Plants and Sculpture at the San Diego Botanic Garden
Plants and art – two things dearly loved here at Garden Gluttony! The beautiful San Diego Botanic Garden is not only home to plants from all over the world, but it also showcases a diversity of sculpture from local artists throughout the gardens. It’s a great mix of both. I showed you the Bamboo Grove, our nation’s largest collection, in a previous post and now you will see some of the sculpture as well as plants from the part of the garden the pieces are in. Let the art walk begin!
“Castle” by James T. Hubell
Cork Tree in the Entrance Garden
“Sentinel of Silence” by M. Luna de Matteis
In the New World Desert Garden
“Light Tower II” by Deanne Sabeck
Striped Blow Pipe Bamboo in the Bamboo Grove
“Afortunada” by Lia Strell
Mexican Pepper Leaf in the Bamboo Grove
“Dali’s Bird of Paradise” by Morris B. Squire
Pink Lemonade Lemon in the Subtropical Fruit Garden
“Dancers” by Morris B. Squire
Dwarf French Plantain in the Subtropical Fruit Garden
“The Winning Yacht” by Elon Eubanks
African Tulip Tree in the African Garden
Hairpin Banksia in the South African Garden
There are many more pieces than these shown above but my little point and shoot gave up the ghost at this garden – a camera gone to digital heaven! Can you imagine any of these in your garden? Lucky for you they are all for sale. Just click here and you can see more and pick out your favorite.
Two big green thumbs up for plants and art!
The Tropical Garden
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Nell, the founder of Joy Us garden, was born into a gardening family and grew up in Connecticut’s countryside. After living in Boston, New York, San Francisco, & Santa Barbara, she now calls the Arizona desert home. She studied horticulture & garden design, working in the field all her life. Nell is a gardener, designer, blogger, Youtube creator, & author. She’s been gardening for a very long time & wants to share what she’s learned with you.
These photos are beautiful!
Thank you Joshua – so many things to take photos of at this garden!