It’s spring, it’s time for garden tours. Sort of like home tours, but only of the garden. Pasadena has some amazing homes and estates, luckily many of them have a real interest in gardens. I’ll be breaking this post up, not in any particular order. I’m starting with roses.
A number of the gardens had very impressive roses, give them water and they grow extremely well in Southern California.
I really had to edit down my rose pictures, don’t want to bore you to death.
Also, in the case of these flowers, they also had a lovely scent. Something that has been bred out of so many rose hybrids.
People around me knew all the names, there are serious gardening people on these tours.
Me, I love gardens but I’m not a horticulturist.
Sometimes a rose is a very simple thing.
At the Wentworth house, concrete was reporposed back in 1995, long before it was popular to do so. Here, a traditional use as paving stones.
Also used for a patio and pillars. The whole property used to be covered in concrete…. yeah, I don’t understand some people.
I tried to capture other decorative elements from the hardscape.
This reading fellow is part of the house.
The tiles are embedded in the walkways.
Love the lion.
Many of these gardens have outdoor rooms, this must be the original chia pet.
Metal sculpture as a planter…
… as part of the fence…
… or a lamp.
More to come tomorrow.
Leah