Walking around the garden today, I was struck yet again by the variety of flower and foliage textures and sizes. There are plants with huge ...

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn/ Stand, shadowless like Silence, listening to Silence." ~ Thomas Hood. "There is no seaso...

It's been a few years since my fascination with ornamental grasses began. I started out slowly, with a couple of Miscanthus varieties, t...

For Skywatch Friday this week, another juxtaposition of sea and sky, sun and land. The boldness of autumn light is officially upon us, and ...

With all the weather scudding around these days, my gaze isn't turned so often skyward as it is to the colourful flourishes in my garden...

The beginning of aster season is always one that finds me with a mixture of delight and dread. The delight, of course, comes from the fact t...