Tangible Memories : Californians and their gardens 1800-1950
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She will always be remembered for her Ventura gardens. His father received it from her in about Her influence on others has been immense. Olompali home and garden, circa Courtesy of the Marin History Museum. Butterfield was thorough but some sections of his book had less material than did others. One such section was Marin County. Butterfield was travelling and writing about Marin County for some time before the Golden Gate Bridge was built.
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He and his wife probably took the ferry from the East Bay to Marin. There were far fewer people living in Marin County then; it was still rural and the gardens were grand and spacious. The property, 8, acres, presumably still belonged to the Ynitia family at the time. The Burdells moved there in and added extensively to the old Ynitia Adobe, ending up with a mansion of twenty-six rooms.
The accompanying picture shows its rambling style. Though the order was not lavish, the property was reasonably well maintained. Later, it deteriorated badly. When that group moved away, Olompali was abandoned to the elements.
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Part of the house burned down in and the outbuildings were all in very bad repair. The well-known greenhouse simply disintegrated. The State of California purchased the estate in and opened it as a state historical park in Various plans were promoted to restore the house and garden, but everything came to a halt when it was realized that the original construction contained asbestos. The buildings were covered with protective sheeting, but the budget has not yet permitted definitive removal.
No one is allowed to enter the house.
The garden was neglected throughout all of these vicissitudes and rapidly became wild. The park service began the process of restoring the garden and a skeleton can still be seen, but the funds to complete the restoration have not been released.
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The park is three miles north of Novato but is only accessible from southbound lanes of Hwy , about 2. The earliest known residential garden in Marin County was at Olompali Ranch. In , a group of Spaniards was travelling north and stopped at a native rancheria a small settlement next to a spring. They camped there for a few days and were made welcome by the native people. In return for this hospitality, the Spaniards taught the natives how to make and build with adobe bricks.
This was the first private dwelling built north of San Francisco. James Black acquired the property and gave it to his daughter upon her marriage to Dr Burdell, a dentist. The original adobe was incorporated in a larger house built by the Burdells when they moved there in When the adobe house was torn down years later, the adobe bricks sprouted many plants and unexpected weeds.
The same phenomenon was noted in several places, such as Lompoc and Napa. Alice Eastwood, curator of the Herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences, believed that the oats had come with a European immigrant, since oats were not indigenous to California. Mrs Burdell laid out a magnificent garden. She understood perspective, grading extensively in front of the house with long graceful terraces leading down to the bay.
Tangible Memories : Californians and Their Gardens 1800-1950 by Judith Taylor (2003, Paperback)
From their wedding trip to Japan, she brought back numerous Asian plants for her garden. She did not copy Japanese garden design, but stuck to the usual plans of the period. The plantings, however, were completely unconventional for the time. Japanese maples, magnolias, oleanders, and camellias survived until the s, when Margaret Boyd was writing. The avenue approaching from the road consisted of handsome eucalyptus and pines, with amaryllis in the understory. In the center of the round flowerbed, a tall spiral palm was dominant.
Next to the front entrance of the house, there were four additional tall palms. One was an old oak Quercus with a cross that had been carved in its bark to commemorate the only person to die in the Bear Flag revolt of 18XX. The other was a redwood Sequoia sempervirens , grown from a seed found in the crop of a quail killed at Fort Ross on the Sonoma coast.
Another handsome feature of this garden was a rich hedge of pomegranate Punica granatum.
While Mrs Burdell had the resources to make her garden unusual, the rest of the ranch gardens from that period were in much the same style: Almost nothing of these gardens remained at the time Boyd was writing. Occasionally, a few roses could be seen, but almost all the old orchards had disappeared.
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Once in a while, Boyd found an isolated, misshapen old pear or apple tree, without any connection to a house. Check the bibliographies and footnotes in books and articles for more extensive references. The California Landscape Architecture and Gardens bibliography maintained by the University of California at Berkeley is a good place to start your research: The most extensive scholarly treatment of California landscape history to date is California Gardens: Creating a New Eden by David C.
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Please try again later. Only a couple of years after the gold rush, there were already delightful gardens in San Francisco and other parts of California. The old cities such a Monterey and Santa Barbara had Spanish gardens dating from the time of the missions.
Nurserymen arrived in droves almost as soon as the gold was discovered. This book describes mnore than 75 early nurseries and their owners in some detail. Nurseries were essential to the creation of gardens. The building of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's largset garden,is given pride of place in this detailed and painstaking work.
You will learn how that fearsome old character John Mclaren, superintendent of the park for almost 50 years, came to the park 17 years after it had been created by William Hammond Hall. There is no memorial to Hall anywhere to be found. The author based this work on a manuscript about old California gardens. She found it lying in a box in the university archives, thirty years after it had been written. Dr Taylor rescued it from oblivion, augmented it extensively and re-wrote large sections to conform with modern taste and style. The archival images alone are priceless.
Almost every county in California is mentioned, reviving the names and memories of wonderful citizens who added something to the state's beauty. They also contributed to establishing the horticultural industry, a very large segment of California's economy. Reading this book gives you a feeling for how plants were imported to the state from all over the world and when some of the most interesting ones arrived. Many came from Australia and the Orient.
The eucalyptus tree, so controversial now, came with the first wave of Australian gold miners. I recommend it very highly. Based on a manuscript written by Harry Butterfield, a Californian devoted to California plants and enthralled by its home gardens, this book owes its existence to the spade-work of Dr. Taylor found the manuscript by accident, while researching her earlier book on the California olive.
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While respecting the original record in Butterfield's manuscript, Taylor expands and illuminates it, providing a detailed record of specific California locations, immigrant gardeners and the plants and gardens they cultivated.