Mistaken Identity
I can now laugh at the first time a label fooled me in a botanic garden (gosh is really 35 years ago ?), when I [...]
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
My excuse to visit the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has nothing to do with the inside of the recently renovated museum. I wanted to see [...]
Why Self-Publish
View 1: Looking north - California estate with native plant garden A colleague who supports my work told me recently: "I am working with [...]
Tough Plants – Tough Climates
Dawn in the Zambrano garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico I try to treat every garden I visit with a sense of wonder, open to [...]
Underground in New Mexico
The Gopher Holes - Saxon in Wonderland The Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico has a most clever Children's Garden. Short of [...]
1.6 – Photos Tell a Story
A good garden photograph is more than a pleasing composition. It should communicate something of the photographer’s appreciation of the garden—some insight or provocation. [...]
Stuffed Photos
Alert ! I have truly made the big time. Amy Stewart, at Garden Rant called me out, first admiring my Grasses book as garden porn and then pokes me: "Hey [...]