On Tuesday, my older daughter's school class had field trip to Bellevue Botanical gardens. I volunteered to help, and took the opportuni...

Yesterday, I had a wonderful morning at the Olympic Sculpture Park on the shores of Elliott Bay in Seattle city centre. It is an impressive...

Yesterday evening, Landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson delivered a very interesting and inspirational lecture at the University of Washin...

A Japanese inspired garden with evergreens. I love the little opening in the hedge, which shows the lake below but hides the house behind....

In my nostrils still live the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. - Mark Twain - ... or more than twenty; I just thought a...

What a beautiful autumn we are living through here in Seattle. It seems that the weather wants to make up for the miserable August... The sk...

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...

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)