undersea-themed succulent garden

How to Create a Succulent Tide Pool Garden

by Debra Lee Baldwin August 20, 2012 – Posted in: Garden Adventures

An article I scouted and wrote for Sunset is in all regional editions of the September issue. (Most Southern CA garden articles appear in the Southern CA edition only.) One reason is Brett Gum’s gorgeous photography. These are my own photos here. The location is a bluff-top home in the Orange County community of Corona del [...]

Treasures of the San Diego Botanic Garden

by Debra Lee Baldwin April 6, 2011 – Posted in: Garden Adventures

Of the dozen or so botanical gardens I’ve visited, San Diego’s singularly lacks conservatories. It doesn’t need them. Its coastal location has an ideal temperature range for plants as well as people, seldom going below 40 or above 90 F. I live half an hour’s drive from the San Diego Botanic Garden, so I [...]