Urban Gardens

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Even city dwellers with limited outdoor space can maximize functionality by transforming those small footprints into areas with multiple uses for gardening, cooking, relaxing, and entertaining.

From Greenery to Gathering Spot
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Updated February 2025

From the street, I would have never guessed that hidden behind centuries-old plaster walls and tall wooden doors marked 3201, I would find a magnificent narrative of Venetian history, art, and culture.

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The view looking down into the park from the entrance above.

Updated April 2025

The scent of aromatic plants wafted in the air as I climbed the steps near the Place de la Bastille to reach the world’s first elevated … Read More...

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Although Old Salem is just a 10-minute drive from Winston-Salem, it is centuries away from this contemporary urban center.

Visitors to the historic North Carolina town travel back more than 250 years to experience 100 of America’s … Read More...

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In Japanese culture, cherry blossoms symbolize the transient nature of life, a reflection of the Buddhist concept known as “mono no aware,” which recognizes that there is both beauty and mortality in life.

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Artist Barry Lungu’s painting of Jacarand trees in bloom in Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Artgal.online.

Art and beauty live in physical landmarks and museums and also in the expressions of natural wonders, culture, history, and creativity that local artists bring … Read More...

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Contemplating tulips conjures images of Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, and blue Delft pottery, which makes sense because the Netherlands produces 90 percent of the world’s tulips—4.3 billion bulbs annually on about 27,182 … Read More...

Photo: Jenny Pore. Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

For about three weeks every year, cascades of brilliant orange nasturtiums spill down from the Venetian balconies in the courtyard at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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Known for her popular French cooking school, At Home in France, and revered for decades as one of the most influential personalities in the culinary world, Patricia Wells and her husband, Walter, welcome guests to Chanteduc, their farmhouse home … Read More...