Huntington Gardens

 
One of the two major botanical gardens in Los Angeles.  This one reminds us of Central Park, both being a green oasis in an otherwise purely metropolitan setting, and both designed to offer "vista" views and other gardenesque visual treats. The Huntington also has public plantings which contain  some very rare plants, which is not the case in Central Park.  The Huntington also has a wonderful library, but it is somewhat inaccessible without  letters from both the Pope and the Queen.
 
HOWEVER---- the Huntington propagates plants, some of them quite uncommon or even downright rare, and offers them at a public sale, which means it gets forgiven for anything else about it which is imperfect.

These are only a few photos of the plants growing at this massive institutional and historical garden.  They were obviously planted over a wide period of time and there is no record of when.

 

                            Dendrocalamus asper   Phyllostachys aurea (Golden bamboo)   

  Bambusa beechyana            Chimonobambusa marmorea    

                                    Phyllostachys bambusoides     Pleioblastus chino vaginata variegata