Lakewold Gardens
I’ve taken a long sabbatical from this blog, but now it’s time to start learning how to get around in it. So today, this draft from the pandemic is posted.
Gardens
The Alhambra!
Gardens and Moorish architecture on the hill After arriving in Granada, Spain and looking up at it for a day, we finally got to see the Alhambra in all its glory. It took some climbing from our AirBnb accommodation in the old Arab neighborhood called The Albaicin Quarter. (I mean serious hill and stair climbing,…
Point Defiance Park
The garden contains over 1500 roses in 4 quadrants around a wooden pagoda, including a special section for miniatures around a wishing well. All the plantings are protected from native deer by a 12 ft tall fence with locking gates so that we may see all the color week after week.
So many varieties of palm trees in the desert – Who knew?
PALMS Since I moved to the Valley of the Sun, I’ve discovered the many, many kinds of palm trees and palm shrubs that live in this desert. I’m baffled that I have lived this long and not known this. I truly thought that there were maybe 3 kinds of palms, but NO… There are Royal…
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden was not as beautiful as I expected and not as accessible as I had hoped. There are 78 acres of gardens, but very few plants were flowering and many looked very dry or even dying. This is probably the wrong time of year for the best viewing and I think they…
Long Beach and a hidden gem – Sherman Library and Gardens
Long Beach, California appears to be a very much a “blue collar’ town. What we can see of the port is full of working ship derricks and some gas and oil shipping facilities. It reminds me very much of Tacoma’s no nonsense port. Motels, even here, are very expensive along the coast, but we were…
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