Home Garden: The S.F. Bromeliad Society does it again.... Great tour !

The San Francisco Bromeliad Society held their annual garden tour this past weekend for the 2010 season.

We were treated to 4 very different and diverse gardens in Marin County.

Our first stop was to Don Worth’s Palm Garden in Mill Valley.
One of the nicest features about this beautifully planted old garden is the professional quality name plates with the date that the palm / cycad/ or specimen plant was planted.
Many of the palm trees were over 60 years old.

Palms and Puya line the modestly steep driveway.

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A silver Puya

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The interior courtyard succulent garden

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Beautiful epiphytes on fantastic mounts.

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The path leading back down to the street

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At our second location high up on the side of Mt. Tamalpias was a beautifully maintained formal styled garden with a liberal sprinkling of sculptures placed throughout.

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The third garden was a neat little urban grit oasis. I wasn’t able to catch any photo in the extremely bright light to do the small garden justice.

I was extremely excited to see the last garden on the tour. It was designed by its owner Tom Henthrone, a garden designer here in Marin.
Beautiful plants paired together in harmonious plant combinations delighted the eye at every twist and turn along the meandering paths.
Everything flowed seamlessly into one another on this steep undulating hillside.

This first photo , from Toms website, was taken by professional photographer Jay Graham. It really does the garden justice, unlike my my full hot sun blaring photos.