I’ve been reading about French gardens, but I spent the winter in Denmark. Spoiled by water. Reading water, listening to water, smelling...

I waited weeks for the lemon colored dogtooth violet to bloom and then it did. The silky leaves came first, light green and floppy, and...

Watering pansies, ruffled deep blue or purple, and Elizabeth, my neighbor, recites the names of all the flowers--"panzee" like a...