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Italian
Gardens
Photo
Credits: Donna Dawson
www.ICanGarden.com
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- statues
of the four seasons: Pomona, Ceres, Flora and Hebe
- central
pavilion, flanked by circular loggias that terminate at each
end in a vine-covered gazebo
- In
May there is a tree with large yellow flowers near the wall
named Fremont dendron after a US military officer
who surveyed California around 1850; it is also known as
Mexican flannel bush
- boxwood
hedge was typical of the period when the garden was built in
the 1930's
- general
layout of the garden has remained much the same throughout
- weddings
daily in the summer

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