Compared to the Huntington Botanical Gardens, the Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street are more on the intimate side composed of 23 acres. Filled with pocket gardens, you are constantly surprised by what you will find around the next bend. This concludes my tour of the Denver Botanic Gardens. Next week, more of our trip…
Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses Part IV
The rose labels displayed near each rose contain three pieces of important information: cultivar name, horticultural class and date of introduction or when the cultivar was first sold. We enjoyed reading the labels and were quite entertained by the rose names. If you are ever in the area, you must make a trip to The…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses Part III
The Huntington’s Rose Garden includes important parent roses, roses from prominent hybridizers, and rose cultivars from around the world that grow exceedingly well in Southern California. The garden has been redesigned many times over the years with major plantings in 1922, 1945, 1973, 1982 and 1988. First bloom starts about April 15th and continues until…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses Part II
The Huntington Rose Garden is a rose lover’s delight. Beds upon beds filled with shrub roses, climbing and rambling roses, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Polyanthas, miniatures, and David Austin roses. More roses to come in the next installment for your viewing pleasure. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses
The Huntington’s three and half acre rose garden was first planted in 1908 by William Hertich. In the 1970’s, it was reorganized as a collection garden with more than 4,000 individual plants arranged historically to trace the development of roses from ancient to modern times. We have just started the tour of the Huntington Rose Garden seen…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Chinese Garden
Liu Fang Yuan, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, is the largest Chinese garden outside of China. The creation of the garden began in 2000 and it was open to the public in February 2008. A truly cross-cultural effort between renowned Chinese architects from Suzhou, a city highly regarded for its ancient gardens, and California builders…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Japanese Garden
For our Mother’s Day celebration, our mothers decided they wanted to visit The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. It is a gem tucked away in the pastoral landscape of San Marino, California. A destination site filled with many things to see and do and not enough time to accomplish it all in one…
Cricut Friday: Floral Mother’s Day Card
My mother and mother-in-law deserve a special card in honor of their day. You need the following tools and supplies to create this card: Cricut machine Cricut Florals Embellished cartridge Cuttlebug machine Cuttlebug embossing folder cardstock adhesive rhinestone Fold the purple cardstock so it is a finished size of 4.25″x5.5″ and cut the pink cardstock to 5.25″x 4″. Cut…