Re: Embothrium and Harland Hand's garden
>Dear David,
I have ben informed that Lou has sold Harland's garden to
Marjorie Harris, Esq. I believe she is a member of Cal Hort and
previously owned a garden designed by Harland in San Francisc near
Pacific Heights. I learned this from her future next door neighbors
who are delighted that someone who loved the garden and Harland will be
the new owner.
I think you'll find plant influences in some of the gardens you
ennumerated but their are many Harland Gardens of his size and larger
that are much more in his style. Mrs. Richard Spellmann (Doreen) has
one of his last gardens on several acres in El Sobrante for example.
Cheers from the hills-
Michael D. Barclay
opga@wenet.net
david feix wrote:
>
> Hello Cheryl,
>
> I have my home and garden in Berkeley, California,
> near the North Berkeley Bart Station on Delaware
> Street. If you are going to visit Harland Hand's
> garden, you are in for a treat. His sister Lou Schley
> is doing a very good job of keeping the garden in good
> shape, and I had been helping her for a few months
> last summer with the maintenance, before I took a job
> in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, landscaping a palace for
> prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd.
>
> Harland was a past president of the California
> Horticultural Society, and had a very eclectic design
> sensibility, in that he grew alot of different types
> of plants, combining subtropicals, succulents,
> mediterraneans, orchids and rhododendrons and azaleas
> in a way that was uniquely his own style, combined
> with a very original use of hand formed concrete on a
> very steeply sloping site to simulate alpine rock
> formations. There are several articles on his garden
> in old issues of Pacific Horticulture magazine, if you
> have access to them.
>
> I think that Harland has influenced many of the
> current crop of landscape designers here in the east
> Bay Area, myself included. Marcia Donahue's garden,
> Roger Raiche's and Bob Clark's gardens are all East
> Bay gardens that I think share much of Harland Hand's
> influences, and are all located here in the East Bay,
> and have all been or will be included as part of the
> Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens. Sonny Garcia's
> garden in San Francisco is another garden whcih shares
> characteristics with Harland's. All are worth seeing
> if you have a chance, and all are jam packed with more
> species of plants than most people could possibly
> imagine.
>
> My own garden(s) lean more to the subtropical than
> some of the others, as I am specialized in outdoor
> hardy bromeliads, heliconias, succulents, proteas and
> cloud forest plants. I think that I developed my love
> of the tropical look from my travels in Brazil and
> southeast Asia. My garden was featured in the August
> 1998 issue of Sunset Magazine, if you are
> interested...
>
> - Cheryl & Wayne Renshaw <renshaw@best.com> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I think I'll be seeing this garden in a few weeks as
> > part of my plant design
> > class at Foothill College. If it's the garden I
> > think it is, his heirs are
> > planning a renovation of the garden for this
> > spring...my instructor had to
> > do some pleading to allow us to see it now before
> > the renovation. I'm
> > looking forward to seeing it.
> >
> > I've been enjoying your contributions to the list.
> > Where in the Bay Area do
> > you garden? I'm down in the South Bay in Santa
> > Clara.
> >
> > Cheryl
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> > > [o*@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf
> > Of david feix
> > > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 7:48 PM
> > > To: theryans@xtra.co.nz; Mediterannean Plants List
> > > Subject: Re: Embothrium
> > >
> > >
> > > Regarding Embothrium, it can be grown in the San
> > > Francisco Bay Area, although it is quite rare
> > here.
> > > There is a a very beautiful specimen growing in
> > > Harland Hand's garden in El Cerrito, which blooms
> > > reliably every year, and has even set seed. The
> > small
> > > tree is about 15 feet tall. This garden is in the
> > fog
> > > belt of the east bay hills, and gets alot more
> > > humidity and fog drip as a result, and is
> > considerably
> > > more moist than down in the flatlands of Berkeley
> > > where I garden. Harland had amended the whole
> > garden
> > > with a local product called supersoil, and the
> > garden
> > > receives overhead spray irrigation every 3 to 4
> > days
> > > in the dry months.
> > > The garden is well worth a visit, and is open to
> > the
> > > general public during the Garden Conservancy Tour
> > > dates for the Bay Area, as recently as last
> > weekend...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > - Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > > > William Bade wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I haven't taken part in this discussion yet,
> > but
> > > > would like to add that
> > > > > there were laburnums in Danish gardens when we
> > > > lived there. We were
> > > > > cautioned that they were poisonous, and that I
> > > > should watch my children
> > > > > when they played in the garden.
> > > > > I have always wondered about the soil they
> > need,
> > > > as well as the climate.
> > > > > I was told that there was no place in Denmark
> > > > further than 40 miles from
> > > > > the water, and we did have moist air and a
> > lovely
> > > > light which I felt was
> > > > > reflection from the water (Bornholm had it
> > > > especially). In some places
> > > > > the soil was chalky, a vein that ran from the
> > > > island of Mon across Denmark
> > > > > to the Dover Cliffs. Is this why they are more
> > > > successful there?
> > > > > To add another element. I have been told that
> > > > Embothrium is not success-
> > > > > fully grown in the San Francisco Bay Area
> > because
> > > > it needs moist air too.
> > > > > Could this be the reason?
> > > >
> > > > Elly
> > > > Although it doesn't actually NEED a limy soil
> > > > Laburnum, being a legume
> > > > would certainly enjoy it and I am equally sure
> > it
> > > > would prefer a cool,
> > > > moist climate like Britain or Denmark to the hot
> > > > part of California.
> > > >
> > > > Embothrium also, as you suggest, likes a moist
> > cool
> > > > climate, or at the
> > > > least a cool root run, but it can't abide lime.
> > > >
> > > > Moira
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
> > > > Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of
> > New
> > > > Zealand)
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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