Comments on: on the road: luther burbank’s farm http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/08/14/on-the-road-luther-burbanks-farm/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:41:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jo http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/08/14/on-the-road-luther-burbanks-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-3251 jo Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:30:54 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=7069#comment-3251 This story is very similar to the one about the legacy of one of our 19th century English horticultural ancestors: Ellen Wilmot. Her garden is totally lost, apart from a few dafs that linger. She was a leading light too and very influential in many ways, but thousands of her plants were taken away soon after her death and her house demolished. I think it would be sad to go and visit there. BTW, wouldn't you hate to have a Highway named after you? To me that seems the ultimate insult in this particular case. A bridge, yes. But a stretch of road? Peculiar accolade. This story is very similar to the one about the legacy of one of our 19th century English horticultural ancestors: Ellen Wilmot. Her garden is totally lost, apart from a few dafs that linger. She was a leading light too and very influential in many ways, but thousands of her plants were taken away soon after her death and her house demolished.
I think it would be sad to go and visit there.
BTW, wouldn’t you hate to have a Highway named after you? To me that seems the ultimate insult in this particular case. A bridge, yes. But a stretch of road? Peculiar accolade.

]]> By: Country Mouse http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/08/14/on-the-road-luther-burbanks-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-3247 Country Mouse Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=7069#comment-3247 Very interesting reading - your picture of the little cottage reminds me of placed in England - Paignton where my older daughter lives has lots of medieval remnants and one is the old gaol which is a stone leanto in the middle of a development just as in your photo. Another was a small stone church - of St Pancras I think - in Exeter, plonk in the middle of a shopping mall courtyard. Talk about incongruities. Very interesting reading - your picture of the little cottage reminds me of placed in England - Paignton where my older daughter lives has lots of medieval remnants and one is the old gaol which is a stone leanto in the middle of a development just as in your photo. Another was a small stone church - of St Pancras I think - in Exeter, plonk in the middle of a shopping mall courtyard. Talk about incongruities.

]]> By: Pomona Belvedere http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/08/14/on-the-road-luther-burbanks-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-3241 Pomona Belvedere Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:11:58 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=7069#comment-3241 That IS sad that this is all that's left of LB's workplace. I was in Santa Rosa once and was amazed there was so little about him, it was all about the Mission history (sad legacy to me) but nothing about horticulture. Which seems weird in a highly agricultural area. I didn't know about Gold Ridge farm at the time and thought the house was it; I was even more disappointed. Still, I was very interested in your description of the place and what's still growing in it, and it is a bit like stepping into a desanctified cathedral: you can imagine what happened in the very place you're standing on. That IS sad that this is all that’s left of LB’s workplace. I was in Santa Rosa once and was amazed there was so little about him, it was all about the Mission history (sad legacy to me) but nothing about horticulture. Which seems weird in a highly agricultural area. I didn’t know about Gold Ridge farm at the time and thought the house was it; I was even more disappointed.

Still, I was very interested in your description of the place and what’s still growing in it, and it is a bit like stepping into a desanctified cathedral: you can imagine what happened in the very place you’re standing on.

]]> By: tina http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2009/08/14/on-the-road-luther-burbanks-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 tina Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:25:54 +0000 http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/?p=7069#comment-3240 So neat and interesting to visit a place like this and think of the gardener who worked the land. Those shastas are one of my favorites (though they are MOST floppy here in the south) so I appreciate the history. So neat and interesting to visit a place like this and think of the gardener who worked the land. Those shastas are one of my favorites (though they are MOST floppy here in the south) so I appreciate the history.

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