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

Black Sun by Isamu Noguchi (1969). I've always loved Isamu Noguchi's designs - both furniture, sculpture and gardens. In front of t...

For fast acting relief; try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin (picture taken by me at Chelsea Flower Show 2007)

The Volunteer Park Conservatory * Sometimes your GPS leads you to places you did not really think of visiting - at least just then. These mi...

This entrance makes definately a statement, and the garden behind is full of interesting, huge, modern sculptures. Nothing for the cottage-...

Yesterday I visited the Washington Park Arboretum , a huge urban green space on the shores of Lake Washington just east of downtown Seattle....

For those interested in garden design: A garden without trees scarcely deserves to be called a garden. - Henry Ellacombe For those thinking...

We have been melting away here i Seattle the last couple of days. The temperature has been over 90 degrees F/ 33 degrees C. Which has remind...

There are countless definitions of weeds. Farmers might have their own definition - a weed is any plant that interferes with profit, maybe?...

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