The meadow project; Daniel and Michael are "plugging" in areas of planted vegetation between the wild grasses, hoping them to be s...

Poppy mallow, Callirhoe involucrata , is in full bloom at the Alpine Rock Garden in Bellevue Botanical Garden. This lovely carmine pink, t...

Decayed literature makes the best soil - Henry David Thoreau - K Having been a voracious reader my whole life, my mental compost should by n...

A copy of the 16th century statue of Mercury (Hermes) by Giambologna, looking at the sea over the cliffs of Källskär. K I sometime...

Two Polish chicken picking around the garden. K Last Thursday, I had the luck to be invited by Marian to join a group of Washington Arbore...

What is a garden but a species of desire? Such a short sentence, containing the true essence of gardening... I love how it leaves everything...

Magnolia wilsonii is almost past flowering in Marian's garden; its nodding flowers still hold to their pure white petals, showing off ...

Pink is quite a dividing colour in garden. Maybe not as much as yellow and orange, but still one of the colours people often do not like to...

Stewartia pseudocamellia buds, like little peas waiting for June and July to come to show off their pure white contents. K No, this time I ...

Things are definitely moving in the right direction... Just look what I found in one of the boxes; my favourite garden trowel, from my house...