Ruth Risdon Storer, UC Davis

Before we roll into the Ruth Risdon Storer garden, here are some pictures from a nearby border, next to the plant sale area. Unforch, I failed to get a long shot of the whole thing (I wasn't thinking ahead), but here are some closeups. 











And now for Ruth. We've been here before, in 2007 and 2010. More Cotinus coggygria! 



So great.









I kind of love the limp spring bulb foliage here.



Pink phlomis is the best phlomis. 





The alliums poked up all over, accenting everything. 

Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery

Do you like to visit old cemeteries? Have you seen the one in Sacramento? We've come here twice before, once in 2010 and before that in 2007. Maybe I came another time without blogging about it (but why would I do that?), because I feel like I've seen it more than three times in 7 years. No way to be sure if I didn't blog about it tho'. 

Roses ruled the cemetery on this visit. Sacramento has much to offer the rose lover. Visit the grounds around the Capitol. Drop by the UC Davis Arboretum, 25 min west of downtown Sacramento.

The Cemetery has some enormous, fantastic specimens of Fremontodendron californium. It's too late to catch them in their prime in 2013. Go in 49 weeks.

There are other things to see in the native section. The grasses are nice.

Bring a hat. Wear sunscreen.