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...

It is only my first winter in Seattle, but I already disagree with all reports of a rainy and dull place that would better be avoided. Inste...

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. - Alice Morse Earle, 1897 - K Sometimes I wonder if our gardens ...

K K Yesterday, I was thrilled to notice that Ulf Nordfjell, one of the most celebrated Swedish Landscape Architects, is giving two seminars ...

Houseboats are something I usually connect with Amsterdam, but they actually are a distinctive part of Seattle too. Some of us might remembe...

Book about The Botanical Garden of Visby by Ila. Just as the year was fading away, a small package made its way from Turku in Finland to Se...

K K For some time, I've been fascinated by Arbutus (also called Madrone), Arbutus menziesii , a native plant to the Pacific Northwest an...

K In 1902, a holly farm was established in Yarrow Point, a narrow peninsula north of Bellevue on the East side of Lake Washington. At some ...

An update: On January 2, 2013, Seattle’s Gas Works Park, a significant example of Richard Haag’s innovative landscape architecture, was...

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb -