Generated by All in One SEO Pro v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # A Traveling Gardener Wandering, Wondering, Noticing. . . . ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://travelinggardener.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Magical, Marvelous Villa d'Este, Tivoli, Italy](https://travelinggardener.com/magical-marvelous-villa-deste-tivoli-italy/) - In the mid-16th century, revenge drove Cardinal Ippolito to build a garden villa in Tivoli to rival Rome's beauty, consuming his life and fortune. - [Guernica, an oak tree and a flower](https://travelinggardener.com/guernica-an-oak-tree-and-a-flower/) - Across the centuries the Basque people live with quiet autonomy, Guernica changed all of this. - [Shores of Lake Maggiore, View From Villa Aminta](https://travelinggardener.com/shores-of-lake-maggiore-from-villa-aminta/) - My fantasy is to return each September to the shores of Lake Maggiore and Villa Aminta - [Spring Fever in My Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-fever-in-my-garden/) - Spring in my Arizona Garden - [Coffee?](https://travelinggardener.com/coffee/) - One of the great adventures of international travel is ordering coffee; you just don't know what you might get. Americano may be the closest to what we are familiar with, but asking for just coffee, who knows? On a small-group tour in Rome with a local guide, we were walking through a large shopping - [People need Parks and Gardens and the Parks and Gardens need care.](https://travelinggardener.com/people-need-parks-and-gardens-and-the-parks-and-gardens-need-care/) - All people need gardens and parks, places to play and places to rest - [One step at a time into the new year](https://travelinggardener.com/one-step-at-a-time-into-the-new-year/) - As we step into a new year, our own movement forward resembles the act of climbing stairs. Progress rarely happens all at once. - [In Latvian, Laipni lugti "You are Welcome"](https://travelinggardener.com/in-latvian-laipni-lugti-you-are-welcome/) - The more I explore, the more convinced I am that gardeners everywhere want to share their magical moments with nature. I want to start with gardens in Riga, Latvia. This tiny country borders Russia and is north of Ukraine. - [Summer Color from Rich’s Workshop](https://travelinggardener.com/summer-color-from-richs-workshop/) - The day began with the promise of an early morning storm; no rain, but a cool breeze and an overcast sky made it so wonderful to be outside this July morning. There were clouds in the sky, heavy clumps of gray at varying levels and in shades from light to dark. We have only a few - [Spring In My Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-in-my-garden/) - It feels good, the first day of spring. It’s ready, my garden, for some dinner parties, some visits by friends, a glass of wine w/ Rich at the end of the day. - [Looking Up in Madrid & Portugal](https://travelinggardener.com/looking-up-in-madrid-portugal/) - It's early fall in Spain & Portugal, the grape leaves are beginning to turn stripey red, the flowers are past their prime, but everywhere I look, something ... - [An Artist's Legacy Creates Art in A Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/an-artists-legacy-creates-art-in-a-garden/) - The most beautiful garden space I experienced during my recent travels was in West Dean Gardens, on the Isle of Wight. - [Travel Moments in Summer Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/travel-moments-in-summer-gardens/) - Summer gardens , I was distracted on the Damme sculpture park walk as I found storks nesting in all the chimneys surrounding the park. - [Kudzu Baskets](https://travelinggardener.com/kudzu-baskets/) - Badhi and many of his fellow countrymen who immigrated from Bhutan saw kudzu as useful, as a way to create something useful and beautiful. He creates baskets - [Low Rider Roses](https://travelinggardener.com/low-rider-roses/) - Imagine my delight when I walked into the Peterson Automotive Museum in downtown LA and discovered 100 roses painted on the Gypsy Rose. - [The Place, The House & The Gardener](https://travelinggardener.com/the-place-the-house-the-gardener/) - Designed for entertaining, six houses became one, The Jim Thompson Garden - [A Traveling Gardener, Linda Larson](https://travelinggardener.com/feature-article/) - Linda Larson is a regular contributor for Roots & Shoots, writing for the monthly column, “Traveling Gardener.” The articles reflect her passion for combining two of her favorite pastimes – travel and gardening. - [Flowers Have Powers](https://travelinggardener.com/flowers-have-powers/) - Fresh flowers are on public display in Bangkok, and experiencing this reverence, respect, and power of flowers was a highlight of my trip to Bangkok, Thailand. - [Turtle Island--Wisdom for All](https://travelinggardener.com/turtle-island/) - Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, and it is used by some American Indigenous peoples - [Seeking Peace-- International Peace Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/seeking-peace-international-peace-garden/) - The idea of an International Peace Garden originated with Dr. Henry Moore in 1928. - [Welcoming the New Year in a Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/welcoming-the-new-year-in-a-garden/) - In the season of fresh starts, though we are gardeners, let's allow time to put down our spade and clippers and stroll through a garden. - [Singapore’s Gardens By the Bay](https://travelinggardener.com/singapores-gardens-by-the-bay/) - Gardens By the Bay in Singapore opened in 2012, and over 50 million visitors have explored the gardens since then. This year, I was one of them! - [A Flower Pot Connection](https://travelinggardener.com/a-flower-pot-connection/) - I have 142 flower pots in my garden, several were made in Vietnam. I purchased them at my local nursery, less than 3 miles from my garden. I've just returned from traveling in Asia, and one of the places I visited was Vietnam. My awareness of Vietnam began in the late 60s. I had a - [Kenji's Garden, Kyoto](https://travelinggardener.com/kenjis-garden-kyoto/) - When the gates opened, my heart stopped. I stood looking at the most incredible gardens I have ever seen. The creative work of one man for over 60 years. It is truly magnificent - [Walk with me in Vancouver, BC, Canada](https://travelinggardener.com/walk-with-me-in-vancouver-bc-canada/) - The last week of July, it was 116 degrees (47 Celcius) in my Arizona garden. Luckily, I escaped to Vancouver, Canada, for a few days to enjoy pleasant summer days and temperatures in the low 80s (26 ). I was lucky indeed as I walked the incredibly pedestrian-friendly downtown Vancouver, admiring the remarkable architecture, thriving - [A Natural Palate](https://travelinggardener.com/a-natural-palate/) - As a desert dweller, I assumed there were no more beautiful cactus gardens than exist here in the Sonoran desert. That idea was turned upside down on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. - [Virginia's Historic House & Garden Tour](https://travelinggardener.com/virginias-historic-house-garden-tour/) - Virginia is a green paradise filled with architecture, trees, rivers, coastline, and gardens. A stroll in Virginia is to travel through our country’s history. - [Ohinetahi, Garden, House & Art](https://travelinggardener.com/ohinetahi-garden-house-art/) - If you go to New Zealand, to Christchurch on the South Island, go see the Ohinetahi garden. - [The Giant's House, Akaroa, NZS](https://travelinggardener.com/the-giants-house-akaroa-nzs/) - The mosaics dominate but the plants beautify the art. - [Never skip the Children’s Garden!](https://travelinggardener.com/never-skip-the-childrens-garden/) - I discovered one very definite tip for visiting gardens, “Don’t skip the children’s garden!” - [A Flower in Buenos Aires](https://travelinggardener.com/a-flower-in-buenos-aires/) - to see the Floralis Generica, up close and from all angles. On our last night in Buenos Aires we went back once again to see it lit with deep pink light. - [Surprise! Splash! Spray! Water Jokes For All!](https://travelinggardener.com/surprise-splash-spray/) - Hellbrunn Palace is a Renaissance villa in Salzburg, Austria's outskirts. It was built between 1612 and 1615 by Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Today the palace grounds cover approximately 148 acres (60 hectares) with alles of trees, beds of roses, swirling baroque-style flower beds, and small lakes. Walking through the gardens on - [Drama of Drummond Castle Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/drama-of-drummond-castle-gardens/) - Scotland was once a country of 3000 castles; today, 1100 remain. North and a "wee bit" west of Edinburgh is Drummond Castle. - [Broadwoodside, a new garden in an old place](https://travelinggardener.com/broadwoodside-garden/) - Robert Dalrymple +Broadwoodside+In a land of historic castle gardens, the contemporary Broadwoodside garden offers color, whimsy, and a story all its own. - [Holiday Lights Magical Brookgreen Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/holiday-lights-magical-brookgreen-gardens/) - Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet (near Myrtle Beach), South Carolina, celebrates the holidays with Nights of a Thousand Candles. - [Resolute, gardening in the new year](https://travelinggardener.com/resolute-gardening-in-the-new-year/) - Returning home at 2:30 am from a two-week travel trip, I first went into the garden to see what I could see. I always miss my garden, and though I have it arranged to stay in good care when I travel, I am always eager to see what may have changed. Traveling reminds me If - [Dunbar's Close, Edinburgh, Scotland](https://travelinggardener.com/dunbars-close-edinburgh-scotland/) - slip into the Dunbar’s Close Garden. and this courtyard garden is a haven of calm, quiet, and refreshing green. - [Hedges with Messages](https://travelinggardener.com/hedges-with-messages/) - A proper green and sturdy hedge sets a boundary, saying, “Stay on your side.” - [Portmore Gardens, A Scottish Delight](https://travelinggardener.com/portmore-gardens-a-scottish-delight/) - There are many gardens where I may return & find it predictably excellent, but this visit to Portmore was ephemeral; it will never be like this again. Magical - [Rainy Day at London's Chelsea Flower Show](https://travelinggardener.com/rainy-day-at-londons-chelsea-flower-show/) - The English seem to be absolutely mad about gardening, which is a good thing. After visiting The Chelsea Flower Show, I agree that it is the world's most famous flower exhibition. - [Emerald Green Ireland](https://travelinggardener.com/emerald-green-ireland/) - Ireland is an Emerald Isle. I have proof! Powerscourt Garden should be on your travel list. - [Spring Gardens in the Southwest](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-gardens-in-the-southwest/) - It has been a spectacular spring to visit gardens, and I didn't pack a suitcase. - [A Great Place for a Party](https://travelinggardener.com/a-great-place-for-a-party/) - Gardening, by its very nature, is about putting down roots. So when we moved into our home in 1977, we had bare ground outside and white walls inside. - [Floriade 2022, Horticulture Celebration,The Netherlands](https://travelinggardener.com/floriade-almere-the-netherlands/) - Once a decade, the Netherlands Horticulture Council organizes an exposition celebrating and highlighting horticulture's contribution to life. The event is a World's Fair of horticultural products, innovations in food production, and the beauty of plants in all forms. Participants from around the world showcase their garden style and their premium exports from their part of the - [Let's Celebrate! Fredrick Olmstead made everything better](https://travelinggardener.com/lets-celebrate/) - Let’s Celebrate! Here’s something worth celebrating, and it’s not National Walk to Work Day (April 1) or Lima Bean Respect Day (April 20). Instead, it’s a yearlong celebration of the first American Landscape Architect, Frederick Law Olmstead. Celebrations begin April 26 and continue throughout the year to celebrate Olmsted’s 200th Birthday. Olmsted is recognized as - [Tulip Fever, Can you pick just one?](https://travelinggardener.com/tulip-fever/) - May is Tulip Festival time in Holland, MI, and I was there - [Flowers for Sale To the World](https://travelinggardener.com/flowers-for-sale/) - Europe - [Finding a Pathway Through The Plants](https://travelinggardener.com/pathway-through-the-plants/) - Finding Direction in Uncertain Times: Exploring the Beauty of Garden Mazes and Labyrinths - [Garden Travels, the best view of our world](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-travels/) - I've just returned from a three-week trip exploring Scottish Gardens. My husband and I rented a car at the Aberdeen Airport and set off for our adventure. Rich did all the 852 miles of driving with a right-hand drive and a left-hand 6-speed shifter. Our GPS guide was the calm and reassuring voice of the - [Fyvie Castle, a garden of color](https://travelinggardener.com/fyvie-castle-gardens/) - Explore the Stunning Gardens of Fyvie Castle in Scotland - A Delightful Combination of Flowers, Fruits, and Fascinating Stories - [Trees A Visual Guide](https://travelinggardener.com/trees-a-visual-guide/) - Bookshelf space is precious ground for gardeners so I choose my volumes carefully. Trees, is a reference book supremely worth the full inch it requires! Every photograph is worth framing and clearly connected to the interesting and informative text provided alongside. The book is divided into sections including: Form & Function, Diversity and Design, Communities - [Garden of Hearts](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-hearts/) - The Van Buuren Museum and Gardens in Brussels, Belgium was once the private home of David & Alice Van Buuren, two creative spirits sharing a life of art, music, - [Topiary Park, Columbus, Ohio](https://travelinggardener.com/topiary-park-columbus-ohio/) - James T Mason chose to recreate George Seurat’s pointillism masterpiece to create Topiary Park in Columbus, Ohio - [Celebrating Flowers](https://travelinggardener.com/celebrating-flowers/) - When it is Spring, it is best to believe in something,"* and I believe in celebrating flowers. I am not alone in this belief. Around the world, flower festivals, home garden tours, - [Creativity in the Heat](https://travelinggardener.com/creativity-in-the-heat/) - When your garden is located in a climate of 30 days of temperatures at or over 110 degrees, it's tough to want to do any creative gardening. I wander about with my watering can most mornings when it's only 89 degrees. Yes, it's a dry heat, and I mostly appreciate that, but it isn't pleasant. - [Flowers in the Tetons, Wyoming](https://travelinggardener.com/flowers-in-the-tetons-wyoming/) - The majestic mountains are so big, the sky so wide and the view in every direction is spectacular. Exploring the Grand Tetons is an experience of grand proportions. It is easy to miss the wildflowers surviving in this dry climate under a bright summer sun. Yet the flowers are there, in yellow, purple, red and white. - [Last Summer's Magic in Gardens of Versailles](https://travelinggardener.com/last-summers-magic-in-gardens-of-versailles/) - "a garden's capacity for inspiring romance should be a criterion for evaluation in terms of horticultural excellence." - [Resting Places](https://travelinggardener.com/resting-places/) - There will always be work to do in a garden, but why create a bit of heaven on earth if we don’t occasionally sit and feast our eyes on the beauty right in front of us? We live in a time of doing: counting our steps, our calories, our likes, and our success. Richard Eyre’s - [Windows – an Overlooked Miracle](https://travelinggardener.com/windows-an-overlooked-miracle/) - if we are lucky enough to have our little patch of earth which surrounds the place we call home, look out your window with hope. - [Memorable Moments 2018](https://travelinggardener.com/memorable-moments-2018/) - We traveled for eleven weeks this year and visited 90 new gardens. I genuinely believe the best view of our world is through a garden. - [100 years of Gardening, Kiftsgate Courts Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/100-years-of-gardening-kiftsgate-courts-garden/) - Each of these women gardeners over the past 100 years has added their special touches to the garden. - [Pottery in the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/pottery-in-the-garden/) - Water is essential for life; on two different occasions, once in May the other in August, I’ve found in my garden two perfectly formed tiny mud pots. These were made by a 1/2” long Microdynerus arenicolus, or the Antioch Potter Wasp. A potter’s wasp will lay its eggs inside. The female wasp gets a MOUTHFUL I’ve found in my garden two perfectly formed tiny mud pots. - [Noticing Trees](https://travelinggardener.com/noticing-trees/) - I’m sitting in a tree house at a friend’s cabin along the Gallatin River near Yellowstone Park in Montana - [A Seat in the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/a-seat-in-the-garden/) - Gardeners love mornings, especially Arizona gardeners. Early morning is an inviting time to be among the blooms, buds and shrubs, - [Garden Residents](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-residents/) - Wandering down a garden path can bring you eye to eye with a rabbit, a quail, a squirrel, a deer, all animal residents going about the business of their day. - [Night in a garden](https://travelinggardener.com/night-in-a-garden/) - As a kid I was afraid of the dark. Many a summer night when I forgot to put away my bicycle or toy wagon I was told to “Go outside and put away my things!” - [College Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/college-gardens/) - The spring semester has ended and the last notes of pomp and circumstance have faded away on college and university campuses. . .acres of college and university gardens - [Art in the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/art-in-the-garden/) - I love a bit of art in my garden and public gardens like art too! - [Hidden Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/hidden-gardens/) - Driving from Big Sky into Bozeman one early morning - [Armchair Traveling](https://travelinggardener.com/armchair-traveling/) - Travel planning maybe all about suffering the web these days but before one does the details you may need inspiration for where you want to travel. - [Peace Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/peace-gardens/) - The International Peace Garden spans Canada and the United States celebrating the longest unfortified border in the world - [Fantasy Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/fantasy-gardens/) - George Washington Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina is the ultimate fantasy garden complete with an enormous castle! - [The Best Season](https://travelinggardener.com/the-best-season/) - Traveling doesn’t always bring us to a garden on the day of perfection, yet what is perfection but a dangerous myth that can reduce our joy - [Resolutions of the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/resolutions-of-the-garden/) - Now is the season of fresh starts and though we be gardeners resolve to allow some time to put down one’s spade and clippers and stroll through a garden. - [Dwarf Conifers, Chicago Botanical Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/dwarf-conifers-chicago-botanical-gardens/) - Conifers have bragging rights as the oldest living plant known. - [Container Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/container-gardens/) - As the weather began to change in my garden I eagerly set about planting my favorite colorful annuals in my containers. I do pots, boxes, hanging baskets, tubs, it is my favorite garden activity trying for the perfect container of flowers. - [National Public Garden Day](https://travelinggardener.com/national-public-garden-day/) - Our gardens, parks, and public spaces need constant care and watchfulness to provide future garden lovers a chance to enjoy these public treasures. - [Lattice Windows](https://travelinggardener.com/lattice-windows/) - The Lattice Windows in the undulating Wall of Colorful Clouds is a highlight of the Garden of Flowing Fragrances, - [Sounds of Peace](https://travelinggardener.com/sounds-of-peace/) - When birds stop singing. . . - [Spring Fever](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-fever/) - Today thousands & thousands of camellias bloom in March and April, in shades of red, pink and white. These plants are now small trees in what remains perhaps the largest camellia garden in the country. - [Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/conservatory-of-flowers-golden-gate-park-ca/) - Wandering through gardens you see pots, urns, containers, vessels all carefully positioned to create a point of interest or highlight a significant plant specimen - [The Biltmore, NC & The Biltmore, AZ](https://travelinggardener.com/the-biltmore-nc-the-biltmore-az/) - Wandering through these grounds today is to step into a fantasy garden. The Biltmore name is a combination of two words, - [Snow in Summer](https://travelinggardener.com/snow-in-summer/) - a “White Garden” filled with every type of white flower imaginable. Climbing over arbors, spilling from raised urns, lining the pathways are snow drops, snow flakes, snowball bushes, diamond frost, white roses, - [Mendocino Botanical, Ft. Bragg, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/mendocino-botanical-ft-bragg-ca/) - The dew soaks my shoes and moisture climbs up the hems of my jeans as I wander down a path in the early morning. Tiny droplets of water ring the leaves and sparkle - [A Gift of Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/a-gift-of-gardens/) - So how would one give a gift of nature? May I suggest a membership in the American Horticultural Society. This affordable gift will give your favorite people garden admission - [Filoli, Woodside, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/filoli-woodside-ca/) - “Fight for a just cause;Love your fellow man; Live a good life” forms Filoli. - [Our view of nature](https://travelinggardener.com/our-view-of-nature/) - hummingbird paradise with aloes, fairy dusters. Sitting on the winding low walls you can watch the flying jewels moving busily between the blooms. - [Garden Gates](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-gates/) - Some gates are barriers, Some are merely symbolic, The gate serves as the place to pause and consider what a visitor will find within. - [Desert Walk](https://travelinggardener.com/desert-walk/) - The value of a demonstration garden to create a greater understanding of the sense of place is so important. - [Desert Botanical Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/522/) - in the midst of cold the local garden proves fascinating, giving my visitors a sense of place much different than what they find outside their door - [Contemplating Trees](https://travelinggardener.com/contemplating-trees/) - Arboretums are an essential element of our connection to trees. As we live in tighter spaces and are exposed to fewer and fewer varieties of trees we could forget to celebrate trees. - [Gardeners Change the World](https://travelinggardener.com/gardeners-change-the-world/) - the power of passionate committed gardeners. The city’s smallest park, a small triangular shaped patch of earth bordered on all sides by intersecting streets, is now a beautiful garden. - [Presentation to RECOM](https://travelinggardener.com/presentation-to-recom/) - Speaker--Linda Larson at March 16 meeting Linda Larson, a lifelong lover of flowers, remembers the daffodils lining the small stone path to her grandmother’s door. She grew up on a farm in central Indiana and not only pulled weeds out of the Peonies each summer, but the nightshade out of her father’s soybean fields. After - [Southwest Morning Wake-up Call](https://travelinggardener.com/525/) - I am a happy mockingbird, mockingbird, mockingbird. - [Lilacs in Southern California](https://travelinggardener.com/lilacs-in-southern-california/) - The lilacs are blooming in Descanso Gardens in La Canada-Flintridge CA. The beauty of these delicate blooms is compounded by their varieties of color in lilac lavender, deep purple, pink, and white. - [Garden of Fragrance](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-fragrance/) - In a small conservatory built of red brick with huge copper framed windows and an interior graced with a pair of white doves in an ornate wire cage, pots of fragrant white lilies perfumed the air. - [Counting Plants](https://travelinggardener.com/counting-plants/) - Winding uphill through the streets of Berkeley, we arrive at the Berkeley, Botanical Garden in Strawberry Canyon. There we are faced with a decision - [Barbara’s Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/barbaras-garden/) - Public gardens are a wonderful place to visit but now and then you have the opportunity to see a beautiful private garden. Barbara invited me out to see her hollyhocks in full glory. Beautiful shades of pink and white were indeed glorious and scattered around her acre of Eden in the East Valley. A transplanted “Alabama - [Mom’s Iris](https://travelinggardener.com/mom-iris/) - My Mother has always gardened and she has gardened in the same spot in Indiana soil for over 60 years. The garden surrounds the home she made with my Father when they moved in as newlyweds down the road from my Grandparents. Growing flowers was always secondary to farming efforts. That continues today as my - [San Diego Botanic Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/san-diego-botanic-gardens/) - The San Diego Botanic garden holds a special place in my gardening heart. What doesn’t grow wonderfully here? This trip was a misty day with lots of moisture in the garden. - [Self-Realization Fellowship, The Lake Shrine](https://travelinggardener.com/self-realization-fellowship-the-lake-shrine/) - If garden delight is what you seek, wander in and away from the hub of traffic and stroll these beautiful grounds. - [Merton Fig Tree, Santa Barbara, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/merton-fig-tree-santa-barbara-ca/) - I have always loved trees. Seriously felt a special affinity toward them. There was a huge black walnut tree in the field east of my childhood home. - [Lotusland, Santa Barbara, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/lotusland-santa-barbara-ca/) - Gardening with a passion from the early 40s to the 1980’s Madam Ganna Walska found something she liked, a shrub, a tree, a type of glass and then she used alot of it. When you have 37 acres to garden this style works - [Sierra Azul Garden, Watsonville, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/sierra-azul-garden-watsonville-ca/) - Wonderful nursery with a great variety of plants, helpful advice, and information. and an art gallery every year from May 31 thru Oct. showcasing art for the garden. - [Plant People](https://travelinggardener.com/plant-people/) - A beautiful garden is always in transition and plant sculpture vividly demonstrates this. Working on steel forms covered with sphagnum moss, succulent starts are pushed into the frame to take root and grow to cover the entire structure. - [Is This A Garden?](https://travelinggardener.com/is-this-a-garden/) - What is a garden? A word so familiar yet open to so many variations. Defining a garden as a plot of land around a house used for growing flowers, vegetables and fruits seems adequate and yet a garden can be none of these and still be called a garden. - [San Jose Municipal Rose Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/san-jose-municipal-rose-garden/) - I realize the US Constitution does not promise her citizens a rose garden but it is lovely when citizens and elected officials figure out a way to provide one anyway. - [Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/hakone-gardens-saratoga-ca/) - Some experiences change the direction of our lives. Such is the origin of this authentic Japanese garden built by Oliver and Isabel Stine. - [Los Gatos, CA, The blooming town square](https://travelinggardener.com/los-gatos-ca-the-blooming-town-square/) - A town square has long been a fixture in this country. A small open green space surrounded by the shops and offices needed for the community to function. - [University of CA, Santa Cruz Arboretum](https://travelinggardener.com/university-of-ca-santa-cruz-arboretum/) - I almost stepped on this snake today. Yes, I was leading off down the trail and just walked into a shady patch. There Mr. Snake was resting, all stretched out. - [Too hot to garden?](https://travelinggardener.com/too-hot-to-garden/) - As the summer heat wears on I wonder if I might feel cooler thinking of places that are hotter and drier than where I am. So Death Valley National Park - [Inspiring words](https://travelinggardener.com/inspiring-words/) - Presentations made include: Weeders Garden Club Dobson Women’s Club Tempe Garden Club Ahwatukee Garden RECOM City of Mesa Kingman Garden Club Osher Lifelong Learning, Indiana State U. Prescott: Alta Vista Garden Club Dobson Ranch Garden Club - [Traveling](https://travelinggardener.com/traveling/) - Gardens in the late summer, early fall are full of surprises. There are gardens everywhere and I intend to find them in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx, Boston, Newport, RI, Portland, ME, St. John’s, Halifax, Quebec City, and Montreal, Canada. In New York, the Brooklyn, NY and Staten Island Botanical Gardens await. In Boston, - [Up on the roof](https://travelinggardener.com/up-on-the-roof/) - Truly one of the great treasures of this country is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - [A Winter Garden, Manhattan, NYC](https://travelinggardener.com/a-winter-garden-manhattan-nyc/) - The Winter Garden is a dozen Fan Palm trees reaching high toward a glass ceiling. Striking architecture accented by trees symbolizing a winter escape to warmer climates for the many hardworking people going to and from their offices. - [Brooklyn Heights Promenade](https://travelinggardener.com/brooklyn-heights-promenade/) - Finding green space in the City of New York is surprisingly easy. A population of 8 million people speaking 800 languages it seems they all speak garden. - [Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY](https://travelinggardener.com/brooklyn-botanic-garden-ny/) - Gardens, and those who tend them give us much to be thankful for throughout the year. - [Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/getty-villa-pacific-palisades-ca/) - Garden history rarely makes it into schoolbooks even though it tells a rich and colorful story of cultural progress. Throughout time people seek food, health, beauty, and pleasure - [The Elms](https://travelinggardener.com/the-elms/) - It is the garden that drew me here. Elm trees were a significant feature in the landscape of this city in the early 1900’s - [Marigolds on Main Street](https://travelinggardener.com/marigolds-on-main-street/) - St. John is alive with orange and yellow marigolds along the main street. Elementary school children have been planting marigold seeds in their classrooms each spring for the past 14 years - [Wentworth Park & Sydney Labor Park](https://travelinggardener.com/wentworth-park-sydney-labor-park/) - here is lush green, blue sky, white puffy clouds and lots and lots of water in this part of the world. Twin public parks include walking paths surrounding a long lake - [Montreal Botanical Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/montreal-botanical-garden/) - This is an amazing garden with its collection of 22,000 plant species and cultivars, 10 exhibition greenhouses, some thirty thematic gardens. - [Back home again in Indiana](https://travelinggardener.com/back-home-again-in-indiana/) - October in Indiana may just be the best season of the year in that part of the country. The corn and beans are ready to harvest. - [Fancy Tulips](https://travelinggardener.com/fancy-tulips/) - Winter is a long season in the middle of the country. When the limits of age restrict your range of activity to a small circle of travel, winter can be especially long. - [Boyce Thompson Arboretum](https://travelinggardener.com/boyce-thompson-arboretum/) - Fall foliage is such a spectacular show of color creating a magical glow of light under the trees. The honey locust trees are the color of gold, the Chinese Pistachio leaves turn red. - [Promenade, 91st Street, Riverside Drive](https://travelinggardener.com/promenade-91st-street-riverside-drive/) - Hearts & Flowers How does Valentine’s Day link us to gardens? The Persian poet Rumi said it perfectly in the 13th century, “My heart rushes into the garden tasting all the delights.” - [Garden of Useful Plants, Montreal Botanic Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-useful-plants-montreal-botanic-garden/) - The Garden of Useful Plants in theMontreal Botanical Garden illustrates the essence of a good life - [Rooftop Gardening](https://travelinggardener.com/rooftop-gardening/) - Where will gardening grow as more than 1/2 the world’s population moves into urban environments? (citymayors.com) Urban living is associated with greater opportunities yet one cost of city life is giving up ready access to green space and gardens. - [Desert Botanical Luminaria](https://travelinggardener.com/desert-botanical-luminaria/) - The garden was simply alive with delight, jazz, classical, folk musicians and more provided continuous entertainment. We sat by a warming flame and listened happily for some time. The garden at night is simply different than during the day. - [Late in the day](https://travelinggardener.com/late-in-the-day/) - Late in the day is a great time in a garden. The visitors are fewer, there are quite spots to sit and relax. - [Shamrock Green](https://travelinggardener.com/shamrock-green/) - In March almost everyone claims to be a little bit Irish. It might be because of the music, the dancing or the festivities but really it is all about the green. - [April Whimsy](https://travelinggardener.com/april-whimsy/) - The sweetness of April arrives bringing spring’s green leaves, sprouts, blooms, and wildlife babies. The potential for delight could hardly be greater in any other month of the year. - [Adventure 2012](https://travelinggardener.com/adventure-2012/) - We are packing for a trip to see tulips in the Netherlands, tiled courtyards in Spain, cork trees in Portugal, orchids in the Canary Islands, water gardens in Morocco, and iris in Giverny. A plan devised on new year’s eve has come together and the time for departure is near. We plan to update here - [Sunday Afternoon in Vondelpark, Amsterdam](https://travelinggardener.com/sunday-afternoon-in-vondelpark-amsterdam/) - An April day when the temperature doesn’t rise above 50 degrees and the sun slips behind the clouds every few minutes doesn’t sound like a perfect day in the park. - [Castle Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/castle-gardens/) - Fairy tales and history classes shape our view of English Castles. Lords and ladies, moats and minions, land and lances, were the bits and pieces of the story from a distant time and place. - [Parrish Church, Dover, England](https://travelinggardener.com/parrish-church-dover-england/) - The old stone Parrish church in Dover is near the city center, across the street from the Eight Bells pub. Behind the church is a small cemetery with gravestones - [Floriade](https://travelinggardener.com/floriade/) - The Netherlands is a small country but it holds a significant place in the world of horticulture. - [A sunny day in Kuekenhof](https://travelinggardener.com/a-sunny-day-in-kuekenhof/) - Which one is the best? Which is the favorite? The one you are looking at now. - [The Willowman](https://travelinggardener.com/the-willowman/) - Along the path to the Relax & Heal world of the Floriade Exposition is an opening leading into the woods. We almost missed it, we almost didn’t walk down the path. - [Landscape art](https://travelinggardener.com/landscape-art/) - Painting in plants creates art. This art is the highlight of the Jardin Botanico in Madeira, Portugal. - [One minute composition](https://travelinggardener.com/one-minute-composition/) - Once I watched a tourist video the still photos in a hotel lobby. I wondered how those images would be used to relive that moment of the trip. - [Where to sit?](https://travelinggardener.com/where-to-sit/) - A chair is not a simple thing, designs number in the thousands. Outdoor options which come to mind include the metal frame with the round back from the 50’s, the folding aluminum frame with the woven strips, and the more recent molded plastic. - [Ready to Wear](https://travelinggardener.com/ready-to-wear/) - It is hard to pack everything you need when you travel. I found a few things I could wear if I have a special occasion. Floral design and fashion meet in Keukenhof. - [Something Special](https://travelinggardener.com/something-special/) - I have visited the oldest known botanical garden. The Hortus Botanicas at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Here I saw the oldest known potted plant, a Cycad over 400 years old. - [Fiesta de Flor](https://travelinggardener.com/fiesta-de-flor/) - Flowers are everywhere in Madeira. This island has a perfect climate, warmed by Atlantic currents in the winter and cooled by trade winds in summer. - [Risco Bella Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/risco-bella-gardens/) - Love and passion make a powerful combination. A Belgium man deeply in love with his wife and passionate about gardening built a five level garden - [Jardin De Cactus](https://travelinggardener.com/jardin-de-cactus/) - We are so accustomed to being just one thing, having one label attached to us, we are a teacher, a welder, a policeman, an artist. When we aren’t afraid of being more than one thing, magic is possible. - [Celebrating Flora](https://travelinggardener.com/lets-celebrate-flora/) - n ancient times much of the world paused from their work to celebrate flowers. The Roman Goddess Flora was celebrated in the spring. A Maypole was erected,with ribbons streaming down, hands reached up and the dancing began. - [Monet’s living canvas](https://travelinggardener.com/monets-living-canvas/) - In early May in Monet’s Garden the dutch iris are blooming. - [Lost in a Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/lost-in-a-garden/) - I became impatient listening to the tour guide explain 700 years of history. Already I calmly sat through a long bus ride from the port of Cadiz to Seville to get to the Royal Palace Gardens of Alcazar. I wanted only to see the garden - [Gardens in Sunny Paris](https://travelinggardener.com/gardens-in-sunny-paris/) - On Thursday the weather turned fine in Paris. After a cold and very rainy spring the change in sky and temperature made everyone feel hopeful about the future. - [AZ Gardening](https://travelinggardener.com/az-gardening/) - “Mary Coulter was hired by the Fred Harvey Company in 1903 to design fine hotels, restaurants, . . She became America’s most influential woman designers. . . . - [Flagstaff Arboretum](https://travelinggardener.com/flagstaff-arboretum/) - Aspen trees have their fresh green leaves rattling in the breeze. Chimpmunks and song birds scamper about. If the rain comes the penstemon garden and the wildflowers will be beautiful in another month. - [Fluttering By](https://travelinggardener.com/fluttering-by/) - Butterflies in my garden are an occasional delight. I grow some of their favorite foods, the desert milkweed and lantana, to encourage them to stop by. - [Botanical Garden, Albuquerque](https://travelinggardener.com/botanical-garden/) - Even on a 100 degree day this garden is a cool place to be. Only 15 years old this 36 acre botanical garden was built in the site of a city park - [A Survivor Tree](https://travelinggardener.com/a-survivor-tree/) - A sign of life so significant that it inspired so many then and continues yet today. - [Leeds Castle, Kent, England](https://travelinggardener.com/leeds-castle-kent-england/) - English castles are the stuff of fairy tales with kings, queens and valiant knights in history and romantic fiction yet it was gardeners working inside the castle walls that made life possible. - [Rio Grande Bio Park, Botanical Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/rio-grande-bio-park-botanical-garden/) - Even on a 100 degree day this garden is a cool place to be. Only 15 years old, this 36-acre botanical garden was built in the site of a city park - [La Posada Hotel & Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/la-posada-hotel-gardens/) - One of our Arizona treasures is La Posada Resort in Winslow, AZ. Built in 1929 it is described as “the last great railroad hotel.” - [Madeira, Portugal, Island of Flowers](https://travelinggardener.com/madeira-portugal-an-island-of-flowers/) - Jardin Botanico in Madeira, Portugal. Landscape design is a combination of texture, color, structure, climate and patience - [Floral Beauty in Amarillo](https://travelinggardener.com/floral-beauty-in-amarillo/) - Amarillo is a town with a proud history of quarter horses and cattle. The scent of cattle reminds you of their importance - [Philbrook Art Museum & Gardens, Tulsa, OK](https://travelinggardener.com/philbrook-art-museum-gardens-tulsa-ok-2/) - If you should tire of your 72 room Italian villa surrounded by 23 acres of formal gardens, consider donating it to your city for an art museum. - [Myriad Botanical Gardens, Oklahoma City, OK](https://travelinggardener.com/myriad-botanical-gardens-oklahoma-city-ok/) - The defining feature of Myriad Gardens is the cylindrical shaped Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory centered to span the two acre lake. - [Chickens in Kauai](https://travelinggardener.com/chickens-in-kauai/) - Chickens were a constant part of my childhood. My Grandmothers, my great aunties, and my Mom all raised chickens. Those chickens supplied our eggs, and our dinner. As an adult, living in an urban environment raising chickens simply wasn’t an option. So I collected a flock of decorative fowl for my kitchen. Black and white - [Limahuli Garden, Kauai](https://travelinggardener.com/limahuli-garden-kauai/) - The tour guides try to convince you the only way to see the beauty of Kauai is by helicopter and the Napoli Coast cannot be enjoyed but by guided activity - [Philbrook Art Museum & Gardens, Tulsa, OK](https://travelinggardener.com/philbrook-art-museum-gardens-tulsa-ok/) - In the “roaring 20‘s” oilman Waite Phillips and his wife, Genevieve a wealthy couple, traveled abroad and became fascinated by architecture of 16th century Rome. - [Foster Botanical Garden, Oahu, HI](https://travelinggardener.com/foster-botanical-garden-oahu-hi/) - There are so many things to discover in Hawaii and this small garden is big in delight. There are 24 officially designated “Exceptional Trees” in this space - [Hospital Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/hospital-gardens/) - If you are at the hospital there is probably a crisis going on in your life and your mind is in a whirl - [The River Cafe, Brooklyn, NY](https://travelinggardener.com/the-river-cafe-brooklyn-ny/) - How many restaurants have a Director of Flowers & Gardens? The River Cafe does. - [Forecast: Cold and Beautiful](https://travelinggardener.com/forecast-cold-and-beautiful/) - When the temperature is freezing not many people set out to visit gardens. - [Gazing Balls](https://travelinggardener.com/gazing-balls/) - Venetian glass blowers began creating colorful spheres as gazing balls to reflect the light and the view of gardens - [Fruit & Vegetable Resolutions](https://travelinggardener.com/fruit-vegetable-resolutions/) - Oh the ritual of new year’s resolutions challenging us to be our better self has come around again. - [A Gardener's Resolutions](https://travelinggardener.com/a-gardeners-resolutions/) - I resolve to dig the holes before I go to the nursery. - [Escalante Community Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/escalante-community-garden/) - When a person has a passion, a purpose and a connection to the natural world it can feed a hunger of the soul - [Flowering Branches](https://travelinggardener.com/flowering-branches/) - Perhaps the very instant spring begins is that brief sunny moment when bare branches burst from bud to flower. Dormant limbs feeling the stir of seasonal change - [Spring Garden Road & Summer Street](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-garden-road-summer-street/) - What else could visitors expect to find at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Summer Street but a jewel of a garden? In Halifax, Nova Scotia you will find a rare Victorian Garden. - [Two birds in a tree](https://travelinggardener.com/two-birds-in-a-tree/) - A Road runner was flitting about in the branches. What a treat to see this rare bird in plain sight in the middle of the day. - [Royal Palace Gardens of Alcazar, Seville, Spain](https://travelinggardener.com/royal-palace-gardens-of-alcazar-seville-spain/) - Alcazar illustrates significant history in garden design. It began in the 12th century when Arab princes conquered Spain. Alcazar began as a Paradise garden for the royalty and an ostentatious symbol of power. In this climate, controlling the water supply was the most powerful control of all life. - [Peony Season](https://travelinggardener.com/peony-season/) - The peonies I knew bloomed in red, white and shades of pink There were single blooms with shaggy yellow centers or double blooms densely packed in shades of pink. - [What would a gardener do?](https://travelinggardener.com/what-would-a-gardener-do/) - Robert worked tirelessly to spend the vast fortune that he inherited. His constant effort produced two incredible gardens - [Green, Flower and Fruit, what all gardeners want,](https://travelinggardener.com/green-flower-and-fruit-what-all-gardeners-want/) - What I see are the similarities in my garden and theirs - [Self Realization Lake Shrine Meditation Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/self-realization-lake-shrine-meditation-garden/) - If garden delight is what you seek, wander in and away from the hub of traffic and stroll these beautiful grounds. - [The Drunken Botanist](https://travelinggardener.com/the-drunken-botanist/) - Amy Stewart writes with enthusiasm about plants and gardens and her books, The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential are all - [Down the Garden Path](https://travelinggardener.com/down-the-garden-path/) - Creating an entrance into our garden is a special creative opportunity to make our own garden grand. The garden path leads you in. - [Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont CA](https://travelinggardener.com/rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden-claremont-ca/) - This private non-profit garden/arboretum supports the graduate botany program of Claremont Graduate University. Grand selection of California natives. - [Virginia Robinson Mansion & Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/virginia-robinson-mansion-gardens/) - Beverly Hills Mansion built in 1911, gardens surrounded and expanded the home. - [Trees Drop Stuff!](https://travelinggardener.com/trees-drop-stuff/) - Leaves are the easy droppings, look at some of these trees and what they leave on the lawn. - [A Traveling Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/a-traveling-garden/) - A Traveling Garden creates blooms for two gardeners in two different climates. - [Loving Santa Fe](https://travelinggardener.com/loving-santa-fe/) - The Santa Fe Botanical garden is just beginning to grow. Visit now and return again and again to see it evolve and mature. - [Military Tanks Among the Flowers](https://travelinggardener.com/military-tanks-among-the-flowers/) - There are 29 acres of spectacular formal gardens. Catigny Park brims with wonderful ideas along the garden path. Set among the garden is a fascinating story of the family that left this garden to the public. - [Rich's Workshop](https://travelinggardener.com/richs-workshop/) - Rich works with metal, wood, tile and glass. He likes to figure things out, he measures so carefully, to the 64th of an inch. Here he is in mid project of some of the work he has done for the garden. In our new garden we left an empty space in the garden, so he - [Zest for Life](https://travelinggardener.com/zest-for-life/) - A connection with soil and nature grows a zest for life. - [Garden of Heart, Art & Flower](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-heart-art-flower/) - A garden love story of time, creativity and joy - [Changing the View](https://travelinggardener.com/changing-the-view/) - September to December If you ever indulge yourself in the Home and Garden TV fantasy experience of an entire remodel in less than an hour you realize, in more rational moments, life isn’t like that. Living through a major garden redesign is one of those events that remind you what reality really looks and feels - [70 Years a Gardener, Cactus Garden, Lotusland, CA](https://travelinggardener.com/70-years-a-gardener-cactus-garden-lotusland-ca/) - The Cactus Garden in Lotusland, CA, opened in celebration of Sigs Dunlap’s 97th birthday, in August 2003. His personal collection exceeded 520 cacti. - [The Caring of the Green. . A Love Story](https://travelinggardener.com/the-caring-of-the-green-a-love-story/) - The Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island in Washington State is a unique public green space, often referred to as both a garden and an arboretum. The word reserve is defined as a tract of land set aside for special use. - [Madame Ganna Walska's Lotusland](https://travelinggardener.com/madame-ganna-walskas-lotusland/) - Madame Ganna Walska was creative, artistic, rich and passionate about plants. Lotusland is a wonderland of a garden. - [Baby Hummingbird Rescue!](https://travelinggardener.com/baby-hummingbird-rescue/) - Sun stressed baby hummer rescue - [Flowers among the red rocks, Kanab, Utah](https://travelinggardener.com/flowers-among-the-red-rocks-kanab-utah/) - Kanab, Utah has red rocks, pink sand dunes and high cliffs. There is so much to look at in the great landscape of the area one doesn’t think to look for gardens. Yet in the city park the beauty of flowers is enhanced by the red rocks and a stretch of green grass enjoyed by - [Commitment to Beauty, Lincoln's Sunken Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/commitment-to-beauty-lincolns-sunken-garden/) - Gardens bring people together. It struck me that in the center of the country a community made a commitment to create beauty simply for all people to enjoy. It is a statement for public good in a world which seems so continually conflicted and angry. - [Farm fields of flowers](https://travelinggardener.com/farm-fields-of-flowers/) - Someone has to grow the seeds! A farmer of flowers. - [WW Seymour Conservatory, Tacoma, WA](https://travelinggardener.com/ww-seymour-conservatory-tacoma-wa/) - Conservatories generally hold exotic plants from faraway, at the WW Seymour Conservatory in Wright Park, Tacoma, WA, the flowers are familiar and fragrant. - [Van Dusen Garden, BC](https://travelinggardener.com/van-dusen-garden-bc/) - Towering Delphiniums highlight an old fashioned cutting garden in British Columbia's Van Dusen Garden - [Leach Garden, Portland, OR](https://travelinggardener.com/leach-garden-portland-or/) - Every garden holds a surprise though sometimes you have to really look for it because it is out of sight, down a path and across the water. This is exactly where I found this stone cottage. John & Lilla Leach lived the summers here in the early 1930’s while their larger home was being built. - [Garden Growth](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-growth/) - The garden of heart, art and flower grows with time. - [Carl S English Jr Botanical Garden,](https://travelinggardener.com/carl-s-english-jr-botanical-garden/) - Gardens grow in time, Carl S English sprouted seeds and transformed the Army Corp of Engineers parade grounds into a garden - [Stumpery Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/stumpery-garden/) - Using wood in a woodland garden creates magical results for ferns and moss. - [Brisbane Botanic Gardens:](https://travelinggardener.com/brisbane-botanic-gardens/) - Springtime in Australia in the Brisbane climate features subtropical plants. - [Destination: The Oregon Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/destination-the-oregon-garden/) - Gardens require thoughtful design, careful tending, and time to become something wonderful. The Oregon Garden has truly achieved all of this. - [Sunflowers in Song](https://travelinggardener.com/sunflowers-in-song/) - Sunflowers bring their own happy face to a garden but the birds will be there too! - [Sunflowers in Song](https://travelinggardener.com/sunflowers-in-song-2/) - A single row of sunflowers is a delight in my garden! As the flowers fade and seeds form a flock of yellow canaries and some peach faced loved birds descended on the tasty seed heads. I heard them chatter, I heard their songs. They were everywhere in the garden. I looked out my window and - [Floriade Nightfest](https://travelinggardener.com/floriade-nightfest/) - Floriade’s Nightfest is a party among the flowers with waves of lights falling on the beds of tulips & pansies. - [Roma Street Parkland](https://travelinggardener.com/roma-street-parkland/) - It is said that great cities have great parks and as I travel I see this proved true again and again. But I would add, great cities have citizens who realize the value of their parks and come to them to rest, relax, revive their spirits and reconnect to the important things in life. Here - [Chinese Friendship Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/chinese-friendship-garden/) - Every day a garden is different, the Chinese Friendship Garden in Sydney, Australia bursts into color in a September Spring. - [Floriade, a Celebration of Spring!](https://travelinggardener.com/floriade-a-celebration-of-spring/) - Floriade is a annual Spring celebration of flowers, held in Commonwealth Park, Canberra, the Australian Capital. The month long celebration has been held for 27 years - [The Artichoke Project](https://travelinggardener.com/the-artichoke-project/) - In my artichoke project I was aiming for food, but in resisting my desire for the food for the body, I let the plant produce flowers which creates food for my soul. - [Plants of Ice & Fire](https://travelinggardener.com/plants-of-ice-fire/) - The Subantarctic house opened in 2000 allowing a glimpse of plant life few travelers would ever see. - [Garden Conservatory - A Crystal Palace](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-conservatory-a-crystal-palace/) - Public gardens featuring a conservatory provide an architectural feature worthy of observation and admiration. Wandering inside you are guaranteed a surprise. - [A Garden Love Story - Abkhazi Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/a-garden-love-story-abkhazi-garden/) - The garden is a thing of great beauty but the story behind it is a romantic masterpiece. The Abkhazi garden was a place of comfort and healing. - [Seeds, One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees](https://travelinggardener.com/seeds-one-mans-serendipitous-journey-to-find-the-trees/) - Are we influenced by the trees of our childhood? - [The Artist’s Garden, edited by Anna O. Marley](https://travelinggardener.com/the-artists-garden-edited-by-anna-o-marley/) - "The Artist’s Garden American Impressionism and the Garden Movement" edited by Anna O. Marley Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia C 2014 Tracing the connection of garden and art is the just released book The Artist's Garden, American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, edited by Anna O. Marley, focused on the period 1887-1920.This collection - [Yellow Season](https://travelinggardener.com/yellow-season/) - It is yellow season in the Desert Southwest. It is that brief time between our short spring and very long hot summer when yellow flowering plants - [What's Your Sign?](https://travelinggardener.com/whats-your-sign/) - I arrived at Tulip Top Gardens, a 10 acre private display garden about 20 miles north of Canberra, the Australian capital city. The culmination of all that is beautiful in spring flowers appeared as I walked down the gravel path. - [Digging Deep](https://travelinggardener.com/digging-deep/) - Fran Sorin’s 10th Anniversary edition of Digging Deep, Unearthing your creative Roots Through Gardening Author Fran Sorin offers such a clear song of hope in an era of ernest gardening. This book offers garden guidance, motivation and inspiration to reframe your definition of gardening. So many gardeners are digging in their plants with a fear - [Donna's Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/donnas-garden/) - If your garden is a passion, you walk onto that patch of earth you hold dear, you look to see what is growing and blooming, what is fading and spent. - [Texas Flowers, Clark Gardens, Weatherford, TX](https://travelinggardener.com/texas-flowers-clark-gardens-weatherford-tx/) - Bluebonnets of Texas - [Nemours, French & Fabulous](https://travelinggardener.com/nemours-french-fabulous/) - An American Versailles - [A Walk in the Woods](https://travelinggardener.com/a-walk-in-the-woods/) - Mt. Cuba is committed to research on native plants on its 500 acres. The garden was originally developed by Mr. & Mrs Lammot du Pont Copeland. - [If I were to have a conservatory . . .](https://travelinggardener.com/if-i-were-to-have-a-conservatory/) - Perfection in a private conservatory, everything you would need. - [Welcoming Children in the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/the-rory-meyers-childrens-adventure-garden/) - Given time to explore the bugs in the grass, to peer into a pool of water and experience the gooey, stinky, pokey, slimy bits of a new world is education. - [Killdeer, Killdeer, Henry Schmeider Arboretum](https://travelinggardener.com/killdeer-killdeer-henry-schmeider-arboretum/) - The Killdeer mother takes great caution in protecting her eggs from intruders. - [A Castle, Flowers & Vegetables](https://travelinggardener.com/castle-flowers-and-vegetables/) - A Royal Castle and gardens with a ribbon of colors framing the garden like a masterpiece painting. - [Chanticleer Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/chanticleer-gardens/) - Alliums star in the spring display at Chanticleer. - [Wisteria Wonder](https://travelinggardener.com/wisteria-wonder/) - Wisteria blooms and fades, but it is glorious! - [Tree Houses in an Arboretum!](https://travelinggardener.com/tree-houses-in-an-arboretum/) - A feature that thrills children and adults alike are 10 tree houses scattered about. Some up in the air, some on the ground, several fully accessible. - [American History--Garden View](https://travelinggardener.com/american-history-garden-view/) - The history of our nation is shaped by more than treaties and battles. Gardens and agriculture were true passions of our founding fathers. - [An American Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/an-american-garden/) - American plants changed the look of gardens all over the world. - [Composition of Cactus](https://travelinggardener.com/composition-of-cactus/) - As gardeners around the world face rising temperatures and water restrictions a cactus and succulent landscape offers a magical option. - [Blooms Upon the Water](https://travelinggardener.com/blooms-upon-the-water/) - Water lilies blooming on the water, a composition of Monet, a moment of beauty in our own garden. - [Trees, Gardens and Students](https://travelinggardener.com/trees-gardens-and-students/) - College campuses offer an experience of nature's wonder. - [Vall Kill Cottage, Eleanor Roosevelt’s favorite place](https://travelinggardener.com/vall-kill-cottage-eleanor-roosevelts-favorite-place/) - A home with a garden was Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite place. - [Garden of Art & Flowers- Feature](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-art-flowers-feature/) - Our home garden is featured. - [Untermyer Park, Yonkers, NY](https://travelinggardener.com/untermyer-park-yonkers-ny/) - A walled garden is an artful composition at the end of summer. - [Innisfree Gardens, Millbrook, NY](https://travelinggardener.com/innisfree-gardens-millbrook-ny/) - "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree." W.B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1888) A garden with a Scottish poet’s reference for its name, a woodland plant palate, a lake and a Asian influence creating a garden of individual style. This isn’t a flower garden, yet there are blooms. This isn’t - [The Bethlehem Fair](https://travelinggardener.com/the-bethlehem-fair/) - Celebrating the end of summer gardeners head to the local fair. - [Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/coastal-maine-botanical-gardens/) - Granite in gray, black, and white dominate and is the feature which defines the landscape of the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. - [Blithewold Mansion and Gardens, Bristol, RI](https://travelinggardener.com/blithewold-mansion-and-gardens-bristol-ri/) - The Blithewold, Mansion sits surrounded by woodlands and a grand lawn looking out on an ocean view. Established in 1895 the last surviving family member lived in the home until 1976. These old estate gardens change over the years but some specific elements remain to help you see what was there. The word - [The Blue Rose, an English Garden Mystery by Anthony Elgin.](https://travelinggardener.com/the-blue-rose-an-english-garden-mystery-by-anthony-elgin/) - Retired Botany Professor Lawrence Kingston is called in to examine the authenticity of a sapphire blue rose growing in Alex & Kate’s English garden. Then a mystery begins without the blood & gore of so many mystery tales but with intrigue surrounding the ins and out of the rose industry, including gardening practices, vividly rainy - [Gratitude for Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/gratitude-for-gardens/) - Reflections on the blessings of a garden. - [Celebrating the Light](https://travelinggardener.com/celebrating-the-light/) - Light in the garden celebrates the season of winter solstice. - [Memorable Gardens 2015](https://travelinggardener.com/memorable-moments-of-garden-visits/) - The Traveling Gardener's Illustrated visit to the top ten garden visits in 2015 . Chosen from 100 American gardens, these magical days are meant to be shared. - [Vander Veer Botanical Park & Conservatory, Davenport IA](https://travelinggardener.com/vander-veer-botanical-park-and-conservatory-davenport-ia/) - Vander Veer Botanic Park and Gardens is beautiful in all four seasons. The other four season element of beauty are the citizens who come to the park. - [Chihuly's Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/chihulys-garden-2/) - Artist Dale Chihuly and Landscape Designer Richard Hartledge who transformed an asphalt parking lot under the Space Needle into Chihuly Garden and Glass. - [Inspiration from Chanticleer](https://travelinggardener.com/inspiration-from-chanticleer/) - The Art of Gardening: Design Inspiration & Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer, Bill Thomas, "Our garden exists to inspire and is filled with ideas to try at home.” - [Parks & Gardens, History & Beauty](https://travelinggardener.com/parks-gardens-flowers-trees/) - Wallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, - [Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, Bishopville, South Carolina](https://travelinggardener.com/pearl-fryar-topiary-garden-bishopville-south-carolina/) - A three-acre garden of 150 topiaries is internationally known and each year nearly 10,000 visitors come from all over the world to see Pearl Fryar's Topiary - [Audubon Swamp Garden Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, SC](https://travelinggardener.com/audubon-swamp-garden-magnolia-plantation-charleston-sc/) - The Audubon Swamp Garden is a wildlife sanctuary. A paradise of plants, water birds, birds of prey, turtles, marsh rabbits, alligators, and bull frogs. - [A Gardener’s Legacy, The Ruth Bancroft Garden,](https://travelinggardener.com/a-gardeners-legacy-the-ruth-bancroft-garden/) - A cactus and succulent oasis inspires new thinking on water saving gardening. - [Around the World in 80 Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/around-the-world-in-80-gardens/) - Travel the world with Monty Don as he explores 80 unique, and delightful gardens. He takes you beyond the usual visitor viewpoint & you won't have to pack. - [Gardens of Awe and Folly](https://travelinggardener.com/gardens-of-awe-and-folly/) - GARDENS OF AWE AND FOLLY A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening by Vivian Swift Visiting gardens wherever I travel is my greatest delight, yet friends ask, “Why? Don’t you see the same plants over and over?” Vivian Swift in her new book Gardens of Awe and Folly, has the best answer - [Celebrating Garden Travels](https://travelinggardener.com/celebrating-garden-travels/) - Public gardens, parks, historic estates, and botanical collections in glass houses provide endless fascination and inspiration. - [Signaling Welcome](https://travelinggardener.com/signaling-welcome/) - Posted signs are the voice speaking directly to visitors. When it comes to signs everywhere, some are creative offenders and a few are just plain offenders. - [Christchurch Botanic Garden, NZS](https://travelinggardener.com/christchurch-botanic-garden-nzs/) - Christchurch was the garden capital of New Zealand but the quake has deeply impacted the energy of its gardeners. People’s spirits are still recovering. - [On Location—The Garden Steals The Show](https://travelinggardener.com/on-location-the-garden-steals-the-show/) - Period dramas remain fascinating and the setting of Rippon Lea, near Victoria, Australia circa 1920's shows us why. - [Oh the gardens you will find!](https://travelinggardener.com/oh-the-gardens-you-will-find/) - The Taranaki Garden festival in New Zealand welcomes you to magnificent gardens. - [Taranaki Garden Festival, New Zealand](https://travelinggardener.com/taranaki-garden-festival-new-zealand/) - Powerco Garden Festival, (celebrating its 30th year) & The Fringe Garden Festival. Together over 85 home gardens are open for touring. - [Coastal View](https://travelinggardener.com/coastal-view/) - Driving down a coast road I wondered, “What will grow along the sea, with salt air, wind and waves?” Turns out really quite a lot of wonderful things. I knew immediately a grand gardener lived here as we arrived at a coastal side patch of grass and waves of orange gazanias (daisy style) blooms accented - [Chantecler, A private garden near Queenstown, NZS](https://travelinggardener.com/chantecler-a-private-garden-near-queenstown-nzs/) - An extraordinary garden, Chantecler, retirement project - [Not Natives Only!](https://travelinggardener.com/not-natives-only/) - Native plants are getting all the love in garden talk today but the plant world is too exciting to limit this gardener to local fauna. - [Finding Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/finding-gardens/) - Resources for finding gardens around the world - [Te Puna Quarry Park, NZ](https://travelinggardener.com/te-puna-quarry-park/) - Masses of people come to New Zealand to travel the trail of Hobbits and dragons. Not I. - [Plant, Exploring The Botanical World](https://travelinggardener.com/plant-exploring-the-botanical-world/) - Review of Plant Exploring The Botanical World - [The Bold Dry Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/the-bold-dry-garden/) - Lessons From the Ruth Bancroft Garden, Johanna Silver, Photographs by Marion Brenner, Published by Timber Press 2016 Today’s gardeners digging succulents and arid plants will immediately be attracted to the beautiful cover of The Bold Dry Garden. The surprise in opening the book is that before you learn about arid plants you get a story - [A Passion for Purple](https://travelinggardener.com/a-passion-for-purple/) - Purple in a garden adds depth and beauty - [Broadfield Gardens, Christchurch, NZS](https://travelinggardener.com/broadfield-gardens-christchurch-nzs/) - In a country where everything grows, one man's garden showcases native NZ plants. - [Peace Flame Garden, Wellington, NZ](https://travelinggardener.com/peace-flame-garden-wellington-nz/) - A small country keeps alive an important message about nuclear weapons, it is a message worth sharing. - [Fantastic Flowers by Susan Stockdale](https://travelinggardener.com/fantastic-flowers-by-susan-stockdale/) - Review of children's book Fantastic Flower, written and illustrated by Susan Stockdale - [Casa Azul at Tucson Botanical Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/casa-azul-at-tucson-botanical-garden/) - Tucson Botanical Garden is hosting the New York Botanical Garden’s curated Frida Kahlo: Art, Life & Garden exhibition. - [Most Memorable Garden Moments 2016](https://travelinggardener.com/most-memorable-garden-moments-2016/) - A Traveling Gardener visited 134 new gardens in 2016, here are the best moments. - [Travel Lessons](https://travelinggardener.com/travel-lessons/) - Traveling to New Zealand? Experienced advice for making it a memorable trip from A Traveling Gardener. - [Minnesota Landscape Arboretum](https://travelinggardener.com/minnesota-landscape-arboretum/) - Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (MLA), in near-by Chaska, won top spot in the “Best Botanical Garden in the United States” contest by USA Today - [Art Deco Landscape in Gardens of Napier, NZ North Island](https://travelinggardener.com/art-deco-landscape-in-gardens-of-napier-nz-north-island/) - Visiting Napier at any time is a fascinating experience but since 1980 Napier has been celebrating its unique art deco cityscape. - [Lauritzen Gardens, A Heartland Splendor](https://travelinggardener.com/lauritzen-gardens-a-heartland-splendor/) - I would propose there is no prettier mid-point stop in a drive across the continental US than Lauritzen Gardens in Omaha Nebraska. - [Sundials, Time in a garden](https://travelinggardener.com/sundials-time-in-a-garden/) - A sundial, as a focal point in a sunny patch of the garden, today the very idea of a sundial can be one of nostalgia or rebuked as nonsense. - [Weather](https://travelinggardener.com/weather/) - Weather is an element of gardening. - [Gardener Gift List](https://travelinggardener.com/gardener-gift-list/) - There are shopping list and gift lists circulating during the Holiday season. Gardeners may not know what might make their life easier. So here are a few suggestions tried & tested by Linda Larson, A Traveling Gardener, wandering, wondering, noticing. . . Gifts for people who have trees I love the Barnell Tiger Tooth folding - [Jardin Exotic, Monte Carlo, Monaco](https://travelinggardener.com/jardin-exotic-monte-carlo-monaco/) - My travel experience continues to confirm the best way to explore the world is through gardens, La Jardin Exotic’s view of Monaco reinforces this belief. - [Finding Gardeners in The Mediterranean Cities of Venice, Athens, & Barcelona](https://travelinggardener.com/finding-gardeners-in-the-mediterranean-cities-of-venice-athens-barcelona/) - In Europe's capitals gardeners show themselves, they leak out, around doorways, on balconies, and rooftops. - [Out of the Desert into the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/out-of-the-desert-into-the-garden/) - The Alhambra & Generalife Gardens Granada, Andalusia, Spain The Alhambra, in Granada, Spain looms large in the history of gardens. Monty Don, host of the British program, Gardener’s World, says “the Islamic mind changed the way the whole of Europe gardens” and the evidence bears this out the more - [Ladew Topiary Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/ladew-topiary-garden/) - Ladew Topiary Garden in Maryland is on the list of 1001 Gardens to See. - [January Resolutions](https://travelinggardener.com/january-resolutions/) - Inspired by a new year we follow a familiar path of resolutions, if only there was a way to achieve these resolutions! Well, “There is a garden for that!” - [A Holiday Moment](https://travelinggardener.com/a-holiday-moment/) - While I like to think I live with an awareness of individuality and diversity, a simple candy cane reminds me it is always a journey in this life. - [Splendor on the Side](https://travelinggardener.com/splendor-on-the-side/) - A magical mix of low water use plants and artful touches, creating two thematic gardens. - [Most Memorable Garden Moments, 2017](https://travelinggardener.com/most-memorable-garden-moments-2017/) - I go to gardens to find the best view of the world. I find design, art, and plants. But I always find more to the story. - [Gibbs Gardens, North Georgia Beauty](https://travelinggardener.com/gibbs-gardens-north-georgia-beauty/) - A destination pleasure garden designed and developed over 30 years by a master of landscape art. If you haven’t heard of it yet it isn’t because you aren’t paying attention. It has only been open to the public since 2012. - [Peace & Tranquility in Washington D. C.](https://travelinggardener.com/peace-tranquility-in-washington-d-c/) - America the Beautiful is depends on plants, trees, bees, living in an environment of fertile soil, predictable climate, & reliable source of clean water. - [Dodge City, beyond a cowboy story](https://travelinggardener.com/dodge-city-beyond-a-cowboy-story/) - Winding my way home I arrived in Dodge City KS, cow town, the place of wild west stories of Bat Masterson & Wyatt Earp. I found another story. . . - [Hortense had a garden](https://travelinggardener.com/hortense-had-a-garden/) - I believe I would have liked Hortense Miller. She loved plants, was intensely curious, extremely independent and a scientific observer. - [Daffodils, Jonquils, Narcissus, Oh My!](https://travelinggardener.com/daffodils-jonquils-narcissus-oh-my/) - This sunny yellow flower trumpets the return of spring showing up in gardens, paintings, and poems. Its arrival promises to end gray winter days. - [Planting Fun In The Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/planting-fun-in-the-garden/) - I’m finding a lot of whimsy popping up in gardens. Creative minds find a way to celebrate summer and bring some fun to the flowers. See artful display to be enjoyed for just now. - [Lilac Festival, Mackinac Island](https://travelinggardener.com/lilac-festival-mackinac-island/) - Mackinac Island blooms in the early summer with lavender, pink, white, & deep purple lilacs. It is a spectacular sight, - [A room with a garden too!](https://travelinggardener.com/a-room-with-a-garden-too/) - Travel is a privilege and the more opportunities I have to experience the people, landscapes and delights of this world the more I realize how lucky I am. - [Paul loves to garden . . .](https://travelinggardener.com/paul-loves-to-garden/) - I was walking the red brick sidewalks of Germantown near downtown Columbus, OH when I stopped mid-step. - [Magical Mosaics](https://travelinggardener.com/magical-mosaics/) - Visiting Matthaei Botanical Garden in Ann Arbor I was in awe of the detailed imaginative mosaic work the artist,Yulia Hanasen and her volunteers produced. - [What should a gardener drink?](https://travelinggardener.com/what-should-a-gardener-drink/) - What else should a gardener drink? Gin is infused w/ botanicals it is a liquid combination of the garden - [Arranging Flowers & Ideas](https://travelinggardener.com/arranging-flowers-ideas/) - Biblio Botany,Books Sprouting New Life work by Ohio artist Lisa Meeks arranges ideas with flowers. - [Looking at Gardens On Both Sides Now](https://travelinggardener.com/looking-at-gardens-on-both-sides-now/) - Gardens are the place everyone can see the variety, value, and beauty of the natural world. Gardeners know no boundaries in sharing the beauty of nature. - [A Contemplative Atmosphere](https://travelinggardener.com/a-contemplative-atmosphere/) - Providing a proper burial was & still is seen as an obligation of the living to provide for the dead, “the last great necessity of a modern civilized society,” - [Highgrove, A Royal Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/highgrove-a-royal-garden/) - I will tell you this— I believe HRH, Prince Charles is really a gardener. This garden is a creation of exceptional beauty - [A Garden in Architecture](https://travelinggardener.com/a-garden-in-architecture/) - Barcelona is a city by the sea with a climate that draws the people, both locals and tourists out of doors to enjoy life walking tree-lined streets such as the Ramblas, enjoying the cafes, admiring the ironwork railings of balconies, and decorative doorways. - [Rich wandering](https://travelinggardener.com/rich-wandering/) - Behind the beautiful garden images and half the fun of the garden visits all over the world is this guy, Rich, my husband of 45 years. Together we are exploring the world through gardens and having an exciting time. Our joint study of geography has reminded us of how big the world is and how - [Garden Museum](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-museum/) - England’s influence in gardening is both historic and far-reaching, so it is fitting that London has the Garden Museum. - [Ancient Oaks](https://travelinggardener.com/ancient-oaks/) - Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art is hosting Mark Frith: a legacy of ancient oaks. I struggle to put into words the impact this exhibition had on me - [January in New Orleans](https://travelinggardener.com/january-in-new-orleans/) - Enrique Alférez, an American-Mexican artist (1901-1999) Made America Great Art. - [Forgotten Gardens of the Îles du Salut](https://travelinggardener.com/forgotten-gardens-of-the-iles-du-salut/) - Forgotten Gardens of the Islands of Salvation Devil’s Island was an isolated prison from 1852-1953 with some 80,000 prisoners held in unspeakably horrible conditions during that time. Now we tourists wander about it looking at the crumbling buildings, glancing at the chapel paintings done by the imprisoned art forger, Francis Lagrange. I shudder at the - [Grenada, Island of Spice](https://travelinggardener.com/grenada-island-of-spice/) - This small country seasons the world with nutmeg (20% of the world's supply), mace, cloves, turmeric, cinnamon, bay leaf, and cacao. This agricultural output rightly gives the country the spice isle title. It is also a land of rich volcanic soil. The weather here is 78 degrees and sunny, rainy spells, averaging 218 rainy days. - [Sunnyside Garden, Grenada](https://travelinggardener.com/sunnyside-garden-grenada/) - The Sunnyside garden sits high on a hill in just east of the Capital, St Georges, in Grenada. You must walk a broad, steep and uneven driveway to reach the gardens. Once again the garden is placed to take advantage of the best views. The true gardener for this property was a woman, who had her - [Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Garden, Cayman Islands](https://travelinggardener.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-botanic-garden-cayman-islands/) - The Cayman Islands has close to 600 bank & trust companies but only one Botanic Garden. - [Longue Vue House and Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/longue-vue-house-and-garden/) - Longue Vue is what happens when a powerful garden designer persuades the homeowner to change their house. Ellen Biddle Shipman held sway! - [Three Days in Rio!](https://travelinggardener.com/three-days-in-rio/) - Roberto Burle Marx, 62-year career as a modernist landscape designer, painter, environmentalist, plant collector, left his mark on this enormous country - [Day Three - Three Days in Rio](https://travelinggardener.com/day-three-three-days-in-rio/) - Rio Botanical Garden offers an extensive view of the plant life available to visitors who might think the only place to go would be deep in the Amazon. - [Spring Glory in Arizona](https://travelinggardener.com/spring-glory-in-az/) - Right now, this moment the AZ landscape has blossomed into its full glory. - [Plastic Blooms](https://travelinggardener.com/plastic-blooms/) - What could you make with garden hoses, RX bottles, slide trays, video cables, electrical wire, piano keys, pan lids, bottle caps, zip ties, and license plates? - [Day Two, Three Days in Rio!](https://travelinggardener.com/day-two-three-days-in-rio/) - Roberto Burle Marx forever changed the landscape of gardens in Brazil. - [Frank Cabot is The Gardener](https://travelinggardener.com/frank-cabot-is-the-gardener/) - The interview with Frank Cabot reveals the soul of a man deeply connected to the beauty of life found in gardening. - [Garden Happiness & Heartbreak](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-happiness-heartbreak/) - It is magnificent, it is crazy beautiful. The white blossoms of the lady banks rose, and the twisted weathered wood against a deep yellow wall works - [A Walk Along Spokane River](https://travelinggardener.com/a-walk-along-spokane-river/) - Spokane, WA seems to have embraced Olmsted's ideas of the importance of public green spaces to make a community more livable. - [A Collection of Curiosities](https://travelinggardener.com/a-collection-of-curiosities/) - Some days I find things. It might be a tiny feather, a broken bird egg, or a dragonfly that will hover no more. - [More summer reading](https://travelinggardener.com/more-summer-reading/) - When the first gardeners began to consider cross-breeding of plants, they were condemned by religious leaders. They had to conduct their work in secret - [Weather](https://travelinggardener.com/weather-2/) - What we are seeing now; wildfires in the West, hurricanes, and floods on the coasts, and earthquakes destroy gardens, trees, green space, wildlife and more. - [Reflections on Recoleta](https://travelinggardener.com/reflections-on-recoleta/) - A cemetery may not be one of the first things you think of when it comes to visiting new cities, but I encourage you to reconsider. - [It's a Cow Parade!](https://travelinggardener.com/its-a-cow-parade/) - Decorated in sunflowers and pine branches the cows followed the route through town - [The Overstory, A Novel](https://travelinggardener.com/the-overstory-a-novel/) - In the season of chestnuts, in Brooklyn, NY, immigrants are rejoicing to find trees dropping food. It is the American dream come true in the time of Walden Pond - [Gardening in the Alps](https://travelinggardener.com/gardening-in-the-alps/) - Murren is a popular destination for travelers, so it would be easy to assume this is done just for the tourists who come. Some favorite displays I return to over and over again. The neatly stacked woodpiles are even part of the floral display. I used to ski, and I love to garden, but I'm - [Ribbon of Flowers, Lucerne, Switzerland](https://travelinggardener.com/ribbon-of-flowers-lucerne-switzerland/) - A mass planting of the dragon wing begonias, red geraniums, Swedish ivy, and vinca major caught my attention - [Puzzled About Pumpkins](https://travelinggardener.com/puzzled-about-pumpkins/) - Why do we not eat pumpkin? - [Paris, Gardens Large & Small](https://travelinggardener.com/paris-gardens-large-small/) - Fontainebleau, home of French Royalty for over 700 years, including a series of Louie, Louie, Louie's, Emperor Napoleon, Josephine, and more survives as an architectural and artistic history of France. There are 1500 rooms, w/ marble halls, gilded ceilings and paintings larger than a two-car garage door. I'd always heard of this place, I've seen - [An American Landscape Design in Paris](https://travelinggardener.com/an-american-landscape-design-in-paris/) - There are multitudes of places for people to enjoy the out of doors thanks to modernist landscape architect American, Dan Kiley, - [Il Cavallo, Leonardo's Horse & The American Horse](https://travelinggardener.com/il-cavallo-leonardos-horse-the-american-horse/) - In Meijer Garden & Sculpture Park, The American Horse has pride of place. So realistic you expect it to move, stomp the ground, snort the air, swish his tail. - [Garden of Verona, Italy](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-of-verona-italy/) - I can't imagine the effect on unsuspecting guests seeing shooting flames in the dark of night coming from the pinnacle of the garden. - [Walking in Milan, Italy--Vertical Forests](https://travelinggardener.com/walking-in-milan-italy-vertical-forests/) - Milan has been called the gray city with rainy weather & gray architecture of the fascist period, but it is rebranding itself as a green city. - [Cactus Wranglers](https://travelinggardener.com/cactus-wranglers/) - I had this idea a saguaro stands for centuries in the Sonoran Desert. But no, a gooey, sticky, icky black oil began dripping on the cactus trunk - [Colorful Moments in 2019](https://travelinggardener.com/colorful-moments-in-2019/) - Everywhere I went I found colorful food, critters, art, and, of course, colorful flowers. - [Why Mona Lisa?](https://travelinggardener.com/why-mona-lisa/) - Somehow wherever I go, I find flowers. After climbing a grand staircase to the top floor, I find "The Magical Garden of Antoon Krings." - [Vegetables, Villandry & Vive la France!](https://travelinggardener.com/oh-look-villandry-gardens-loire-valley/) - Villandry one of the most famous gardens in all of France. Located some three hours southwest of Paris is known for its famous kitchen garden. - [Gardening Since 1545](https://travelinggardener.com/gardening-since-1545/) - Padua Botanic Garden in northern Italy, I entered with the assumption; this is the world's oldest known botanic garden. - [Spring](https://travelinggardener.com/spring/) - Spring is a date on the calendar, but it really arrives in the garden when it is good and ready - [Did this happen?](https://travelinggardener.com/did-this-happen/) - Is it possible, could it be a steel bird attracted a Great Blue Heron to land in our garden? - [Grace & Marigolds](https://travelinggardener.com/grace-marigolds/) - Just because I have the biggest, most beautiful, and very best flowers on my street doesn't mean a different rule for the sidewalk width in front of my house. - [Flavors of Mexico](https://travelinggardener.com/flavors-of-mexico/) - How interdependent we are for our pleasures of the table - [Cup of Coffee?](https://travelinggardener.com/cup-of-coffee/) - Coffee, over the years, I've had it boiled, dripped, pressed, and expressed. - [This World](https://travelinggardener.com/this-world/) - Are we always only three feet away from a spider? - [A Happy Kitchen](https://travelinggardener.com/a-happy-kitchen/) - The pleasure of the table during the quarantine - [Along the Lake](https://travelinggardener.com/along-the-lake/) - Geneva Botanic Garden with stunning views overlooking Lake Geneva, the largest glacial lake in Europe. - [I'm thinking of Nicaragua](https://travelinggardener.com/im-thinking-of-nicaragua/) - Life is fragile; the government ignores the people of this emerald green country. My heart hurts. - [Costa Rica, Orchids & Ants](https://travelinggardener.com/costa-rica-orchids-ants/) - Lankester garden, in Costa Rica, specializes in the study and collection of orchids, ferns, bromeliads, palms, and zingiberales. - [When a Tree Has to Go](https://travelinggardener.com/when-a-tree-has-to-go/) - For years, I’ve gardened under the shade of a neighbor’s soaring pine trees, it’s branches extending far over my patio, the grill, and my orange tree. Their dark, dense canopy obstructing the light from the flower beds below. Now, the shade, the pollen, the pine cones, the needles, and the acidic air, are all gone. - [Women in the Garden](https://travelinggardener.com/women-in-the-garden/) - March is unpredictable. One day it's windy, the next day calm. Sprouts of green spring up from mud and buds begin to swell on bare branches of trees. Around the middle of the month, people cheer about their ancestry, start dancing a jig and profess a belief in leprechauns and fairies. Then when an entire| - [Remembering Rain](https://travelinggardener.com/remembering-rain/) - #post_contentAs I face another summer staycation in my garden, I am hopeful yet fearful of the weather. As much of the northern hemisphere sings the refrain of "April showers bring May flowers," we are all wonde… - [An Island of Flowers](https://travelinggardener.com/an-island-of-flowers/) - [Splash](https://travelinggardener.com/splash/) - As the summer temperatures rise, we have waterparks, swimming pools, and water blasters for cooling off. It is such fun to anticipate the cool plunge, the joy of the cooling water. Expecting the splash is fun; a random splash is a water joke*. Water jokes were quite popular in renaissance gardens in Italy**. The unsuspecting - [Uncertainty Prevails, Bloom Anyway](https://travelinggardener.com/uncertainty-prevails-bloom-anyway/) - #post_contentIn early June, this plant, like me, was anticipating a beautiful summer, - [Why do we garden?](https://travelinggardener.com/why-do-we-garden/) - “Sometimes people go to extremes and create eccentric, fantastic, obsessive gardens that linger in one’s memory and become tourist meccas.” Diane Ackerman, Cultivating Delight Why do we Garden? It has been my passion and pleasure to explore gardens everywhere I go, and I've seen the grand, the curious, the serious, and the scary. It is - [End of spring in my garden ](https://travelinggardener.com/end-of-spring-in-my-garden/) - I have been at home in my garden for over 14 months. I have been untouched by the direct loss of loved ones. I've not been ill. I'm vaccinated, comfortable and companionable with the love of my life sharing this experience. There are many things I haven't liked about this forced seclusion, but my good - [Garden Solutions!](https://travelinggardener.com/garden-solutions/) - #post_contentAtlanta Botanical, Cantigny Park, Illinois, Georgia - [Roses of Ecuador](https://travelinggardener.com/roses-of-ecuador/) - My appreciation of roses and the growing of roses is forever altered. - [Before the Flutter*](https://travelinggardener.com/before-the-flutter/) - #post_contentWho doesn't love butterflies? But who wants their garden skeletonized by a hungry army of caterpillars? - [Guardians of the Gardens](https://travelinggardener.com/guardians-of-the-gardens/) - #post_contentHeading into a new year the last thing any of us wanted was another round of virus vexation. If you are considering your options beyond the scientific realm with a subtle "knock wood, lucky rabbit's foot, or fingers crossed" before heading out into the world, you join a long human tradition of attempting to ward off evil spirits and bad influences. Maybe you could add a Guardian Lion to your garden. - [From a Flower to Your Heart](https://travelinggardener.com/from-a-flower-to-your-heart/) - Valentine's Day is my favorite celebration, and yes, I know it isn't a holiday, it is a marketing event. While it seems so commercial today, I am surprised to discover it has always been about marketing! In the late 1800s, Richard Cadbury needed to sell more chocolates to use his company's cocoa butter surplus. Victorians - [Agave Show](https://travelinggardener.com/agave-show/) - Agave Angustifolia is a spiky devil, every spear shape leaf toothed, always ready to saw into your skin and make you bleed if you get too close. - ["A not good enough garden" Linderhof Palace](https://travelinggardener.com/a-not-good-enough-garden-linderhof-palace/) - Linderhof Palace is nestled in the Bavarian Alps in southern Germany. King Ludwig II's love of Versailles inspired the formal Baroque-style gardens surrounding the small palace. Versailles exerted enormous influence over European garden design, and Ludwig was determined to create his own majestic garden. Our visit here was on a misty day with layers of - [Floriade 2022--Hope for the Planet](https://travelinggardener.com/floriade-2022-hope-for-the-planet/) - Returning to Floriade this year was the culmination of a ten-year goal. The last one was so exciting, so beautiful, and inspiring I was determined to return. 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