Orangery, a sculpture by Erwin Heerich, 1983. * Wandering through the grounds of Museum Insel Hombroich is a strangely quiet but yet strong...

Unidentified garden by Edward van Altena. Florida, 1930. * If you feel like a bit of armchair travel in history and time, see the breathtak...

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena' in full bloom, its sweet scent carrying through the endless drops of rain. K Words are things, and...

The Desert Garden at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino , California. Picture from Wikimedia , I'm visiting this...

A housewife discussing with her servant; flourishing plants form a suitable background depicting a happy household... ' Husmoderns rådg...

The first snowdrops of this spring are already out I think I should confess it: I am an incurable galanthophile , even if my collection st...

If I would have to choose the most beautiful garden book in my library, Gunnar Martinsson's En bok om trädgårdar (A book about garde...

An old, unidentified Camellia sasanqua variety flowering in my garden. For the moment, Washington state seems to be one of the few places...

And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke - I hope you all have a lovely, peaceful C...

Only tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly. - Elmer Diktonius - K I loved this Diktonius quote while I grew up in Finland. It seemed...