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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Reflections on 2014

This has been a great year for gardens and learning about gardening! In 2014, Eden By The Bay made a deep dive into gardening history by looking at ancient practices of the early Americans – botanical gardens, soil building, and terraced farming. We also studied four of Linnaeus’s "Apostles," who traveled with expeditions in the 1700s, collecting botanical information and specimens. Plants were on the move in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries as they were collected for gardens, and commerce. Many of the world’s cuisines benefited from this exchange.


Legacy trees
 
Drought tolerant ground covers
 
Plants (and people) on the move
 
Leaf peeping in Vermont
 

Closer to home, we found more great places to view legacy trees here in the San Francisco Bay Area. We also learned more about drought-tolerant plants (especially for clay soil), viewed beautiful flowers in the desert and chaparral of Southern California (despite the drought), and looked for good examples of low-water landscaping. My husband and I visited historic gardens in Massachusetts and Vermont, and enjoyed leaf peeping.

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