05/01/2026
For Earth Day, and got to spend an afternoon in The Huntington Gardens Bonsai Nursery with Assistant Curator Daniel Deephouse (thanks to friend of the firm a_renee.) With little to no prior knowledge of bonsai, and at least two black thumbs between them (both Allie’s,) they emerged from the nursery calm, fascinated, and honestly spiritually charged. Yes, much of this was due to ’s dulcet voice, but the bonsai were also pretty great. And as it turns out, the way Daniel approaches bonsai isn’t so different from the way we approach home ownership.