The living roof of California Academy of Sciences, photographed by me last August. * Last weekend I got my garden design kick as the energ...

The snowy white Camellia japonica 'Nuccio's Gem' is flowering now in my garden. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ...

A sculpture of Hermes/Mercury in the Outer Peristyle garden. Another extravagant place from California... A sister museum to the Getty C...

The glaucous Euphorbias are in full bloom, opening their lime-coloured and honey-scented flowers to the bees and the sun. To me, the great...

More Californian, hazy blue skies... Another amazing place I visited the previous week was the Getty Center , an enormous art center sit...

Hollywood, California: Philip Ilsley estate, Hepatica-leaf pool. While doing research for an article about free-form pools, I found this am...

Yucca brevifolias , like rambling, shaggy sculptures in one of the Plant Communities areas at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. Winter ...

The rectilinear forms follow through all parts of the Freeway Park in Seattle; the pathways, water features, planter boxes are all made of ...

Fergus Garrett, the Head Gardener of Great Dixter , changing the bedding plants in the huge borders. East Sussex, England, 2006. * Ye...

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