The Garden Path
Paris’ hidden garden
The expanse of sculpted white marble titled “The Poet’s Dream” struck me as pretty awful.
The Butchart Gardens
Tulips, tulips and more tulips were the undisputed stars of The Butchart Gardens this day in mid-April 2013 on Vancouver Island, Canada. Tulips edged beds, outlined paths and admired their reflections in ponds, thanks to the importation of 300,000 bulbs from Holland each year.
Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan
It was February 16, 1990. Only the tops of palm trees gave a hint of what might lay beneath.
National Kandawgyi Gardens, Myanmar
During Myanmar’s colonial-British era, Maymyo — named “May Town” after Colonel May, then in charge of the 5th Light Infantry of the Bengal Army — offered a cool “hillside station” retreat from lowland Mandalay’s oppressive summer heat.
South Devon’s ‘secret’ Blackpool Gardens
In May 2003 I traipsed behind Geoffrey Newman on a weeklong trek with The Wayfarers titled “Dorset Gardens: Rambles and Roses” (April ’04, pg. 42).
St. Michael’s Mount, England
If the tide is out, you can walk a quarter-mile cobblestone causeway to St. Michael’s Mount. Don’t worry if you linger on your tour of the castellated mansion atop this tidal island, a mirror image of Normandy’s famed Mont-St-Michel directly across the English Channel.
Te Kainga Marire, New Zealand’s ‘peaceful encampment’
Walking the undulating paths of Te Kainga Marire, through an idyllic landscape of native New Zealand plants, it came as a bit of a jolt to peer through the foliage and see a next-door neighbor’s quite ordinary-looking backyard.
Colonial history comes alive at Kings Landing
KINGS LANDING, New Brunswick — For over 200 years, the buildings that make up Kings Landing Historical Settlement served well those living in Canada’s St. John River Valley.
Reichenau’s medieval medicinal garden
An Alps-backed setting, fairy-tale villages and a benign climate have long contributed to Lake Constance’s reputation as a compelling southern Germany travel destination.