Blushing petals of Yoshino-cherries, Prunus x yedoensis, opening up towards the sun peeking out between the leaden clouds. At noon to...

Early Magnolias, like 'Leonard Messel' above, are now in full bloom in Seattle. * I'm completely distracted. I'm trying to w...

The Reflective Garden with its magnificent dark pool filled with natural groundwater. It was built in 1970 with some advice from Landscape A...

A seaside meadow, technically really a pasture, by the seashore in Victoria, Australia. * I've had a long lasting love affair with mead...

Sipsalo in late November 2009. * Today, March 7th, an international appeal signed by some leading researchers, garden historians and writers...

My Japanese weeping maple... * One of my Azaleas... * My flowering Japanese cherry... * My Stewartia pseudocamellia... * My witch-hazel...

The windswept 'Knowing the Spring' courtyard. * * Newest of Seattle's many public gardens, the Seattle Chinese Garden was open...

Today, it is the first of March and officially the first day of spring. I can't think of a better day for Karin Boye's poem Yes, of ...

A painting with Sedums and Echeverias at Ravenna Gardens display; nothing new, but still completely charming! * I do understand that fixing...

The kitchen garden at Pukkila , or Buckila Manor, with horseradish and cardoons growing in front of old fruit trees. * While browsing thro...