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 Back in March I did a multi day swing through various Southern California locations which included a stop at the Huntington Gardens in San Marino. I managed to produce one post that focused on the entry garden a couple of months later , which you can see here . By the time June rolled around I had been to Garden Bloggers Fling in Austin among other places and the garden visits and photos were piling up. I'm almost (almost) looking forward to winter down time so I can get my photo files in order . 2018 has been a particularly rich garden tour year, and plans for 2019 are already in development, with many options on the table.  This time around we'll have a stroll through the iconic Desert Garden, one of the premier collections of its' type world wide.  The Huntingtons' website states that this garden is 100 years old, the accomplishment  of William Hetrich , the first curator of the gardens. Clearly ahead of it's time-the terms dry-adapted, summer dry, drough...

  I took a whole lot of photos. A whole lot. I had business in Orange County and en route from Carpenteria to my OC hotel I was able to meet up with Denise for a Sunday morning visit to Huntington Gardens . I'm not sure how many years it had been since my last visit here, but I'm thinking it had to be at least 20. I left Southern California in 1986  and my journeys to the Huntington beyond that point mostly involved the rose garden -that was the era that marked  height of my rose collecting fervor and public rose gardens were always on my agenda, especially this one. I still have many roses in my garden but I have stopped buying them  (until I find Lady Hillingdon ) and a quite few  have been removed to make room for other plants. I was far more intent on the Cactus garden on this day and in any case it was still too early for the roses.  This post will highlight the entry garden, which is actually designated The California Garden. This is the 6.5 acre f...