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Rock Art by Thomas D Kent, Jr This is funny. Glenn Eichler wrote an open letter to the New York Botanical Garden in 2014 in the New Yorker...

Our natural inclination, when in a group, is to gather in a circle. The ineluctable unity of this shape gives each person equal standing, eq...

Is gardening like writing? This is what Carl Lennertz of HarperCollins Publishing wrote in his blog Publishing Insider : "....every 5 ...

Lost by David Wagoner Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must tre...

“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognize it.” ― Okakura Kakuzō , The Book of Tea

If small is beautiful then....smaller must be more beautiful. At least that is what I tell myself as I survey my postage stamp of a backyard...

Aphrodite - August Lily Hosta (photo - Jan Johnsen) The old fashioned 'August Lily' (Hosta plataginea) is a magnificent fragrant, w...

by Dominique Lafourcade “A garden is first and foremost a work of art, with the garden playing the roles of architect, sculptor, musician...

Jan Johnsen garden and photo - Heaven is a Garden Jill Sell of the Cleveland Plain Dealer just wrote a lovely review of my book, ...

glass wind chimes close up Sound is an overlooked element in landscape design . When we think of sound in a garden we think of birds s...

photo by J. Johnsen Green in a garden speaks to us on a visceral level. The message it sends is one of ultimate calm. Associated with h...