Novelist Susan Straight reflects on the ways botanical garden intertwine with her family’s memories.
This is my love letter to botanic gardens, which are not only beautiful places to wander and enjoy the landscape, but are a refuge and haven for families, and the places that teach us how to transform our own plots of earth into our dreams.
I was teaching English as a Second Language at the time, and my husband was working nights at a juvenile corrections facility. I would wander in the botanic garden with my notebook, working on my first novel. Then, when my brother needed help with his year-old daughter, I kept her for some weekends, and took her with me.
My girls and I love a botanic garden plant sale. They’re so popular, you have to arrive early, and bring your Radio Flyer red wagon, as we did, so Rosette could ride with the purchases. My ⅓-acre corner lot in Riverside, where we live in a 1910 former orange grove farm bungalow, has been planned and planted with ideas and plants bought from the UCR Botanic Garden and The Huntington.
Of course, this means I have to pull out baby Mexican petunias all year — but it’s worth the laughter.My garden also has Peruvian Lilies, perennials most people know from florists as alstroemeria, that spread from bulbs. I bought those many years before they were readily available, because of the gardens at UCR, along with Abutilon, with blooms that look like tiny ballerinas.
But what we love about the UCR Botanic Garden is the way it has become home — and more than the plants, it’s the way we learn about native landscapes and introduced landscapes.
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