botanic

Visiting botanic gardens, trying new foods, hiking in Malibu, visiting museums and swapping books.

Favorite activities: Visiting botanic gardens, trying new foods, hiking in Malibu, visiting museums and swapping books.

Edinburgh botanic garden recorded 48mm - which is its typical average figure for the entire the month of May.

Another helpful resource has been regular visits to the California Botanic Garden in Claremont, the state’s largest botanic garden devoted entirely to native plants.

Over at Shrubsole, I couldn’t look away from the contemporaneous Chinoiserie “epergne,” a botanically themed silver serving dish whose nine separate floating bowls are surmounted by a pagoda roof topped with a pineapple.