* Primrose, auricula, polyanthus... don't ask me about the differences between these little spring bloomers, as I'm not sure how the...

* We don't express nature, we express our relations to nature. The fact of creating is the expression of nature. -Adaline Kent (1900-19...

Trillium gradiflorum 'Floro plenum' in full bloom in my garden. Every nodding flower is like a perfect miniature camellia - or not q...

The road to the Hoh Rainforest winds through the wet, moss-coated forests, giving a inkling of the wilder things to come... A never-ending ...

The lemony white Erythronium citrinum , citrus or cream fawn lily, is native to Oregon and northwest California. * I've been sneaking ...

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...