Filoli Gardens
Woodside, California  April 24, 2003

Filoli, an acronym for "To Fight, To Love, to Live", the credo of the original owner William Bourn, is a 654 estate located 30 miles south of San Francisco. The mansion and gardens are open to the public and maintained through a National Trust. It had been raining the previous night, and on the morning I arrived it was just starting to clear. During my visit I had a complete array of conditions from heavy overcast to bright sun. Quite fortunate. The exquisitely maintained gardens and grounds are most impressive and immanently photogenic. Most of the roses are hybrid teas grown in a formal garden with rows of neatly trimmed boxwood- lined beds. But there were a smattering of other types scatter throughout. There are 49 photos in this set. These photos were taken with an Olympus E20-N digital camera.

*this title is borrowed from the book  "Roses of the World in Color"  by J. Horace McFarland first published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1936

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