Ancient Rome in California

Enroute to New Zealand, we spent a couple of night in Los Angeles and managed to visit the Getty Villa in Malibu – an extraordinary confection filled with priceless treasures in a Hollywood setting. The gardens are planted with plants that would have been familiar to the Romans and although they have struggled with the ongoing drought they did work rather well and looked far more authentic than many of the ‘gardens by the square yard’ that a feature of LA.