Bamboo from Around the World
Bamboo from around the world. Boats on the bamboo-fringed pond in the painter Monet’s famous garden in Giverny, France. A stand of bamboo in a Royal Tomb garden in Hue, Vietnam.Graffiti […]
Category Archives: Gardens
Dahlias in the Dublin Botanical Garden in Late September
Flowers and fun! September 20, 2015. Dublin managed to combine two of my favourite things, a botanical garden and an art gallery showing off plant-themed sculptures or creative interpretations of what it means […]
Medieval Gardens at the Feudal Castle in Fressin, France
The three medieval gardens dating back to the 15th century within the ruins of the Feudal Castle in Fressin are the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Evil and the Garden of Good. A three-dimensional […]
Orchids in the Garden
Singapore is THE place to see orchids. Even if you’re only picking up your luggage at the Singapore airport there is an orchid display on the midsection of the luggage carousels. And if […]
To Read in Holland: The Tulip Craze (and the First Financial Bubble)
1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]
Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden
The garden has a multitude of features, such as this suspension bridge leading to one of the many trails… These stairs that remind me of ruined pyramids… A ‘garden of memories’… And then there are […]
Washington State University ‘Discovery Garden’
The Washington State University ‘Discovery Garden’. For such a small space this garden really covers all the bases. I liked it because I have a small yard, and there were […]
