For those of you who have not posted a photo of an ornamental grass for this month’s Picture This Photo Contest, perhaps a photo of the grand prize from High Country Gardens, along with a list of the grasses hand-picked by David Salman, will motivate you to enter.
When the new California Academy of Sciences re-opened last year in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the green roof was a big story with its central design concept-“lifting up a piece of the park and put a building under it”. I was eager to photograph it but could not get permission to walk out on[...]
With September’s Picture This Photo Contest, we continue selecting the best of the best of our colleagues to judge what has quickly become a great place for budding and experienced photographers alike to share photos and in some cases, to be singled out as winners for the month. And so it should come as no suprise to any of you[...]
The response to August’s Picture This Photo Contest was over the top! Our judge, David Perry, not only had a huge amount of work to do just looking at each photo but he also had some hard decisions to make. The first prize winner receives a selection of late summer blooming perennials from High Country Gardens. Now, what everyone has[...]
Sustainability. I suppose like me, many of us wonder what this word has come to mean. In the words of R.E. Faro official blogger for The Late Show Gardens (TLSG), the word : “drifts perilously close to lapsing into the orbit of junk words, satellites reflecting a bit of light but with not enough charge[...]