and gardens. Styled with an Italian style olive allee, numerous succulent and cactus gardens, an Arroyo Seco like pathway flanked by sycamores leading to a vernal pool, an orange grove laid out in grids like historical California orange groves, and…