May 14, 2025
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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
Is the balcony a … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: Outdoor living spaces
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February 26, 2025
Photo: Haupt and Binder
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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Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Design, Lifestyle, Travel
Tags: BlogTour, BlogTour Milan, Italian palace gardens, Venice garden design. Contessa Anna Barnabò, Venice garden hostory, Venice garden tours, Venice gardens, Venice palace tours, Venice tourism, Venitian palaces
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February 25, 2025

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...
Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Public Gardens
Tags: European parks, Paris, Public Gardens, public parks
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February 21, 2025

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Updated 2025
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...
Category: Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Travel, Urban Agriculture
Tags: 18th century homes and gardens, heirloom vegetables, old salem, travel
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February 20, 2025
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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.
I was born to American … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: cherry blosooms, flower festivals
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June 6, 2024
Category: Container Gardening, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Public Gardens, Travel
Tags: art installations, botanical art, Girona, Spain, Temps de Flors Festival
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April 30, 2024
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...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Reclaimed & Recycled, Travel
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April 23, 2024
Diana Robinson, Flickr, Licensed by Creative Commons.
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...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Travel
Tags: north american tulips, tulip festivals
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March 29, 2024
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.
Photo: Jenny … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Design, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Indoor Gardening, Sky Planters, Vertical Gardens
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March 20, 2024

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...
Category: Finding
Tags: French antiques, French garden antiques, garden antiques, Provençal antiques, Provence
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