Tag: garden

Yup, I Wrote a Book About Logging and Now I Want to Talk About Driving through the Coastal Redwoods of California

There! I’ve said it and it’s out there in the open—finally. Now I can continue on with my native plants but I had to let that out to explain why I love trees so much, and logging. My drive from the vineyard to Brookings, Oregon had me thinking a lot about trees and of my…

April 6, 2011
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…

March 28, 2011

Yup, I Wrote a Book About Logging and Now I Want to Talk About Driving through the Coastal Redwoods of California