Gamble’s 2nd annual Festival of Trees was held on December 3 and 4, 2021. After the inaugural festival was held online in 2020, this year’s festival was held in person at Gamble Garden. A total of 51 holiday trees were featured in the festival, each lavishly decorated by individuals, businesses, and community organizations. All trees were successfully auctioned online, with proceeds benefiting Gamble Garden. Twenty-four vendors participated in the Holiday Marketplace. Enjoy photos of the event below. Many thanks to …

Gamble’s inaugural Festival of Trees was held on December 4 and 5, 2020. Originally a walk-through event, the festival was moved entirely online due to pandemic restrictions. A total of 43 holiday trees were featured in the festival, each lavishly decorated by individuals, businesses, and community organizations. All trees were successfully auctioned online, with proceeds benefiting Gamble Garden. Enjoy photos of select trees below. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this event a Success! photos by Nadine Priestley Go …

Gamble Garden was honored to host photographer Saxon Holt in a special photography session for his new book on summer dry gardens. His work has been featured in diverse publications from Architectural Digest and Pacific Horticulture Magazine, to Smithsonian and MoneyMagazine along with most major book publishers, as well as calendars, newspapers, and note cards.  He licenses his garden photography stock photos at PhotoBotanic.com where he also teaches garden photography and contributes to a Learning Center on the art of garden photography. Holt began his career in commercial photography, then focused …

Artists have been capturing landscapes for centuries, but before the late 1800s it was more common to do a rough sketch outdoors and finish the work in the studio.  Outdoor painting gained momentum when Impressionist painters emerged from their studios. They painted outside, amidst nature, because they wanted to capture the effects of sunlight at different times of the day. It has been popular ever since.  Today, the term Plein Air painting (from the French term “En plein air”, or “in the open air”) …