This Week in the Garden – Ginormous Lantern Festival
July 5th, 2012Missouri Botanical Garden – Largest Chinese Lantern Festival ever in the United States. These are not small lanterns, some are three stories tall. The 137 foot long entrance dragon welcomes visitors to the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Lantern Festival. It is called Art by Day and Magic by Night. And it certainly is. I first saw […]
This Week in the Garden – Sacred Lotus
June 28th, 2012Missouri Botanical Garden
Wordless Wednesday – This week in my garden
June 6th, 2012
Winter Reminds Me of White – Sissinghurst Garden Inspiration
January 19th, 2012The white garden at Sissinghurst Castle is in the most visited garden in England.Created by writer, gardener and lover of Virginia Wolff, Vita Sackville-West and her husband designed garden “rooms” in the ruins of their home at Sissinghurst Castle. The white garden is perhaps the most famous garden room with its all white blooms and […]
Monet’s Garden & Art Magic
October 21st, 2011I visited Monet’s garden at Giverny in the fall. I also visited the large waterlily pond paintings in the Paris museum designed by Monet to display them. Seeing both was the most powerful art and garden experience I ever had.
Touching Infinity in A Garden For The Soul
August 13th, 2011“When I touch a flower… I am touching infinity”, is the George Washington Carver quote in my garden. Seeing and touching the infinite in the mandala shape of a flower is what draws me to the garden.
