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.
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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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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