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!
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
Mexican Pepper Leaf in the Bamboo Grove
“Dali’s Bird of Paradise” by Morris B. Squire
Pink Lemonade Lemon in the Subtropical Fruit Garden
Dwarf French Plantain in the Subtropical Fruit Garden
“The Winning Yacht” by Elon Eubanks
African Tulip Tree in the African Garden
“Giant Steel Wildflowers” by Jon Rawlinson
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!