Flowering Pacific native dogwood, Cornus nuttallii K I am too excited to concentrate on writing; I just "got" a garden and we ar...

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal' K I know very well that it is torture to go to a good nursery without having a garden to plant anything i...

Prunus 'Accolade' K The first, early varieties of cherries have almost finished their blooming. In the evening sun, some flowers w...

" Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Europe, North America and Asia and two s...

K Euphorbias are now in full bloom, showing off their large trusses of chartreuse flowers inside the similarly coloured bracts, containing g...

The view over Times Square from our hotel room... K We had a quick but intensive long weekend in New York during the Easter break; everyone...

K I'm heading off for a little spring holiday with my family. Really, I would be as happy staying here, lying under a tree looking at i...

Isn't it amazing to see how a residential area changes in just one hundred years? The black and white picture is from 1913, showing the...

And who did say that pink and yellow don't go together? The cherries are in full bloom, and it is pure bliss to my eyes... K

K "I think that a planting near the house or round the terrace should be bold and, for want of a better word, sophisticated: so I usu...