Clip It 1 of 20 next » Photo by: Christopher Whelan Related Tags: Places | Gray | Green | Orange | Pink | Red | Yellow | California | groves | my garden | olive trees | Roses | Valley More Photos My Garden: Color in Massachusetts My Garden: Call Of The Wild My Garden: North Carolina Woodland Reverie David Austin's Garden Roses: A Slide Show This truly spectacular rose garden is in California's San Joaquin Valley, at the base of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Owner Christopher Whelan, a lawyer, who now owns the farm along with his siblings, created the rose garden in an old olive grove that has been in his family for decades. The roses—beautiful and extravagant—are part of a larger story of the land, which has slowly been transformed from a working olive grove into an orange grove, with these 10 acres left as famil...