Happy Arbor Day

Hundred year old magnolias planted as seeds or cuttings in the Bishop's Close Garden in Portland Arbor Day is a national holiday in the ...

A lecture on April 10 in Eugene, Oregon

I will be giving my presentation called 'The Pleasure Garden' in Eugene at the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Hardy Plant Society ...

The Generalife

This essay is a continuation of the last one about the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.  In that essay we accomplished the equivalent of two days...