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RANCHO MIRAGE (CNS) - Sunnylands Center and Gardens will open a
photography exhibit next week highlighting the estate's curated trees.

The exhibit, ``Curating Canopy: Trees at Sunnylands,'' will run Sept.
10 through June 6, 2027, at 37977 Bob Hope Drive. Admission is free from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

``This exhibition invites you to see trees as more than landscape
features. Here, they are art -- each with its own sculptural form and seasonal
expression,'' Gardens Director Michaeleen Gallagher said in a statement. ``They
are gifts -- given by friends, by past caretakers, by those who envisioned a
future of shade, growth and beauty.''

The trees date back to the mid-1960s, when Sunnylands founders Walter
and Leonore Annenberg and their landscape architects transformed the 200-acre
site from desert into lush gardens, organizers said.

Photographer David Loftus captured species such as Jacaranda, Virginia
Live Oak and Crepe Myrtle in floor-to-ceiling images featured in the exhibit.

Sunnylands Center & Gardens to Open Tree Photo Exhibit Next Week