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The Max Factor building on Highland Ave, just down from the corner of Hollywood Boulevard. When this photo was taken in 1935, the year it opened. Back then, the corner of Hollywood and Highland was…
Description A first of it's kind. Crystal Blue Salvia is the first salvia to have light sky blue flowers. Crystal Blue Salvia will bloom in early summer and has a nice mound habit. This deer and rabbit resistant perennial is easy to grow in any sunny location. Looking for more care tips? Click here to visit our bulb blog on mid summer care! Photos courtesy of Walters Gardens, Inc.
MARTIN TURNBULL - Author of "The Garden of Allah" series of novels set during the golden years of Hollywood
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The Hollywood Hotel had only just opened when this photo was taken. The photographer was standing on an unpaved Highland Ave but being 1902, I doubt that he had to worry about traffic. Except, perh…
On November 26, 1935, beauty maestro, Max Factor, opened his grand Hollywood Makeup Studio at 1666 North Highland Ave, just down from the Hollywood Blvd corner. It quickly became a mecca for Hollyw…
A color photograph of the Hollywood Hotel is a rare and wondrous thing. It makes it easier to believe that there actually was a grand old dame of a hotel at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Hi…
Max Factor’s origins go back to October 11, 1908, when he opened a tiny shop at 1204 South Central Ave on the edge of downtown L.A. He called it “Max Factor’s Antiseptic Hair Store” and he speciali…
I wasn’t even around when this photo of Coffee Dan’s at the corner of Hollywood and Highland was taken (late 40s, maybe?) and yet somehow I long for the days when that Bank of America wasn’t …
MARTIN TURNBULL - Author of "The Garden of Allah" series of novels set during the golden years of Hollywood
Find New Vintage Red Yarrow (Achillea millefolium 'Balvinred') in Denver Centennial Littleton Aurora Parker Colorado CO at Tagawa Gardens
Without the usual early Hollywood landmarks like the Hollywood Hotel, the Hollywood United Methodist Church, or the Montmartre Café to orient us, I think we’re going to have to take it at face valu…
Here we have a Pacific Electric street car coming from the San Fernando Valley through the Cahuenga Pass and stopping at the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl, where Cahuenga Blvd becomes Highland Ave…
The southwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave in Hollywood has been home to many things over the years. When this photo was taken (I don’t know the date, but from the style of the photogr…
Here are two shots I’ve stitched together of the same store. Gibson Inc. was a tailor and shoe store at 6329 Hollywood Blvd, which put it around the corner from the Knickerbocker Hotel. I don’t hav…
A very desirable garden plant, Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum', commonly known as Plume Thistle, is a tall, branching, upright perennial exhibiting strong, leafless stems with pincushion-like, deep crimson flowers, up to 1 in wide (3 cm), atop a large basal rosette of soft green leaves. A magnet for bees and birds!
On November 26, 1935, beauty maestro, Max Factor, opened his grand Hollywood Makeup Studio at 1666 North Highland Ave, just down from the Hollywood Blvd corner. It quickly became a mecca for Hollyw…
MARTIN TURNBULL - Author of "The Garden of Allah" series of novels set during the golden years of Hollywood
MARTIN TURNBULL - Author of "The Garden of Allah" series of novels set during the golden years of Hollywood
14 - 16 Inches 16 - 20 Inches 16 - 20 Inches 36cm - 41cm 41cm - 51cm 41cm - 51cm Features Enjoy these flowers again and again throughout the summer with rebloom! Violet blue flowers are produced on rosy purple calyxes on a perfectly rounded, dense and beautiful habit. Fragrant Flower Fragrant Foliage Salt Tolerant Attracts: Bees Butterflies Hummingbirds Resists: Deer Rabbits Characteristics Plant Type: Perennial Height Category: Medium Garden Height: 14 - 16 Inches 36cm - 41cm Spacing: 16 - 20 Inches 41cm - 51cm Spread: 16 - 20 Inches 41cm - 51cm Flower Colors: Blue Flower Shade: Violet blue Foliage Colors: Green Foliage Shade: Green Habit: Clump Forming Container Role: Filler Plant Needs Light Requirement: Sun The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours). Maintenance Category: Easy Bloom Time: Early Summer Bloom Time: Late Spring Hardiness Zones: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b Water Category: Average Soil Fertility Requirement: Average Soil Soil Fertility Requirement: Fertile Soil Soil PH Category: Acidic Soil Soil PH Category: Alkaline Soil Soil PH Category: Neutral Soil Uses: Border Plant Uses: Container Uses: Cut Flower Uses: Dried Flower Uses: Landscape Uses: Mass Planting Maintenance Notes: Easy to grow in almost any climate in full sun. Drought tolerant but blooms better with average moisture. Cut back after flowering to promote rebloom. 'Violet Profusion' Salvia nemorosa USPP 31,467, Can PBRAF
If this photo is anything to go by, even in Los Angeles in the 1920s, despite all that empty land, storage space was already an issue. This is the Hollywood Storage Co. building at 1025 N. Highland…
This late 1950s photo is a little bit sad for me. We’re looking north up Highland Ave to Hollywood Blvd. The white building is the Hollywood First National Bank building on the northeast corner, wh…
The Hollywood Hotel stood on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave from February 1903 to August 1956, and for most of those 53 years, it was a Hollywood landmark. But it was also …
One of Hollywood’s most enduring landmarks is the Hollywood First National Bank building at the northeast corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave. It’s pictured here in 1929, a year after it open…
One of Hollywood’s most enduring landmarks is the Hollywood First National Bank building at the northeast corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave. It’s pictured here in 1929, a year after it open…
In this photo gives us a 1930 view looking west along Hollywood Boulevard toward Highland Ave from the Embassy Club, which was a popular place in Hollywood during the early 1930s. It was run by Edd…
Keep your hydrangeas healthy and blooming by pruning them at the right time. Learn how and when to prune hydrangeas, including tips for different species.
Decades before it became a Guinness World Records Museum, Hollywood Theatre was an popular movie house at 6764 Hollywood Blvd just east of Highland Ave. In this photo, 20th Century-Fox’s “My Gal Sa…
The photographer who took this photo on February 7, 1938 was standing between the streetcar tracks running along Highland Ave. He was standing south of Sunset Blvd looking north toward Hollywood Bl…
In this aerial shot of Hollywood follows Highland Ave as it crosses Hollywood Blvd (near the bottom of the photo) then bends to the right before it heads north into the Cahuenga Pass. That white tr…
This beautiful Grade 1 listed house was a lost Cotswold treasure with no gardens to speak of. Set in the winsome Windrush Valley the garden design, partly
