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I'm Yvonne Horn, a professional full-time travel writer and photographer. Contact me at: [email protected]. I'd [...]
Luther Burbank
For nearly 50 years straddling the turn of the 20th century, Luther Burbank’s experimental gardens [...]
Vasa Museum Garden enters lives of long-gone sailors
SWEDEN Stockholm - The Vasa was a magnificent ship. Decorated with symbolic sculptures and carvings, [...]
Sonnenberg – gift from the “Gilded Age” today’s treasure
NEW YORK Finger Lakes - It was the gilded age of grand rustic retreats enjoyed [...]
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
I think of myself as an intrepid traveler, but I'm no match for Mary Henrietta [...]
Tanto Allotment Gardens – Stockholm’s green-thumbers dig in
Stepping into a storybook ... SWEDEN Stockholm - Had I stepped into a storybook? Cute-as-a-button [...]
Annual garden festival Walt Disney World style
FLORIDA Orlando - Some 16 million people visit Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort each year, [...]
Quarryhill Botanical Garden – lilies are summer-long show offs
CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Lilies are the showoffs all summer at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a [...]
Gold Ridge Farm – Luther Burbank’s other garden
CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - For nearly 50 years straddling the turn of the century, Luther [...]
Senator Fong’s garden – native species thrive in a patch of paradise
HAWAII Oahu - Patsy Fong is sorting ti leaves, hundreds of glossy green leaves piled [...]
Bell’s Nursery – Anchorage’s “winter camp” for fuschias
ALASKA Anchorage - It’s not easy to have a green thumb when you live in [...]
Alcatraz – the rock has bloomed for over 100 years
CALIFORNIA San Francisco - Carola Ashford instructs a volunteer gardener, "Please defeather the iris." Trimming [...]
Panama’s colorful, flowering oasis – Boguete
Boquete's fairgrounds, held alongside the sparkling Rio Caldera, is abundant with flowers during each [...]
El Charco del Ingenio – derelict canyon turned botanical treasure
MEXICO San Miguel de Allende - San Miguel de Allende was just another Mexican, sleepy, [...]
Il Biviere – the garden that wasn’t
ITALY Sicily - While others search out museums and cathedrals when traveling, I search out [...]