The spindle tree, Euonymus alata, in my frontyard; I love how the colours shift from the brightest crimson to the deepest burgundy in one...

Gentiana asclepiadea, the Willow gentian, is still sending out some flowers, now much bluer than the skies... No frost yet, but the ra...

A tap on my own back again; my second article was just published in the Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, which I am very happy about....

Tulip bulbs ready to go to bed. This heap is only for the camera, I thought they looked so delicious... in reality I left much more spac...

Exotic looking with its red petals tinged with dark maroon and edged with green and cream, the parrot flower comes from the hot and humid sa...

Quick-silver on Ginko biloba leaves Didn't someone say that if you can't beat them, join them? So foolish. I've never tho...

  Named after one of the great figures of German botany, Leonhart Fuchs (1501-66), there's nothing foxy with the delicate flowers of Fuc...

One of the five, old cyclamen tubers I got from Marian. They all were over 20 cm/ 8 inches in diameter and almost 10 cm/4 inches high, wi...

These white marble Guardians by Italian sculptor Stefano Beccari stand in the park of Nolhaga Slott  in Alingsås, Sweden. Like full-lengt...

Pehr Kalm's Sipsalo, the farm where he cultivated seeds from his botanical voyage as a disciple of Carl Linnaeus to North America in ...