I recently travelled to the second largest flower and garden show in the US, in Seattle, to give two presentations. Here’s what I enjoyed most—a subjective collection, to be sure, and one dependent on the capabilities of my iPhone’s camera. Even so, 25 photos is more than double the number I usually show in a[...]
Here is Part 2 of Snowdrops In The Hidden City Garden from Dutch garden designer Harry Pierik. To read Part 1, click here. “In the previous post I showed how I prepared the borders of the snowdrops. Now we’re going to look at how the snowdrops grow in the Hidden City Garden. Also I’ll show three[...]
While most of the country has been suffering under a brutally cold winter, we in California have been waiting for winter rains. It has been brutally dry. We have not had a soaking rain for 13 months. So you gardeners can imagine the joy of our recent rains. I spent each day this past weekend[...]
Prickly pear cactus pads sometimes form hearts. I wonder what the plant is trying to tell us: “Be mine but don’t touch me?”
In a society that feels more isolated and lost than ever before, we relentlessly continue to stuff ourselves with junk food – materialism. Hoping that buying things will make us happy. They never do. Give A Flower, Get A Smile Think about how different our world would be if more of us focused on the[...]