Re: Quien sabe

You also may want to contact other gardens in the
area--they might know.  Lotusland, Santa Barbara
Botanic, and Casa del Herrero.  When I interned at
Lotusland, the staff took a fieldtrip to Casa del
Herrero.  It's a neat estate.

cheers!
bridget
seattle, wa 
with highs in the 40s, fog, and "stagnant air"  

--- Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> wrote:

> I've checked some books I have, with little success.
>  I thought at first that
> perhaps the Acclimatization Garden of Francesco
> Franceschi might 
> possibly have been the Quien Sabe garden that Donald
> Culross Peattie 
> and his wife lived in.  However, that garden was
> called "Montarioso" 
> and is now called Franceschi Park.
> 
> There is a book that might have information about
> this garden: 
> Southern California Gardens: An Illustrated History,
> by Victoria 
> Padilla, first published in 1961, was reprinted in
> 1994.  It 
> includes  a list of Santa Barbara estates open to
> the public in 1915.
> 
>  
>
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/gardens.htm
> is a 
> review of the reprint.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		Diane Whitehead
> 
> 



	
		
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