When we reach the gully, the walking gets harder but we pass clumps of ancient cycads, creating an almost tropical feel.
The business also retails cycads, grass trees and palms.
I also grow various hardy palms, cycads, yucca, agave, and cactus.
As you stroll among the cycads at the Huntington Botanical Garden, you are taking a walk back in time, over 230 million years ago.
Cycads have been around since dinosaurs first crawled out of prehistoric swamps.
Outside, Isaacman put in more plants, including hard-to-find cycads.
Some of the plants include cycads, ferns, the ginkgo biloba tree and the dawn redwood.
Features: The 37-acre Lotusland contains subtropical and tropical plants from around the world, including collections of rare cycads, Chilean wine palms.