CALIFORNIA Napa - Forty years ago Donn and Molly Chappellet arrived in California’s Napa Valley with five, soon-to- be-six, children in tow and a dream [...]
CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Bee count! It sounded too silly to be true. "Did you already count that one?" "I think it’s the one I [...]
NEW YORK Finger Lakes - It was the gilded age of grand rustic retreats enjoyed by the likes of the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Roosevelts who [...]
FLORIDA Orlando - Some 16 million people visit Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort each year, an average of 44,000 each day. All arrive anticipating a [...]
CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Lilies are the showoffs all summer at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a 22-acre garden near the hamlet of Glen Ellen in Sonoma [...]
CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - For nearly 50 years straddling the turn of the century, Luther Burbank’s display gardens in Santa Rosa. California stopped passersby in [...]
HAWAII Oahu - Patsy Fong is sorting ti leaves, hundreds of glossy green leaves piled according to size and quality. She works quickly, seemingly without [...]
ALASKA Anchorage - It’s not easy to have a green thumb when you live in Alaska. The garden just gets going and whammo it’s winter, [...]
CALIFORNIA San Francisco - Carola Ashford instructs a volunteer gardener, "Please defeather the iris." Trimming makes sense to me, for that is what one does [...]
CALIFORNIA Santa Rosa - Mary Frost keeps a list of sure-fire ways gardeners sabotage success in their home gardens. At the top is the notion [...]
