THE FILE 25,000 35mm & digital.

OVERVIEW Gardens, horticulture, landscape, scenics, wildflowers, natural history, adventure travel.

HORTICULTURE Extensive seasonal coverage of horticultural subjects - vegetable, herb and flower gardens as well as individual identified photos of plant cultivars, shrubs, trees, houseplants, bulbs, grasses and wildflowers with accurate captioning. Extensive file, constantly updated. Landscape design, home gardening, garden architecture, hardscape, water gardens, containers, and decor. Public parks, famous and historic gardens of Southern California.

NATURAL HISTORY Flowering and nonflowering native and cultivated plants. Southwest U.S. landscapes, especially red rock canyon country, deserts, desert oases, geologic formations, national/state parks and natural areas, petroglyphs and pictographs, fire ecology, California coastal ecologies.

GENERAL STOCK Outdoor and adventure travel, including backpacking, hiking, river rafting and kayaking.

SPECIALTIES Gardens by style and season. All garden features from design elements to plant portraits.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Gardens of southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Strong coverage of the Southwest: Anza-Borrego Desert SP, Arizona, Big Sur, California (central, southern), Colorado, Death Valley NP, desert Southwest, Grand Staircase-Escalante NM, Joshua Tree NP, Los Angeles River, Mojave NP, Morro Bay, Santa Monica Mountains NRA, Sierra Nevadas, Utah.

CREDITS Magazines/Newspapers: American Homestyle & Gardening, Attaché, California Wild, Chicagoland Gardening, Coastal Living, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Garden Design, Gardening & Deck Design, House Beautiful, Ladies' Home Journal, Los Angeles Home & Decor, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Weekly, National Wildlife, Pacific Discovery, Ponds, Pool & Spa Living, RV Journal, San Diego Zoo News, Sea, Sierra, Sierra Club Outings, Sunset, Western Interiors & Design, Wilderness. Books: Friedman/Fairfax, Lark Books, Meredith, Oxmoor, Pearson Education, Quadrille Publishing Ltd., Rizzoli, Sierra Club, Storey Books, Taunton Press, Time Warner. Advertising/Corporate: Armstrong's Home & Garden Center, Crystal Court, Edward Carson Beal & Assoc., Galper/Baldon & Assoc., Heard's Country Gardens, Hortus Nursery, Knott's Berry Farm, Outdoor Room, Pacific Corporate Towers, The Territory Ahead. Calendars: Los Angeles Times Garden, Smith & Hawken Secret Gardens/Workman Publishing, Hotline Garden, Norwood Garden, Tri Vision Garden. Other: California Arboretum Foundation, Chelsea America Garden Show, City of Santa Monica Environmental Programs Division, Council for a Green Environment, Descanso Gardens, Floriad, Friends of the Los Angeles River, Senator Tom Hayden, Paul Hershfield Design, Los Angeles Garden Show, National Park Service (brochure for Santa Monica Mountains NRA), Rancho Los Alamitos, Virginia Robinson Garden Show, Fred Segal, Trust for Public Land.

COMMENTS Full-time staff provides prompt, well-edited and comprehensively captioned computer-labeled submissions as well as complete digital imaging with electronic delivery options. Available for assignments. Excellent access to California gardens, especially private.