Mangroves at low tide - Nikoi Island in Indonesia.   This has nothing to do with the usual subject of my blog - I don't think a...

While visiting the Gardens by the Bay, I tried a heavenly ice cream coloured like softly blue evening sky. It was flavored with butterf...

In his book The Education of a Gardener , Russell Page describes a small garden in the middle of Paris as following: "I went down a...

Californian poppies, powerful enough to light up grey days in Seattle ... No, I'm not going to whine about the freezing cold i...

A seaside meadow, technically really a pasture, by the seashore in Victoria, Australia. * I've had a long lasting love affair with mead...

The furry, soft buds of Edgeworthia chrysantha, just opening to reveal its bright, yellow flowers. * * Given the mild climate of the Pacif...

A Scrupull of Barly-cornes A Graine weights a Barly-corne. A Scrupull is 20 Graines. Obolus is 10 graines. A Dram is 13 Obolui...

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Orange Beauty' in full bloom at the Witt Winter Garden. * The witch-hazels are out again, spreading th...

* The weather gods of the Pacific Northwest are showing off all their muscles. Since last Friday, they have bestowed Seattle with a...

I shall try to fix firmly in the mind of the peony lover the proper time to begin planting: it is September 15th at 9 A.M. (I do not believe...

The entrance flower bed as seen from the house towards the drive way. The round stone on the left is a pebble from the nearby beach. No,...

Helleborus argutifolius 'Pacific Frost' * It is a pity I didn't take photos of this variegated Corsican Helleborus , Helleborus...

* Primrose, auricula, polyanthus... don't ask me about the differences between these little spring bloomers, as I'm not sure how the...

Trillium gradiflorum 'Floro plenum' in full bloom in my garden. Every nodding flower is like a perfect miniature camellia - or not q...

Hollywood, California: Philip Ilsley estate, Hepatica-leaf pool. While doing research for an article about free-form pools, I found this am...

The Desert Garden at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino , California. Picture from Wikimedia , I'm visiting this...

A housewife discussing with her servant; flourishing plants form a suitable background depicting a happy household... ' Husmoderns rådg...