A life-long gardener, Saxon Holt spent his professional time as a commercial photographer until 1985 when he discovered the gardening market and could no longer stay indoors. He quickly developed a reputation as a photographer with a distinct vision and understanding of plants and landscapes.
His work has been featured in diverse publications from Architectural Digest and Pacific Horticulture Magazine, to Smithsonian and Money Magazine along with most major book publishers, as well as calendars, newspapers, and note cards. He licenses his garden photography stock photos at PhotoBotanic.com where he also teaches garden photography and contributes to a Learning Center on the art of garden photography.
Since the publication of that book he has focused on the Summer-Dry Project to help gardeners have success in summer dry climates, an initiative that has evolved from a catchy phrase to enhance the mediterranean gardening concept, to a new book, the summerdry.com website, and a collaboration with the California Center for Urban Horticulture on the WUCOLS* plant database.
He contributes regularly to the Summer-Dry Instagram account, @summerdry.gardens – dedicated to gardeners who want to have success in climates where dry summers are not drought – they are normal.
“In the midst of tumultuous climate change, we realize it’s all the more important that gardeners be stewards of the land, attuned to the local environment on behalf of all creatures. Every small act we do adds resiliency.”
Professionally, Saxon is a member of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), is a Fellow of GardenComm (Garden Writers of America), and is a Board member of Pacific Horticulture Society.
He lives and gardens in Northern California where he has found the climate for plants and adventuresome gardeners to be a constant source of inspiration. When not traveling, he walks every morning with his dog Kona in the summer-dry, winter-wet hills of Marin County. Instagram’s walks with konadog – @saxonholt
