I mentioned a while back that I was going to France, but in the frenzied lead up to our flight, I ran out of time to do the actual “Okay, I’m leaving” post. So voila – I’m doing it now – albeit a bit late. Posts may be infrequent for the next two weeks, and […]
Gardens to Visit
And the air smelt like creme brulee
Bloedel Reserve Pike Place Market The Pink Door
Tofino Botanical Gardens
Ah, Tofino. How I love thee. The surfing, the storms, the Sound (Clayoquot Sound, that is). Back in the summer of ’93, when I was a 17-year old idealist telling everyone I met to hug a tree, over 825 people were arrested for protesting the logging of Clayoquot Sound’s old growth forests. I caught wind […]
Cuba redux
Cuba. Ten days. Two very different experiences. Today I’ll write about the first: Havana. Both over and underwhelming, Havana is a city of conflict and wild contrast. Walk down one quaint cobblestone street in Habana Vieja (Old Havana), a UNESCO Heritage Site, and every building along it will be precisely restored, paint fresh, potted palms […]
Tuscan Farm Gardens
Like Girl Gone Gardening, I dream of owning a small farm. I’d grow my own organic produce, raise chickens and goats, sell eggs and veggies and bouquets of flowers at a roadside honesty stand, and have way too many cats. Sigh… Tuscan Farm Gardens is one couple’s version of that dream. Their 80 acre family […]
The revolution is fertile
Yippee, we’re going to Cuba! Ben and I have been attempting to go for years now, but one thing or another always prevented us. Now, in a spontaneous and daring manuver, we’ve booked a flight to Havana for mid-January. Of course, I started researching gardens immediately. They do have a botanical garden and several smaller […]
Heronswood
It’s kind of lame that I’ve never visited Heronswood, Dan Hinkley and Robert Jones’ Kitsap Penninsula, Washington nursery, especially since we’re only a couple hours away. I heard Dan speak at a Vancouver Rose Society talk a few years ago – he’s a delightful speaker. And from what I’ve heard and seen in photographs, the […]
The Eden Project
How cool is this? You know when, in sci-fi movies, an alien bacteria creates an inhospitable Earth, the heroes simply band together and create a biosphere-type orb out of plastic wrap that they can live in safely while repopulating the planet? Tim Smit, co-discoverer of The Lost Gardens of Heligan, who I’m beginning to think […]