Trees Make the Garden

Old specimens of trees are the heart of this public garden

Linda Micciche shared these images of a new public garden in Fremont , California , which is be after to formally open to the public in April 2019 .

The onetime occupant of the San Jose Mission District in Fremont , California , are the beautiful trees and decorative plants within the Gardens at Palmdale . The garden ’s Monterey cypress , although not endemic to this area , is estimated to be more than 300 years old and was probably planted by the Franciscan missionaries .

A novel non-profit-making cartel , the Gardens at Palmdale , Inc. , was indue by the Sisters of the Holy Family to preserve the gravitas and charm of the core park arena of Palmdale , encompassing all the significant landscaping , historic tree diagram , shrines , and grot . The Gardens at Palmdale will be a meditative walk landscape in the English mode . People will be welcome to stroll , share conversation , and admire the landscape , trees , and flowers from dawn to sundown .

This view of the house on the grounds looks across an old well turned into a planter .

tree diagram are a feature film of this garden . This prominent specimen is a elephantine sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum , Zones 6–8 ) .

Another spectacular tree : a ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba , Zones 5–9 ) in all its evenfall glory . Ginkgos are known for their habit of drop well-nigh all their leaf at the same time , create carpeting of bright atomic number 79 on the ground .

This view of the garden features a dramatic fountain .

The unspoilt , and hardest to acquire , attribute in nearly any garden is huge , mature trees . These hulk are pure magic .

Southernmagnolia(Magnolia grandiflora , Zones 6–9 ) is native to the southeasterly United States but is a beautiful garden fixture wherever it is grown .

persimmon ( Diospyros kaki , Zones 7–10 ) are beloved for their scented orange fall fruit , but they also make a wonderful ornamental feature of speech with their bright fall foliage .

Have photo to partake ? We ’d love to see your garden , a particular collection of plants you love , or a grand garden you had the probability to visit !

To submit , send 5 - 10 photos to[email protected]along with some selective information about the plants in the moving-picture show and where you took the photo . We ’d love to hear where you are located , how long you ’ve been gardening , successes you are proud of , failures you find out from , hope for the hereafter , preferred plants , or funny stories from your garden .

If you want to charge photos in disjoined e-mail to theGPOD e-mail boxthat is just fine .

Have a mobile phone ? Tag your photos onFacebook , InstagramorTwitterwith # FineGardening !

You do n’t have to be a professional garden photographer – curb out ourgarden photography tips !

Do you receive the GPOD by electronic mail yet?Sign up here .

Fine Gardening Recommended product

ARS telescope Long Reach Pruner

Pruning Simplified : A footstep - by - Step Guide to 50 Popular Trees and shrub

DeWalt Variable - Speed Cordless Reciprocating Saw

Get our latest lead , how - to article , and instructional videos sent to your inbox .

Signing you up …

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Collect Rare Plants to Make an Exciting Garden

Making Perfect Vignettes in the Garden

Celebrate Autumn With Beautiful Fruit and Flowers

Plant Winter Interest With Conifers

fall in Fine horticulture for a complimentary engage live webinar featuring Dr. Janna Beckerman , a notable plant diagnostician as well as professor emerita at Purdue University and the ornamentals technical manager …

When I spot a particular sand dollar cactus ( Astrophytum asterias ) at the Philadelphia Flower Show a few months ago , I knew I was in trouble . With a delightful colouration pattern …

When we only prioritise plants we require over plants our landscape needs , each season is sate with a never - terminate list of chores : pruning , top , lachrymation , treating , amend , and fertilizing , with …

Video

Touring an Eco-friendly, Shady Backyard Retreat

You must be thrifty when you accede the backyard of garden decorator Jeff Epping — not because you ’re probable to trip out on something , but because you might be dive - bombed by a pair …