I’ve enjoyed photographing today at the Portland Japanese Garden. The garden bills itself as the most beautiful Japanese garden outside of Japan. This may well be true, and it may…
Yesterday I built a small spiral in our garden below a specimen Japanese maple tree. I constructed the spiral using small rocks as the border for an aggregation of miniature…
Yesterday I decided that my Serpentine Sunflower (Helianthus bolanderi) was getting a bit "long in the tooth" (insert favorite joke about serpents and teeth here). Indoors, I deconstructed the sunflower…
Noted photographer and botanical artist Harold Davis shares a visit with his garden. This is the garden that he uses as source material for many of his light box images…
In specifying Bamboo for our garden for our garden I learned a great deal about this marvelous plant. There are over 1,200 species of Bamboo. They grow by sending up…
It's my enchanted, secret garden. I've been having a great deal of fun planning, planting, and enjoying our new garden in what was formerly a waste-land of a backyard. Here…
My garden is in full bloom, and the new enchanted garden is exciting. The whole ensemble is so peaceful and serene that it is a little hard to motivate myself…
We're making serious progress on our backyard garden project. The demolition stage is completely finished. The "hardscaping" is mostly done, and the rock "fountain" installed and working (the rocks around…