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LA
GARDENS
STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY PRISCILLA LISTER
When I told my fellow San Diegan that I was choos‐
ing Los Angeles for my annual birthday jaunt, she
immediately replied, “That sounds awful.”
he City of Angels is a place veloped as L.A., its public gardens are
San Diegans love to hate — refuges in nature that also reveal a bit of
it’s the traffic, full stop the ancient stories of this region.
.But I found there 10 gems I did my research before I went and
that can be found nowhere made advance reservations for almost ev‐
T else — destinations that of‐ ery public garden and historic house I vis‐
fer magnificent respites in nature, immer‐ ited. It turned out to be one of my favorite
sions in Southern California history, and trips anywhere.
marvelous reminders that even in big I started at The Getty Center, a gar‐
cities, beauty can be found in abundance. gantuan complex of gardens and art that
The public gardens I visited virtually left me agape. Among its varied collections
all began more than 100 years ago and of paintings, sculptures and decorative
traced their beginnings to the huge arts are Vincent Van Gogh’s “Irises,”
acreages once determined by Mexican land Edouard Manet’s “Jeanne (Spring),” Claude
grants of the early 1800s. In a city as de‐ Monet’s “Sunrise,” Rembrandt’s “The Ab‐
The Getty Center’s Central Garden.
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