Celebrating a year of labor on land, and its beautiful botanical results.
May, 2024
What a Spring! The wet winter, intermittent showers, plus May Gray and June Gloom, brought the gardens at Descanso into a kind of rolling super-bloom.
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| May Day -- Toxicodendron removal suit |
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| The Gate refurbished as a trellis. |
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| May Gray brings our reward for mulching the matilijas and weeding out Natives. |
A magnificent riot in the Rose Garden:
June, 2024
The Old Train Station gets de-commissioned: new beds with boulder borders are laid out in its place, along the Promenade.
Meanwhile throughout June, the New Train Station and Train Garden were a-building on Nature's Table. Work intensified right up to the opening day, July 3.
August, 2024
"Brown is also a color." -- Legendary gardener Piet Oudolf
To round out our year of labor, we got 90-100-degree temperatures this summer. Our work was put into refurbishing the Ancient Forest. Invasives and bracken were hauled out; redwood suckers tamed; ferns endlessly transplanted to make room for the dozens of new cycad specimens we planted. The forest now looks more awesome than ever, like an eerie time-warp into the Jurassic:
"Come to me, all ye who labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you mulch."
To round out our year of labor, we got 90-100-degree temperatures this summer. Our work was put into refurbishing the Ancient Forest. Invasives and bracken were hauled out; redwood suckers tamed; ferns endlessly transplanted to make room for the dozens of new cycad specimens we planted. The forest now looks more awesome than ever, like an eerie time-warp into the Jurassic:
"Come to me, all ye who labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you mulch."
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| Happy Labor Day! |
