Atlanta Botanical Garden

Atlanta Botanical Garden

You can imagine my surprise at seeing an exhibition of Northwest glass artist Dale Chihuly’s work while visiting the Atlanta Botanical Garden recently. I’ve been to the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle and to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma… but I sure didn’t expect to see his beautiful work in Atlanta! (although I’m not too sure why not, […]

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Sept. 7 travel article: Pennsylvania gardens

Look at these gorgeous Victoria lily pads at Longwood Gardens! Wow. It’s two-fer Sunday! In addition to my garden column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review (see post), I also wrote a travel article about our trip to see the amazing Pennsylvania gardens. Here’s a link to it: A gardener’s vacation. Hope you’ll enjoy the photos that accompany it as […]

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Spinach and leaf miners

We interrupt the travelogues with some interesting fall garden information. (at least, I think it’s interesting even though it’s about those annoying insects, leaf miners) Today, my husband and I harvested the last of our root crops — potatoes, carrots and parsnips — and I picked a bunch of spinach and lettuce from my fall garden bed. I wrote a […]

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