“Public Gardens” includes public spaces, corporate spaces – anything but home gardens.
I've been visiting the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Rosemoor in Devon, UK, for 20 years or more now. Over that time I've seen many changes, some grand and some [...]
Minnie Aumonier, a sentimental poet from the distant past, once wrote: “When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there’s always the garden." Yes, it’s a bit treacly and [...]
Photo credit: Visit Palm Springs. During my too-short visit to Palm Springs, Calif. last month I naturally hoped to visit a botanic garden and yes, there is one! [...]
I haven't finished unpacking from my trip to California this week, but it's my day to post so here's a quick look at the eye-popping garden at Sunnylands. The estate [...]
When you hear about pollinators, and I'm happy to see lots of attention now being paid to their predicament, I bet you don't think of geckos, like this plant-based sculpture [...]
If you recall my rant about the utterly sterile, sad graveyard I noticed in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in this post I'm raving about the exact opposite cemetery. Its founder envisioned [...]
During a recent trip to New York, one blessed with - seemingly - the last glorious fall day of the year, we made our usual pilgrimage to the High Line. [...]
We visited Highgrove so you don’t have to. An American tour guide once told me that Americans always want to visit The Laskett and Highgrove, so she takes them there [...]
What does a great September garden look like? I received multiple, resoundingly convincing answers to that question last weekend. You might call them definitive. The annual garden bloggers/grammers/tubers get-together was [...]
I passed a gentleman sat with his wife. “There's not much colour” he remarked to her. I looked up, I looked one way and the other, I looked down. Colour [...]
I was at my desk when I received a message from someone I haven't heard from in years. We'd dated for a while at secondary school, or as it's known [...]
