China

Quarryhill Botanical Garden (Glen Ellen, CA)

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Quarryhill Botanical Garden was the first stop on our California trek. Located in Glen Ellen (CA) it is one of the pre-eminent Asian botanical gardens in the United States. If you have not heard of it, be sure to check out the link above. I would have written more, but this trip is keeping me very busy.

Enjoy the images below and I am so sorry there are not more at this time. We were talking a lot to a friend of my husband’s about all kinds of wine vine, plant, and horticultural topics so my mind was happily swimming in the mire of words when I should have been snapping pictures.

Golden Larch (Pseudolarix amabilis).
Keteleeria davidiana.
Keteleeria davidiana.
Rhododendron spinuliferum.
Alnus formosana.
Idesia polycarpa.
Idesia polycarpa.
Leycesteria formosa.
Pinus taiwanensis.

The Green Rose

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This is a bloom from a Rosa chinensis var. viridiflora. Ours is still young yet, but it is by far one of my favorite garden plants. Registered in 1830, it is an unusual China rose, with no petals, just a lot of sepal. The blooms are often hard to notice at first, but then you can see them all over. What makes it even more exciting is that it smells of black pepper.