Villa Mairea in Noormarkku in southwestern Finland - one of Alvar and Aino Aalto's most well-known and celebrated designs, built in t...

More Californian, hazy blue skies... Another amazing place I visited the previous week was the Getty Center , an enormous art center sit...

If I would have to choose the most beautiful garden book in my library, Gunnar Martinsson's En bok om trädgårdar (A book about garde...

Oenotheras and Echinaceas, in Mien Ruys book Het vaste planten boek. K Mien Ruys is one of the names within garden design that has always ca...

K Last week, I was lucky to listen to two terrific talks: on Tuesday, I attended a charitable lunch with a talk by writer Isabel Allende, a...

A family building a stone wall in their garden in Lillängen in Sweden in the 1940's. Courtesy of Lokalarkiv for Nacka kommun. It is diff...

A fenceless front garden from early 20th century in Yarrow Point, near Seattle. I have always considered the fenceless and open front garde...

Thomas Church: El Novillero in Sonoma, California, pool with Adaline Kent's sculpture. K While reading the newest addition to my already...

Meadow gardening in Sweden in the 1930s. Picture by Sven A. Hermelin, published in Hem i Sverige 1935. Meadow gardening has really taken of...

Just some nostalgic thoughts as I'm now separated from my garden in Saltsjöbaden (abstinence symptoms?). Our house was built in 1935. Th...