Deep green germander and burgundy Japanese barberry intertwine with silvery santolina and blue-green lavender in Filoli's knot garden.
SPRING !
Saturday, March 18th the Irish Spring Festival at Filoli Gardens:
In Woodside (30 miles south of San Francisco). Festival starts around 10am; we might try for noon or so.
For festival details go to http://www.filoli.org/events.htm
And there's a garden shop... :)
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The gardens at Filoli are quintessentially
Californian: rooted in an earthquake, nurtured by the Gold Rush, and
nourished by a sun-drenched climate that blurs the boundaries between
indoors and out. The gardens were conceived architecturally as a
succession of orderly outdoor "rooms," all enclosed within the
structure of the forested foothills. Each space is walled by hedges
or all�es&emdash;of laurel, rose of Sharon, and copper beech,
among others&emdash;and furnished with graceful, colorful plantings
that lend a distinctive personality. Sprinkled throughout, unusual
specimen trees, topiaries, and standards provide accents. When the
William P. Roth family purchased the estate in 1937, they not only
respectfully preserved this original scheme, but enriched it by
introducing hundreds of rhododendrons, magnolias, lilacs, peonies,
and other plants. Filoli, remarkably intact and still immaculately
groomed, opened to the public in 1975.
-- text taken from National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens
For more on the Filoli Center visit http://www.filoli.org