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Bonsai

How can a tree be structured to look like a miniature version of its natural form?

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Blue photograph depicting tall pine-like trees, large boulders, and a rushing creek.

The Land of Little Rain

Environmental Exploration and Environmental Storytelling

A hill in a garden. At the base of the hill are rocks, spherical green and yellow succulents, and purple flowers. On the hill are succulents with bright orange flowers. At the top of the hill are tall trees.

Desert Garden

Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.

Garden with standing water in the foreground, a large rock next to the water ,and a one-room structure with a curved roof on a hill above the water.

Chinese Garden

A Garden for Scholarship, Relaxation, and Human Connection

A garden with plants in the foreground and a building in the background

Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden is one of the oldest gardens at The Huntington. It was started over a century ago and has undergone a great deal of change over the past 100 years.

Micrographia

Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science

Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem. A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.

Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology

Color illustration of a plant with large green leaves and small flowers. Above the plant is a close up of a brown cylinder.

A Curious Herbal

In creating and publishing her scientific illustrations, Blackwell made important contributions to the medical field.

Lotus

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lotuses and explore how different artists have been inspired by lotuses.