Luther Burbank

Georgia O’Keeffe – Gardener

by Saxon Holt February 25, 2014 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Garden Photography

The current show of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, Modern Nature, at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum reveals the the gardener observing nature. The works in the exhibition are all from a period of her life when she painted at the vacation resort town of Lake George, New York, before moving to the Southwest where she spent most [...]

Luther Burbank’s Garden

by Debra Lee Baldwin July 23, 2009 – Posted in: Garden Adventures, Garden Design, Garden Visits, Miscellaneous

Luther Burbank (1849-1926) sent this to my grandmother, an elementary schoolteacher who had her class write letters to the famed horticulturist. Burbank, though childless, enjoyed children—something I learned recently while touring his historic home and gardens in Santa Rosa, CA. The gardens are planted with numerous flowering and fruiting hybrids that owe their existence to Burbank. Some [...]