You wear that boa well.

I was recently reminded of a fantastic trip I took with The Hortisexuals a few years back to L.A.
I decided to post a few photos from that trip showing some of the different gardens, landscape architecture, sculpture and horticultural delights.

This first grouping of photos shows some of the horticultural delights that caught my eye.

This bamboo vulgaris Vittata is a favorite. I have it planted in my yard but it enjoys a much more tropical climate than I can supply. Here it is loving the LA warmth.

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Another plant that I adore but I just don’t have the warmth for it to perform to its potential perfection is the Giant Bird of Paradise , Strelitzia : Exotic !

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Always a crowd pleaser, Agave attenuatta is another succulent favorite.
Here it is at a private garden and again in the Norton Simon museum garden
It makes a rather nice boa, don’ you think ?

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Norton Simon Museum grounds

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Euphorbias do well in my northern California garden

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As do Ensete ventricosum Maurelii , red banana

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And Geramium madrense and tillandsias. The silk floss tree, Chorisia/ Ceiba, doesn’t thrive in my area.

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I love this bamboo fence and the surrounding mexican weeping bamboo , Otatea acuminata aztectorum

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We had the opportunity to visit Jay Graham’s garden in Malibu. This is his staircase down to the lower garden and stable.

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More photos of LA to come later showing sculpture , art and gardens.