Garden Goddesses: Four California Women and Their Legendary Gardens

Popular garden writer and lecturer Donald Olson offers an entertaining tour of four spectacular California gardens and introduces you to the larger-than-life personalities who created them: Kate Sessions, the “Mother of Balboa Park”; Florence Yoch, who designed gardens for Hollywood moguls and famous movies of the 1930s; Virginia Robinson, who created the first estate garden in Beverly Hills; and Ganna Walska, a flamboyant opera singer who used her immense wealth to create Lotusland in Santa Barbara.