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A recent tour of Puya in the Desert Garden with The Huntington's curator of the desert collections, John Trager, turned me from a Puya Ignoramus to a Puya Enthusiast.

Visitors to public gardens tend to view trees as background. Exotic blooms, shimmering ponds, and sweeping vistas of color draw the eye more readily. "Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus first appeared in print 200 hundred years ago, when the author was only 20. Since 1818, her boundary-breaking novel has become the most famous "Gothic"

An old Hollywood crowd graces bed number 15 North in The Huntington's Rose Garden. 'Ronald Reagan' and 'Nancy Reagan' naturally stand together, with 'Ginger Rogers' to one side, 'Dick Clark' on the other, and 'Lucille Ball' and 'Cary Grant' nearby.

E.L. Trouvelot made one big mistake in his life: releasing, by accident, moths he was studying into the woods near his home in Medford, Massachusetts in the 1860s. This error, which had dire consequences for North America's hardwood trees

Home to gorgeous gardens, spectacular art, and stunning rare books and manuscripts, The Huntington also offers an impressive slate of lectures and conferences on topics and themes related to its collections. Featured are audio recordings of 24 recent lectures and conversations.

A group of Herb Garden docents gathered in the Botanical Center's headhouse one recent morning to begin work on a textile installation piece they plan to display at the upcoming Fiber Arts Day, taking place on April 14

Shakespeare's Sonnets are enduringly popular. Many people recognize famous lines from the sequence or even know some of the sonnets by heart. Even though the first edition, published in 1609, was not reprinted in Shakespeare's lifetime