Huntington Botanic Gardens

[Kris]

Gentlemen lovely visuals...and my eyes were feasting to its brim !

And by the way may i ask in which country is this beautiful garden situated ?

Thanks & Love,

kris

[bahia]

Kris,

The Huntington Botanical Garden and Museum is located in southern California, in the Los Angeles basin in a wealthy suburb of San Marino near the more well known town of Pasadena. This part of the Los Angeles basin backs up against the towering San Gabriel Mountains which are tall enough to get snow every winter. The area where the gardens are now were once orange groves. You might be interested to visit their web site, for more background on the man, the history of the area and the gardens, and the other collections of plants in the gardens. It really is one of the local treasures of Los Angeles, and not to be missed if you get to Los Angeles.

Web site: http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=210&linkidentifier=id&itemid=210

Regarding the trunks of Aloe 'Hercules'; I have never seen one in the SF Bay Area with the patterned bark in the photo, they seem to be just plain trunked similar to Aloe bainsii up here.

For comparison purposes, I will also include the web site for the Ruth Bancroft Garden here in Walnut Creek, which also has a superb collection of Aloes and other succulents, at

web site. www.ruthbancroftgarden.org

[Kris]

Thanks very much for the detailed explaination..

Lots of love,

kris

Kris,

The Huntington Botanical Garden and Museum is located in southern California, in the Los Angeles basin in a wealthy suburb of San Marino near the more well known town of Pasadena. This part of the Los Angeles basin backs up against the towering San Gabriel Mountains which are tall enough to get snow every winter. The area where the gardens are now were once orange groves. You might be interested to visit their web site, for more background on the man, the history of the area and the gardens, and the other collections of plants in the gardens. It really is one of the local treasures of Los Angeles, and not to be missed if you get to Los Angeles.

Web site: http://huntington.or...r=id&itemid=210

Regarding the trunks of Aloe 'Hercules'; I have never seen one in the SF Bay Area with the patterned bark in the photo, they seem to be just plain trunked similar to Aloe bainsii up here.

For comparison purposes, I will also include the web site for the Ruth Bancroft Garden here in Walnut Creek, which also has a superb collection of Aloes and other succulents, at

web site. www.ruthbancroftgarden.org