Veddw, Vedda, Fedw: from 1534 to 1947, the spelling has changed but the sound has remained much the same.

Veddw House Garden

  I’m in England now, about to start on a ten-day garden tour. With my co-host Julia Guest of Travel Concepts in Vancouver, I will take a small group of women to the southwest of England.  But before hitting the road, let me whet your appetite with a review of an extraordinary garden I visited pre-tour. Veddw is…

The angle of this photo tells you how hard I was working at leaning back and doing nothing.

Thinking about Gardens

After a short but enjoyable holiday in Florida, I’m back in Quebec. Moving from one weather system to another that is radically different strains the body and provokes obvious questions. Why leave ocean breezes for frozen lakes, or blue skies and green palm trees for white snow and grey skies?     It is cold here.…