When we go out into the garden to take pictures, we don’t always find what we expect. So don’t get locked into seeing what you want to see. See what is. When my friend Kate Frey suggested I might want to photograph the tapestries of winter vegetables she planted at Lynmar Winery I could hardly[...]
Normally I would Tweet or link to this article on Facebook. Perhaps you’ve already read about this on another garden blog. In case you didn’t though, this is BIG news. Please pass on to your friends and colleagues……Fran Sorin Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American[...]
Heirloom vegetables and flowers (or as well call them over here – heritage) have been big for some time now. Much more so in North America than home. In fact I am always really surprised about how enthusiastic American gardeners are about ‘vegetables our grandmothers grew’. The love of heirloom veg however goes along with[...]
Note from Fran: We’re thrilled to welcome a new Guest Contributor to GGW, Chris Woods. Over the course of his twenty year tenure at Chanticleer, Chris transformed what was one a private estate garden into an exuberant, knock your socks off public pleasure garden. After stints as Executive Director of Mendicino Coast Botanical Garden, Van Dusen Botanical Garden, Ojai[...]
There is still time to send in your photos for this months contest. The theme is Abundant Harvest which we kicked off with a smorgasbord of photos, all of which are interpretations of the theme. Rules and prizes in the October 5 post. I should remind our readers that the photos do not have to[...]