The Red Garden at the GGIE

 

From the nursery catalog, the Court of Flowers

So appropriate for this year, especially with the Mars Perseverence in the news...A Red Garden!

Was it in the Court of Flowers? or Court of Reflections? 

TO BE CONTINUED

From Treasure Island

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Bob & Betty see the Court of Reflections - all red plants!

From David Rumsey: 

David Rumsey 
X is the court of Flowers and W is the Court of Reflections.
The California Nursery Company exhibit, the Old Adobe is in the gardens to the right.

Excellent tip: Art of Treasure Island by Eugen Neuhaus. In addition to the art, he has detailed lists of the plantings in the various courts and areas of the island.

From Anne:

Central in this court were two long rectangular pools flanked by Japanese privet trees 20 to 30 feet high . . . . In this court were more than 93,000 separate plantings. From February to May it was a mass of red ranunculus and red tulips, with a ground cover and borders of  ruby violas and tango red pansies.

The background for these flowers was a mass of red flowering rhododendrons accentuated at various points by plantings of red geraniums.  In May and June red verbenas were at their height and were followed by red salvia. From the first of July until the early fall hybrid    amarayllis, red tuberous begonias, red phlox, red salvia and echium bourgaeanum were the main attraction. From early fall until the 1939 closing chrysanthemums, fuchsias and poinsettias were at their height. The background for these flowers in the red court was carried out as nearly as possible in trees and shrubs which produced red flowers or had a red cast to their foliage; such as red leafed plum (prunus pisardi) , eugenia myrtifolia, red flowering eucalpytus, escallonia rubra, hydrangeas and red bougainvillea.     

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