This is the driveway (yes, the driveway!)
Nice backyard
A pet cemetery
The French Parterre Garden - this was on the side of the house and Ms. Post had a view of it from her upstairs bedroom window.
The Rose Garden
A personal golf course!
This was one of the prettiest Japanese gardens I've ever seen. In fact, I've never really desired such a garden until I saw this one. It was very impressive, on a steep hillside, and tons of water. I kept wondering what size pump it would take to handle all that water.
Of course I loved the statuary -
Wait, pet cemetery? Did you say "pet cemetery"? The garden has a pet cemetery?! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteThat Japanese garden looks very impressive. I have to go take some pictures of a secret Japanese garden in downtown San Francisco I heard about recently.
Yes, there was a pet cemetery. It was a small circle with about 10-12 graves of pets.
ReplyDeleteWow, real tombstones for her pets. She's not buried there, too, is she?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on the Japanese garden. Now that's one worth cultivating!
Mark me down as thinking the pet cemetery is a *fabulous* garden feature! You just don't expect a pet cemetery! Suddenly, I think if I had a big garden (really big) , I would like to have in it somewhere a small pet cemetery--even if it was fake.
ReplyDeleteAt the San Francisco Flower and Garden show this year, an exhibitor built a small landscape of poisonous plants, subtly adorned here and there with distressed tombstones.