“When yellow dives into the red the ripples are orange.”—Derek Jarman In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale of 1390 a fox was...

Last month, within five days, I explored two botanical gardens and each presented an artists’s work alongside the plants. On a Friday in...

“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I was in the garden of friends whose...

“I was always attracted to mud.” – Emily Dickinson A garden is ephemeral. It is an artificial creation, an attempt to impose order on the...

“Annuals provide…a sense of accidental beauty, a lightening of the heart that comes because beauty is brief.”—Wayne Winterrowd Perennial...

“Summertime, and the living is easy./ Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.”--George Gershwin “Summertime, time, time child, the...