Counting bees – a first for Sonoma County
admin2020-01-07T10:08:32-08:00Bee count! It sounded too silly to be true. "Did you already count that one?" "I think it’s the one I counted as it buzzed [...]
Sonnenberg – gift from the “Gilded Age” today’s treasure
admin2020-02-19T16:01:07-08:00The gilded age of rustic retreats ... NEW YORK Finger Lakes - It was the gilded age of grand rustic retreats enjoyed by the likes [...]
The world according to Walt Disney – annual festival of flowers and gardens
admin2020-02-19T16:07:35-08:00FLORIDA 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 [...]
Quarryhill Botanical Garden – lilies are summer-long show offs
admin2020-02-19T16:10:51-08:00CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - Lilies are the showoffs all summer at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, a 22-acre garden near the hamlet of Glen Ellen in Sonoma [...]
Gold Ridge Farm – Luther Burbank’s other garden
admin2020-02-19T16:12:31-08:00CALIFORNIA Sonoma County - For nearly fifty years straddling the turn of the century, Luther Burbank’s display gardens in Santa Rosa. California stopped passersby in [...]
Senator Fong’s garden – native species thrive in a patch of paradise
admin2020-02-19T16:24:58-08:00One hundred ti leaves add up to a hula skirt ... HAWAII Oahu - Patsy Fong is sorting ti leaves, hundreds of glossy green leaves [...]
Bell’s Nursery – Anchorage’s “winter camp” for fuschias
admin2020-02-19T16:40:12-08:00ALASKA 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, [...]
Alcatraz – the rock has bloomed for over 100 years
admin2020-02-22T11:34:21-08:00CALIFORNIA San Francisco - Carola Ashford instructs a volunteer gardener, "Please defeather the iris." Trimming makes sense to me, for that is what one does [...]
Mary Frost’s garden – a guiding hand for the beginning gardener
admin2020-02-22T11:51:15-08:00CALIFORNIA Santa Rosa - Mary Frost keeps a list of sure-fire ways gardeners sabotage success in their home gardens. At the top is the notion [...]
Tulip time – Holland, Michigan has its tulips down pat
admin2020-02-22T11:52:15-08:00Five million tulips on display ... Ah, to be in Holland, now that tulip time is here. Holland, Michigan, that is. And the time to [...]