This extraordinary Californian garden was the creation of Ganna Walska, a Polish opera singer who bought the estate of Montecito in 1943 while briefly married to her sixth husband. Thereafter the gardens became her chief occupation and they are wondrous – topiary, ferns, orchids, bromeliads, a box mase, succulents, a Japanese garden, a water garden, a blue garden…
Lotusland: A Botanical Garden Paradise
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