"It's a lot of bamboo..." - I met this little fairy in the Garden of Cultivation, my favorite of all the gardens I saw in S...

It's been a busy week. I've ben working on an article with a deadline on October 12th, about Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca that...

Water garden at the entrance to the HortPark in Singapore. Over 600 000 visitors come here to learn about gardening and to see what over ...

The mouth of the dragon; this is the fire-box and it has an altar on the top. Before every firing, offerings of three kinds of living cre...

A banana bonsai (Musa sp.)- about half a meter high, and quite cute. No fruit in sight, though...  bonsais come in the genus Musa ... ...

What a lovely collar - I'm sure it adds to the protective power of this noble animal. This is the female lion, as they always ho...

Reflexology path in Singapore Botanic Gardens. I love how the parks and gardens of Singapore are not only meant to be looked at, but...

Just need to show this little detail from the Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, the subject of my previous blog post:  Wandering throug...

The Mahavira Hall at the Lian Shan Shuang Lin monastery, with large penjing flanking the entryway and steps to the temple. Pretty muc...