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Green Roof Photos

– Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden Visits

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 [...]

What I Learned on My Summer Vacation

– Posted in: Garden Visits

Finding time to get away during the growing season is almost impossible, but there’s one yearly event that I hate to miss: the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference held at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. This year, rainy weather made the whole event more enjoyable, because I didn’t have to feel guilty about not [...]

My Garden’s a Mess

– Posted in: Garden Design, Garden Photography

Where do I start ? “My garden is a mess.”  I hear this quite often when I am asked to photograph a garden.  “I don’t mind, my garden’s a mess too”, I usually reply, trying to put the gardener at ease.  But to be honest,  if the gardener is a serious one I find I [...]