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Photos on the Road

Saxon Holt — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:03:40 +0000

Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? This is the dilemma of any garden photographer when traveling or going into a garden that you may never get to see again. How do you get some kind of picture worth sharing, something beyond the snapshot that serves as a [...]

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The Birthplace of Better Homes & Gardens

Debra Lee Baldwin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:00:41 +0000

James Baggett (right), the editor I freelance for at Country Gardens magazine, has long legs. Fortunately I do too, or I would have been running during a tour he gave of Meredith Corporation’s headquarters in Des Moines last week. There was a lot to see and not nearly enough time; the facility encompasses 180,000 square [...]

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South African Adventure

Debra Lee Baldwin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:58:10 +0000

One of the great things about being a horticulturist specializing in succulents is that I’m part of a worldwide community of like-minded enthusiasts. Case in point is an email I received this week from Jeremy Proctor, who lives in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. He had visited South Africa and sent me a link to [...]

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Why My Journey To Ecuador’s Rainforest Left An Imprint On Me .. and a BIG Holiday Giveaway..

Fran Sorin — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 07:18:50 +0000

In my last post, I showed photos of the time I spent in the Andes Mountains with an indigenous community. When we got on the bus and waved goodbye, after being recipients of their hospitality and warmth for 2 days, I didn’t want to leave. I felt that spending another week on the land and [...]

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Gardening en Español, a green roof and other notes from Uruguay

Noel Kingsbury — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:35:56 +0000

For the third time in five years I’m lecturing in Spanish-speaking America (you can read my accounts of lecturing in Mexico here, and here – that was an experience!) . Being interpreted (see my recent post about Argentina). We always have the same discussion – why aren’t there more books and material on gardening in [...]

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How My Journey To An Indigenous Community in Ecuador Gave Me A Deeper Appreciation of Nature

Fran Sorin — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:26:56 +0000

I returned this Thursday from a 2 week journey in Ecuador. Since I’m still grappling with how to use words to write about this powerful journey, in this post I’m using photos to tell a story. The first leg of the trip was spending 2 days at San Clemente, an indigenous- owned community based project [...]

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Succulent Extravaganza Recap

Debra Lee Baldwin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:30:40 +0000

See the seahorse? It’s sempervivums planted in vertical panels. This was one of many lovely and unusual sights at the second annual Succulent Extravaganza at Succulent Gardens nursery in Castroville, CA last week. A terrace at the nursery is planted with Agave ‘Blue Glow’ (foreground) and Agave ‘Blue Flame’ (background). One-third of my forthcoming book, [...]

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A new look at the potager – Cambo innovates again

Noel Kingsbury — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:08:15 +0000

The potager – that ornamental version of the vegetable garden was always a bit precious. Too many people had visited Chateau Villandry on the Loire and thought they could do a mini-version. The results were all too often a neurotic assemblage of over-controlled vegetables that no-one dare harvest as it would spoil the picture. I [...]

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I’m Liking Lichen

Debra Lee Baldwin — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:41:13 +0000

My husband and I had the lake in Colorado, at 11,000 feet elevation, to ourselves except for occasional hikers a mile away—colorful specks on a timberline trail whose voices carried in the thin air. While Jeff fished, although I wasn’t bored exactly, I began noticing lichens. I’m here to tell you, Rocky Mountain lichens are [...]

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Whimsy and Provocation

Saxon Holt — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:51:44 +0000

We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lesson to bring you some breaking news. While I was writing this lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, controversy erupted. Provocation in the world of gardens and art ! National scandal in “hip, pretentious art” at the Berkeley Botanical Garden where an on-site art exhibit using recycled [...]

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