Last week I shared a few of my favorite yellow variegated plants, the soft ones. The ones that don't want to draw blood or poke your eye out. This week stand back, grab a band-aid and (hopefully) enjoy as we look at the spikes... This gorgeous Agave lophantha was a...
Touring a gorgeous garden is always a nice way to spend an hour or so – but when things get personal, and you discover the gardener shares a passion of yours, well, it’s even better. I bet you can guess what passion I am referring to? While on a blogger’s pre-tour for...
It started with an innocent comment on Facebook. I mentioned I’m running out of space in my garden, and with no big projects this year I wasn’t sure where all the plants I'll have to buy this season were going to go. Grace encouraged me to think about planting in...
Visiting botanical gardens is the main reason to travel, right? Right. Sometimes my traveling companions do not understand this fact. While my sister was spending a year in Rome, I went for a visit. Our first day in Rome, she gave me a very nice tour of the city along...