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I am lucky enough to live just a few hours from the San Diego Zoo and have visited it many times over the last 15 years.Being a veterinarian interested in exotic animals, it has been one of my favorite destinations in southern California.However in recent...

The stream is built into a natural ravine and like a natural stream, starts out small amid a rocky streambed and sycamore grove, then widens and smooths out before cascading into the pond via a waterfall.

A typical medieval garden, as represented in medieval manuscript paintings, was enclosed by a wall, fence, trellis or hedge, and generally subdivided into neat geometric units with straight paths in between.The earliest firsthand gardening account comes...

Lombard also encourages the planting of lilacs in public and private locations througout the village and gives advice on the culture of these shrubs. On a visit to France, the colonel admired the French hybrid lilacs in the Lemoine Gardens in Nancy and...

It's such a beautiful place on the Black Sea Coast!For more information about Queen Marie and her Gardens , here are a few links and videos. There were many hugewere on the left terraces.

Ornamental ironwork has a long history of tradition in New Orleans.We viewed many beautiful garden hanging baskets cascading from the decorative balconies.because they were so high up; we did notice plenty ofare just a few more of the over 500 plant species...

Therefore roses are intertwined with other plants such as lavender, irises, columbines, horsetails, fennels, rosemary, rose mallows and different grasses which give a feeling of wild nature while an expert eye can see the whole work and thoughts behind...

The day I visited, the garden featured topiary dinosaurs,, a sensory garden, and a small pond with miniatureand a tiny bridge. The Four Seasons garden also changes with the seasons, as symbolized by the statues of the Seasons in the niches of the black...

His shrine at Breuil is still a destination for pilgrims seeking relief from ailments. This was broadened to include all of gardening. Supposedly, the woman's jealousy caused Fiacre to implement a ban on women from his monastery.

The names of the cats that have been buried at the Hemingway Home are engraved in concrete stones.Most who tour the Hemingway home and beautiful gardens come away enamored with the cats.

They were touring East Africa's lakes and waterfalls from a plane. On Whitehead Street in Key West, you'll find a Spanish colonial house with big, shuttered windows and several dozen polydactyl cats wandering freely about the home and beautifully kept...

Still, plantaholic that I am, even taxi rides were naturally a chance to look for botanical specimens both familiar (redbud treees, cyclamen, planetrees, roses) and unfamiliar (palm trees, towering pines, those things with big spiky leaves and not yet...

I particularly enjoyed the Idea garden, but stole ideas from all locations.Every year I also delight in new display beds at a local garden center (Hornbaker Gardens in Illinois). On top is a stone lantern, perfect for a Japanese-inspired garden.

There are some Memory Gardens, some Celebration Gardens and a few Just Cuz Gardens. Our Public Garden is well used, and well loved, and bigger than it seems.There are Public or Botanical or Community Gardens in so many places, and they have so very much...

With a sigh, I expressed my desire to have something like that in the desert. I was no longer visiting a beautiful public garden; I was an adventurer and explorer unearthing all the treasures the desert has to offer.

The companion's main interest was photographic opportunities, so she was easy to please as far as location. It was a pleasure to stroll through and view everything, even the ones I would never, ever eat.

Apple fritters waiting in the car were our delicious blood-sugar boosting reward for the long day of walking, talking and taking pictures.The main Flower Garden Walk, Pierce's Woods and a third treehouse were among the sites we'll have to catch next time.On...

The spider is clearly a generalized Agriope type, one of the most realistic figures in the entire exhibit.The ladybug seems to be one of the favorites with the children, and they easily recognize it, despite its being one of the least realistic in appearance...

The highlight of the trip for my boys was digging in their Fossil Hunt area, a raised bed filled with smooth pea gravel and models of dinosaur bones.area was my favorite, as it lent the most inspiration for the home gardener working on a smaller scale.

Alnwick Garden is very child-friendly, and there is also a popular bamboo maze and eight water sculptures hidden among serpentine yew hedges.At the base of the cascade is the Poison Garden which is enclosed by walls and almost hidden by imposing iron...

Click for more Daves Garden information aboutAll pictures are by the author, with the permission of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Henry Shaw had his home here before donating the land and his gardens.

Sometimes open sewage ran in the streets. It sounds precarious and dangerous but the worst that happens is that the candle blows out and the best - oh! the best is when families parade around the mile-and-a-half long pond with their lanterns, so that...

Once the homes of diamond merchants, many of them are now office buildings or apartments.The park has a total of six playgrounds for children. The way he said "you are a regular visitor!" was strangely pleasing to me, as I am so very fond of the city...

Mary Orcutt chose the symbol because it is a traditional southwestern Native American symbol and she wanted the three historic cultures of the southwest - Native, Mexican, and Spanish - commemorated in the house.Most of the original property has been...

It really wasn't a surprise then to my husband, who would rather be deep-sea fishing, that I would drag him through the countryside looking at the scenery. The small wheel-shaped facility may take only 30 minutes or so to view but if you plan on photographing...

Nicolaus.Special thanks to the communications office and Annemarie Gerard for arranging an unforgettable tour with master gardener Andre Beijk. The riot of color in this space almost seems at odds with the cool elegance of individual sprays of orchid...

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