California Garden Centre

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California Garden Centre

    garden centre

  • A garden centre is a retail firm that sells plants and products related to gardens as its primary business. It is open to the public, with facilities to care for and display plants.
  • formerly just a couple of flower pots and a woman standing next to a teapot, this has now developed into a 5 star restaurant with the largest selection of sheds and gnomes in the known Universe.

    california

  • A state in the western US, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean; pop. 33,871,648; capital, Sacramento; statehood, Sept. 9, 1850 (31). Formerly part of Mexico, it was ceded to the US in 1847, having briefly been an independent republic. Large numbers of settlers were attracted to California in the 19th century, esp. during the gold rushes of the 1840s; it is now the most populous state
  • (californian) of or relating to or characteristic of California or its inhabitants; “Californian beaches”
  • a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
  • In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it.

california garden centre

california garden centre – The Getty

The Getty Center (Architecture in Detail)
The Getty Center (Architecture in Detail)
The Getty Center opened in 1997 to critical acclaim. Located in the Brentwood Hills above Los Angeles, the Center comprises the J Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute of Arts and the Humanities, and four other arts institutions which focus on scholarship, conservation and education. The billion-dollar project took over 13 years to accomplish, and includes extensive landscaped gardens. This text, with working drawings, offers an investigation of the building from project to built work.

Center Garden

Center Garden
The Central Garden, created by renowned artist Robert Irwin, lies at the heart of the Getty Center. The 134,000-square-foot design features a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway that leads the visitor through an extraordinary experience of sights, sounds, and scents.

This image is available as a high quality 20×30-inch poster print which you can then get framed if you desire! Let me know if you’re interested in purchasing a poster print for only $40 (price includes shipping in a rolled tube within the continental U.S. and is signed by Volo, the photographer). E-mail voloproductions@hotmail.com

California Miramar

California Miramar
Statues/sculptures at the California Garden Centre in Miramar

california garden centre

The Huntington Library: Treasures from Ten Centuries
With its outstanding library, art collections, and botanical gardens, the Huntington is one of the richest cultural centres in the world. The library, which holds several million items, is one of the largest and most comprehensive research collections of British and American history and literature. This publication showcases some of the Huntington’s finest rare books and manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a Gutenberg Bible on vellum, a double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, and an extensive collection of early editions of Shakespeare’s works. Beautifully illustrated and skilfully designed, this welcome addition to the series presents these and many other highlights from a distinguished collection.