Last month, within five days, I explored two botanical gardens and each presented an artists’s work alongside the plants. On a Friday in...

“What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”—James Russell Lowell By the first of June sunrise occurs at 5:16...

“A little madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the king.”—Emily Dickinson Rhubarb, fiddleheads, ramps, arugula, and hummingbirds...

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in - what more could he ask?” Victor Hugo April is a sensual month. Everything is wakening....

‘It is most certainly in the mind and in dreams that most of the charms of March exist.” Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd Some say that April...

“Numerous as the world’s band of gardeners is, there should be more of us. Not just routing, but mad, keen gardeners.” Christopher Lloyd...

In England - Now! And after April, when May flowers... —Robert Browning This past year was not a time to travel, so I look back to May...

“It is a serious thing Just to be alive On this fresh morning In this broken world.” Mary Oliver On Monday morning, the twenty-first of...

“We are in November now - pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.” E. M. Forster As I write this it is another glorious...

“A perfect beauty of a sunflower! A perfect, excellent lovely sunflower existence! - Allen Ginsburg October is a vision of blue skies and...

“I believe in God, although I live very h appily with atheists…It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so...

“And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.” Beatrix Potter Along the roadsides and in the fields Queen Anne’s...