Traveling Without Animals
Traveling Without Animals
A traveling garden reporter in summery England has a great life - zooming through the countryside on trains and buses, visiting new gardens, making new gardening friends, experiencing the (wet) English weather. What could be more heart-and-mind-warming?
My Holiday Part Two
My lovely holiday continues. I go to North Devon for some English countryside - and then zoom under the English Channel on a train to Belgium. Just a little rain... falling from the skies...
Circle of life
Chateau de la Hulpe
When recently in Europe my gardening friend took me to one of her magical walking places - le Chateau de la Hulpe, in Brussels. We sauntered around in the gentle rain, on paths flanked by forests of flowering rhododendrons.
This billboard in downtown Seattle provides us with a universal message: When all is said and done, we regret more what we 
When iced tea was introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World s Fair, Americans fell in love with it. In fact, iced tea became a status symbol. A perfectly brewed pitcher of tea was the mark of a successful hostess. Women s magazines provided tips on how to brew tea correctly, and offered recipes for Tea Punch a sweet beverage for summer tennis and golf gatherings.
Many of the best gardens are planned around the kitchen table on cold winter nights as people gather to page through the seed catalogs arriving now in stacks as deep as snowdrifts.