Galloping galanthophiles! It’s snowdrop time in Scotland
by Yvonne Horn
“Take the path to the sea,” the man in the blue, woolly sweater advised. “It’s quite a lovely walk.”
“Are you the head gardener?” I asked.
Gardens
Poison Garden a head twirler at Alnwick Castle
by Yvonne Horn
In Dublin’s fair city: St. Stephen’s Green
by Yvonne Horn
Recommended in London
I took a trip to London in July ’08 with my mother and two sons and wish to highly recommend the area around Earls Court tube station both for restaurants and for the accessibility to Heathrow from there. There are a number of 3-star hotels in the area, as well.
We enjoyed our stay at the Best Western Burns Hotel (1826 Barkston Gardens; www.burnshotel.co.uk). A hot English breakfast was included in the rate of £98 (near $183) for a double room. This was a pay-ahead, nonrefundable rate; the walk-in rate was £165 per double.
A budding affection for Boquete
by Yvonne Horn
Chelsea Physic Garden
by Yvonne Michie Horn
Interpreting the past in the Vasa garden
by Yvonne Michie Horn
Koke-dera: Kyoto’s garden muffled in moss
Moss gone amuck was not intended to be the garden’s definitive element when Muso Soseki, 14th-century Zen priest and famed garden designer, created the gardens surrounding Saiho-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. That would come centuries later, muffling a design rare and original for its time: a garden intended to be enjoyed for its idealized earthly beauty, not as a religious exercise.
Monkeys in Kuala Lumpur
It was another hot, steamy and sunny afternoon in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, as we were making our way out of the Lake Gardens district about two miles from the Petronas Towers.