- Author: Toni Greer
Though I try not to always make my blogs a travel log of sorts, it does seem to happen! Everyone searches out something different on their travels, either near or far. As for me, it's nurseries, gardens and parks. (or that crocked tree)
During a recent trip to South Lake Tahoe, we happened to find Aspen Hollow Nursery. While the wind was gusting 45 mph+ and blowing their stock of large trees over, we wandered in, out, through, around and over the trees and large plants that had blown over (picking up what we could as we walked). What struck me about this environmental nursery is their specialty of “high altitude plants”. Rhododendrons, Salvias, Jeffery Pine trees, just to name a few! The felt was as if it were my personal secret garden, with arbors, trellises and nooks around each turn. We would have spent much more time had it not been for the wind.
California is botanically a very diverse state. We make a point while visiting different areas to hunt out nurseries and gardens in those areas. The structure, which is pictured, is made of reclaimed logs and is breathtakingly beautiful. The serenity it creates is wonderful.
Within the borders of this nursery you will come to search out its true story. The owners and designers at Aspen Hollow have created “a sense of wilderness & serenity, an attitude of living with nature, not fighting or trivializing it”.
Be sure to visit the nurseries and gardens in your area through visitors' eyes rather than residents' eyes. It's amazing what you will find locally that you didn't know existed.