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: South Pasadena Garden Tour 2014 Part III
Most of the backyards on the garden tour created space for entertaining as well incorporating sustainable landscaping. Fruit trees and succulents blend with roses and other California native plants to create an interesting tapestry of color and texture. Return next week for the final installment of the South Pasadena Garden Tour 2014. *Tina
Photography Monday: South Pasadena Garden Tour 2014 Part II
The 2014 South Pasadena Garden Tour had seven sustainable gardens for viewing and at least 400 people took advantage of the free tour. Each unique garden showed off principles of sustainability from the use of drought tolerant California native and Mediterranean landscaping, planting for wildlife including ponds and bird habitat to permeable paving options and…
Photography Monday: Arlington Garden Part II
On this site, once stood one of the most elegant homes on South Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena’s “Millionaires’ Row.” In April of 1902, John Durand purchased 10 acres of property known as “Arlington Heights.” After the existing Victorian home was removed, a team of skilled workmen spent more than three years building the reconstruction of…
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…