These palms have an inner glow that warms the soul.

Patterns and Politics

Plants, Travel8 Comments

  For the last week I’ve been enjoying warm snow-free days on Kiawah Island, a vacation spot off the coast of South Carolina. One of the joys of being here (apart from the weather, of course) is seeing plants I can’t identify. This isn’t because they are rare, it’s because they are unfamiliar, and in vacation…

After a first pruning, the shrub was looking vaguely like a large bonsai.

The Gravel Garden

Design, Glen Villa, Plants9 Comments

  Beside our house, next to a wooden deck that is rarely used, is a juniper planted when the house was built in 1969. Or to put it more accurately, beside the house and next to the deck are the remains of one. For the last few years, the juniper has been slowly dying. The photo below shows how…