Garden History
Medicinals are not the only tropicals that David McLean grows in his mile long rain forest like nursery in Davie, Florida. It’s just that the plants he wanted to show me first were all medicinals. Like African tropical oregano, beautiful variegated leaves. The Australian tea tree, its oil used as an antibiotic during World War […]
After dinner last night we strolled along Las Olas, the walk of walks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There I discovered Ann’s Florist. This morning I was there by 10:30 am to take an inside view of the windows I saw last night. She has the best silk flowers I’ve seen. Maybe because there were a […]
Here in Broward County, home of Fort Lauderdale what does everyone do when they want to beat the sun? They go to Sawgrass Mills, probably the second largest tourist attraction behind Disney World in Florida. Today we went there twice. I will not bore you with details except for the one here in the picture. […]
The Bonnet House, named for the bonnet lily that grows there, is situated on a a barrier island in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mangroves on one side and the AIA (Ocean Boulevard), public beaches and blue, blue, blue Atlantic Ocean on the other. The plantation style house is built of cinderblock from the local sand […]
Further up the coast of Oregon from Cannon Beach is the town of Astoria, once know for its canning industry. The homes cling to its rocky slopes as you wind your way up to the point where you can see the Columbia River to the left and the Pacific Ocean straight ahead. The Columbia […]
This is something worth flying to Portland,Oregon to see, (besides your dear childhood friend) then driving 70 miles to the beach. A lava formation that stands 235 feet tall, it just sticks out of the water like Mont St. Michel on the Normandy Coast of France. Only it’s not inhabitated by a living thing just seagulls […]
