The best time for garden photography is the soft light of early morning after dawn, or late afternoon at dusk. However that is not always possible, especially if you are visiting a public garden. I wrote a post here a couple years ago “Photos on the Road” about a trip to Norfolk Botanic Garden when [...]
Weddings and old fashioned flowers seem to go hand in hand. So it is a wonderful new trend in the floral industry that local flower farmers are now being sought out as an alternative to commercial greenhouse and imported flowers. Even more cool, my daughter Annie found a local farmer in Virginia for her own [...]
Recently an editor asked me if I had any bold flowers on black background. Rather than going through my files looking for something to transform with Photoshop I decided to shoot a new photo. It’s the height of the season after all. Clematis ‘Dr. Ruppel’ has just coming into full spring glory, twining up into [...]
When the international flower industry gets together in California to show off what’s new, I’m there. The gardener in me revolts. The Gardening Gone Wild side chokes. In any practical realm, this does not compute. How does this massive display apply to any reality in the gardening world? Ahh, but the whole thing provokes. Acres [...]
It’s Spring ! At least here in California. Since many friends across the country are still thawing out, how about we go looking for a photo in my garden? My pink dogwood tree, Cornus florida ‘Cherokee Chief’, is putting on quite a show. ‘Finding the Photo’ is a classic lesson from my Workshop series. I [...]