Ann Loves Plants

Category: Garden Visits: California

  • Botanical Highlights from Northern California

    I will need a vacation when I return home from this vacation. As I write this it is raining outside here in the Bay Area and back home it is sunny and warm. When I return, I am guessing that I will have nothing but a lot of work to do. (How gardens can grow!)…

  • Hakone Gardens (Saratoga, CA)

    Located in Saratoga, California Hakone Gardens may very well be the oldest residential Japanese garden in the entire Western Hemisphere. Created by two patrons of the arts from San Francisco the garden was designed and the buildings were built by local Californian Japanese-American landscape architects and architects in 1915. The first building built was the…