Arlington Garden

Arlington Garden is tucked away into a corner of Pasadena. We were passing through, yesterday, and I didn't think we had the $23 apiece to spring for the Huntington Gardens, which are famous and gorgeous. So I looked around on the internet for another garden to see, and found this one, a city garden that's open to the public.

The garden is set up as a set of Mediterranean-type gardens, which works well with the climate and low water environment on the edge of Los Angeles.

We arrived in the early afternoon when the sunshine was flooding the place, so I didn't have the great early morning or evening light that can be so good for photographs. Nevertheless, I got some good ones.

As we walked the trails through this garden, which is probably only 2-3 acres big (I'm not good with what an acre actually means), there were new features around every turn in the path.

The garden has a number of down-home features that you wouldn't find in a Huntington Gardens--bird houses, a gazing ball, statuary, a strange water-nozzle sculpture feature, a labyrinth, a stone dedicated to Earl...

It all works with the character of the place, which tends toward the weedy and kitschy, but in retrospect is rather delightful.

One of the things they offer there is a little grove of orange trees, with signs noting that you can buy their orange marmalade online, if you don't happen to come by for the couple of hours on Saturday morning when someone is actually there, selling it. I wouldn't mind getting some. It's kind of a neat project.

So with that, I think I'll just leave you to enjoy the rest of my photos from the garden, with no further commentary.