Quote for Today: Edward Thomas
Digging To-day I think Only with scents,- scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot’s seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade …
Psychedelic Ecosystem: The Elephant’s Garden
Come take an artistic walk on the wild side where the sublime meets the brutal. Refreshingly honest, beautiful and whimsical! The life of any ecosystem depends on the death and sacrifice …
Quote for Today: Wilkie Collins
I haven’t much time to be fond of anything … but when I have a moment’s fondness to bestow, most times … the roses get it. I began my life among them …
Reinventing Ninfa: Il Giardino di Ninfa, Part 2
The 17th century saw the death of ancient Ninfa, once sacred to water nymphs. Has she returned to those roots? Earlier this week, we spoke of the tumultuous history of …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of …
Quote for Today: Rosalie Parker
“You’re not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don’t know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what …
Beneath the Garden: Il Giardino di Ninfa, Part 1
Forty miles from Rome, the ancient city of Ninfa has been overtaken by a lush garden. What stories hide here? In the Latina province of the Lazio region of central …
Quote for Today: Helen Humphreys
What I’ve always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, …
Quote for Today: Michael Pollan
In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens — a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree …
Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was …