Competitive Rose Photography
Capturing the beauty of roses for a show takes care and attention to detail. Knowing how to present your blooms in the best light can make all the difference.
Outsmarting Weeds & Invasive Plants
A wise equation of plant identification, focused controls, and prioritization can add up to a lot less work when trying to build a new rose garden.
10 Tips to Add Roses Into Your Perennial Garden
We love roses and want everyone to love them, too. Here are a few tips to help you get started adding roses to your perennial garden.
Integrating roses into your landscape
With proper planning of your design plus some routine maintenance, you can enjoy the mixed beauty of roses all the way into October in the Pacific Northwest.
Welcome CatBot
Let’s welcome the new CatBot: Click on the small image in the bottom corner & a chat will pop up. Using text, ask your questions about gardens, roses, & travel.
The Rainbow Man and 109 E. Palace
Welcome, your feet have found a path to the entry point used by the first men and women working on a little secret called Project Y on a plateau in Los Alamos.
100 years of Kandinsky
Kandinsky was an influential Bauhaus artist and art theorist, who created a complex and psychological theory about how color and shape impact human emotion.
Rebuilding America’s rose garden
Rose growing in America is rapidly changing, and so is America’s Rose Garden in Shreveport . Here’s a glimpse into the recent changes at the ARS headquarters.
My pilgrimage to the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Barcelona: The Sagrada Familia is well known for its audacious Art Nouveau vision & spectacular construction elements. It’s a rare pilgrimage you should make.
A Return to the Victory Garden
Don’t just hide away from the outdoors during the Covid quarantine – start a Victory Garden in your yard. 5 ideas to start up your healthy vegetable garden.
Packing the most into a small rose garden
Just because you may have less space than the imagined acre of your dream house, don’t think you can’t make your current yard attractive. Especially in 2020.
It’s 2020 – tear out your lawn!
Despite its traditional American status as a family playground, many of us are ripping out our lawns. Here’s why they are obsolete and how to reclaim the space.
Rose Gardening for the Birds
Most good wild bird nesting sites require good leaf cover, correctly shaped twig structures that fit the bird, & finally a location 5-10 feet off the ground.
8 Advanced Garden Design Principles
These 8 agreed-upon rules have proven invaluable over years of garden-making by many people. If used, they will result in a more successful, satisfying design.
Where should I plant my roses?
Consider these 5 basic criteria for locating your rose patch. Roses need 6 hours of full sun from February to October to grow & bloom well with little disease.
Balconies of Valletta
Have you discovered a Gallarija? I’ve become enchanted by these enclosed balconies above the doorways & shops in Valletta, capitol city of the island of Malta.
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