One of my all time favorite movies is without a doubt Alice in Wonderland!  It is such a magical and mysterious video, that I simply adore it.  One of my favorite scenes in the movie is the infamous garden scene where they perform “All in the Golden Afternoon”. The flowers of Wonderland show Alice how [...]

On a recent visit to Portland, my husband and I stopped by the Rose Gardens in Portland. It seemed like a logical thing to do, after all, Portland is known as the city of Roses. We had a delicious brunch on that Sunday, and then headed in the direct of the gardens for a day [...]

The Luxembourg Gardens are located in Paris France in the heart of the Left Bank. A 60-acre park known for its extraordinary public amenities, including fountains, sculpture, ponds, flowerbeds, tennis courts, pony rides, a marionette theatre, playgrounds, food kiosks and open-air cafes. The Luxembourg Garden attracts visitors all over the world and is a garden [...]

The Exbury Gardens & Steam Railway are located in New Forest, England.  These magnificant gardens attract people from all over the world to admire the most amazing beauty Mother Nature has to offer. The Gardens are spread over a spectacular 200 acre site and contain the world-famous Rothschild Collection of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and rare [...]

The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Gardens are not only an educational place to visit, but also a very beautiful.  The Memorial Garden and Nature Center was designed by the Internationally known Jens Jensens in the 1930s, the Lincoln Memorial Gardens are planted with native species from the three states Lincoln lived in: Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. [...]

The Yu Yuan Gardens are over 400 years old and were built by the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Jia Jin. These remarkable gardens attract tourists and locals year after year. They are a remarkable and gorgeous representation of a southern Chinese-style garden. It features four highlights that are the following: Sansui Hall, [...]

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed by many garden enthusiasts as being one of the few great botanical gardens in the world. Kirstenbosch was established in 1913 to promote the lush and diverse flora of southern Africa. Today therea re over 7,000 species in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, including many rare and threatened species. Kirstenbosch is [...]

Claude Monet is one of my all time favorite artists. His use of colors and master of Impressionism has left his handprint on my heart! I had the pleasure of seeing an exhibit in Los Angeles called from “Monet to Manet”. It was amazing and a day I will never forget. Claude Monet’s garden is [...]

The Rikugien Garden is a Tokyo metropolitan park in Bunkyo-ku built around 1700. Japan-Guide.come states “Rikugien literally means ‘six poems garden’ and reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems.” This amazing garden features a central pond, island, forested area, man made hills and several teahouses. When walking at a leisurely pace, one should be [...]

The Boboli Gardens are located in Florence, Italy behind the beautiful Pitti Palace. The main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, are some of the most well known 16th century Italian gardens. The Boboli Gardens were laid out for Eleonaora di Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici. Since that [...]