In compiling this second batch of photos of arbors in my garden, I was struck by the realization that I am addicted to arbors. I don’t know precisely when this addiction began but my hunch is that it started taking shape on my first visit to Rosemary Verey’s Barnsley House, with its long laburnum arbor [...]
It has been 3 weeks since I posted to my blog. I have the blog blahs. Thank goodness I am not a professional writer who must write, inspired or not. Or maybe if I were a professional writer it would be easier to get into the habit of writing something so simple and unconditional as [...]
On this day of remembrance for an extraordinary historical figure, I came upon Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco which houses a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The exquisite use of water in this memorial is a powerful reminder of Martin Luther King’s eternal legacy as well as the power, beauty and eloquence of one [...]
The recent abundance of posts about seed catalogs, along with the overabundance of catalogs in my own mailbox, has gotten me seriously thinking about my own orders for the upcoming season. I love trying new plants each year, of course, but as I’m sure many of you do, I also have some old favorites that [...]
As I’ve often heard it said: ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. My eye has always been and continues to be drawn to dead blooms in the late fall and winter garden as seen below. My frequent visits to Israel allow me to semi-legitimately expand my plant palette when writing about ‘What’s In Bloom’. Without extolling ad nauseum the [...]