RE: Show Off Your Homeland
October 27, 2015 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2015 at 3:49 pm by Whateverist.)
I love nature and our national parks. I haven't been to Big Bend or the Great Smokey Mountains, Popeye's Pappy, but I've been fortunate to see Capital Reef and pretty much all the parks and monuments in the south west. I love red rock country and slot canyons. Hiking the Paria river was incredible. But I can be in heaven bagging a new swimming hole too.
But I can get it up for architecture, history and art too. Here I rely on the wife to drag my butt everywhere it needs to go to get some cultcha.
The number one thing I look to see when I travel is gardens. If you guys have any to recommend, I'm ..what is it Rik would say.. all ears. There are loads of gardens worth seeing on the west coast but one of my all time favorites is Chanticleer https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...0922717398, located in Pennsylvania. On my coast, near Los Angeles, the Huntington is special.
Down the coast toward Beccarox, the Sherwin Library and Gardens https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...3488856707 is worth a trip. North of me in Fort Bragg, the Mendocino Coast Botanical garden is special both as a garden and for the fact you can walk your dog in it on leash.
If you like big estate gardens FILOLI near me is notable especially in the spring time for its bulb displays.
But those are all public gardens and my very favorite kind of garden to see are private ones developed over a number of years. Such as Sally Robertson's in Bolinas https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...6978249747 . In England I was fortunate to visit a couple of private gardens, one outside of Birmingham called the Four Season garden https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...6074982298 and another one near Salisbury.
But I can get it up for architecture, history and art too. Here I rely on the wife to drag my butt everywhere it needs to go to get some cultcha.
The number one thing I look to see when I travel is gardens. If you guys have any to recommend, I'm ..what is it Rik would say.. all ears. There are loads of gardens worth seeing on the west coast but one of my all time favorites is Chanticleer https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...0922717398, located in Pennsylvania. On my coast, near Los Angeles, the Huntington is special.
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Down the coast toward Beccarox, the Sherwin Library and Gardens https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...3488856707 is worth a trip. North of me in Fort Bragg, the Mendocino Coast Botanical garden is special both as a garden and for the fact you can walk your dog in it on leash.
![[Image: 3815284599_b52a26f6de_b.jpg]](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3557/3815284599_b52a26f6de_b.jpg)
If you like big estate gardens FILOLI near me is notable especially in the spring time for its bulb displays.
But those are all public gardens and my very favorite kind of garden to see are private ones developed over a number of years. Such as Sally Robertson's in Bolinas https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...6978249747 . In England I was fortunate to visit a couple of private gardens, one outside of Birmingham called the Four Season garden https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplan...6074982298 and another one near Salisbury.
