PhotoBotanic

Home
PhotoBotanic

PhotoBotanic Celebrates Plants | Garden photography - illustrating flora, gardens, habitats, and art

PhotoBotanic is a garden photographer's celebration of plants. It is a resource to license photographs and to learn how to photograph gardens.

29/06/2024

For better of worse I spend a lot of time indoors staring at the computer screen tweeking photos, making subtle and not so subtle adjustments. I have become particularly carried away as I go through the photos of GROWISER - a most inspiring, nearly mystical place I visited with my pal David Perry a couple weeks ago. I posted a few images that I created as banners a couple days ago here, and confess to getting lost in art filters today.

I will likely post more photos in a day or two but had extra fun with the images of the mountain lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium montanum) that can be found in the woods there. While 'working the scene', admiring the flowers, waiting for complete stillness, Dave took my photo. I had no idea he was even watching me - I was so absorbed in the bliss; but I am delighted he did - it tells this story better than my photos.

And Dave tells great stories on Substack. This link (if it works) is his own wonderful of the ladyslipper story he has called "The Yoda of Wildflowers"
https://davideperry.substack.com/p/the-yoda-of-wildflowers?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

03/03/2024

Reactivating the PhotoBotanic website with new blog posts and articles on garden photography. The new post, "Cropping A Magnolia Branch"' comes from a recent shoot at San Francisco Botanical Garden San Francisco Botanical Garden where it can be difficult getting a flower close-up looking up into the huge wondrous trees:
https://photobotanic.com/news/cropping-a-magnolia-branch/

01/03/2024

Magnolia time at San Francisco Botanical Garden. These were taken Feb 15 as the peak started. Should be magnificent for another few weeks:
M. dawsoniana
M. campbellii 'Darjeeling'
M. sprengeri var. diva
M. campbellii
M. doltsopa
M. Magnolia liliiflora × veitchii 'Royal Crown'
M. denudata
M. Magnolia campbellii 'Betty Jessel'

28/12/2023

By sheer good luck, my passion for plants, my own little personal, guilty pleasure, is a way to change the world.

Gardeners have impact. Just by planting a single plant, we are caring for the earth; we are adding biodiversity, we are adding life, we are adding beauty. Every small act we do adds resiliency.

Most of my gardening friends do it for the sheer joy of working with nature. Maybe we want to share our bounty, our cuttings and flowers, our knowledge, but we don’t want to think of our own gardens as solutions, we don’t want to make a statement, we just want to be among the plants we love and the people who share that with us.

Now, as I leave the board of Pacific Horticulture, I feel compelled to promote the good work of regional gardening and leave the organization as healthy as possible. We have done great work in the past few years transitioning to online digital media, and as we are about to create a pay-wall to pay for this, I blatantly ask for your support.

When we are not gardening, when we are listening to the news or reading about the impending climate catastrophe and how it will will wreck havoc on human communities, we DO want to contribute solutions, we DO want people to understand there is hope through gardening, green infrastructure, and working with plants.

Let Pacific Horticulture give you voice to support regional solutions so you don’t have to stand on a soapbox, so you don’t have to dig up and pass along all the research that’s proving we can make a difference. Help Pac Hort disseminate that information and promote hope. It will make you feel good knowing someone is promoting the optimism that is gardening. And I certainly hope you are a member and already benefiting from that yourself.

So, in these last few days of the year with many of us making charitable contributions and looking for hope in the New Year please consider making a donation to Pacific Horticulture or becoming a member. In my final act as a Board member I will match any donation, or the $50 membership (up to $1000 total). If you are not already a member it will allow you to access to all the content going forward.

On the donation form, there is a box for comments. Please put Saxon's Match. If your contribution is the form of a $50 membership, which is an entirely different accounting in the system (and different link than donations link here), please message me so that I can match.
https://pacifichorticulture.org/support/

Grace and gratitude are part of being human. Support Pacific Horticulture, we may not have all the answers, but we are certainly looking for them; help us make everyone have a better future.

Thank you *all* for reading this. Happy New Year !!

Gardens matter. Every small act we do adds resiliency

Address

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 19:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 19:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 19:00
Thursday	08:00 - 19:00
Friday	08:00 - 19:00
Saturday	08:00 - 17:00

Website

http://www.photobotanic.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when PhotoBotanic posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to PhotoBotanic:

Shortcuts

Address
Opening Hours
Alerts
Contact The Business
Claim ownership or report listing
Want your business to be the top-listed Media Company?

Country:

City:

Our Story

PhotoBotanic is a garden photographer's celebration of plants. It is a resource to license photographs, read about gardens, and to learn how to photograph them.

We believe gardening matters, that gardeners are the Advance Committee on Climate Change, and can lead the way to a sustainable future. Good photos support this cause. We do what we can and will give photos to any environmental non-profit.