Waiting for Magnolias
Outside the Trust Cottage in the Dunn Gardens where I live, is a mature magnolia, Sargent’s Magnolia. It’s a bit easier to say than the Latin (Magnolia sargentia var robusta). Its…
Thoughts About Valentine’s Day
In the very practical country and times in which I grew up in New Zealand, Valentine’s Day was not celebrated. So, when my husband and I moved to the US…
Stalwarts in the Snow
I was living on site, and it was a no brainer I would wander Dunn Gardens and capture the 2017 Christmas snow as my meager photography skills allowed.
End of Year Thoughts
The end of the year is time to gather up the memories of the past year and we have our share in the Dunn Gardens. 2017 has been full of…
Winter Solstice
At Dunn Gardens we are coming up on our Winter Solstice Stroll, one of our flat out most loved events. If we are really honest, we are cheating and holding…
A Nobel and a Nonprofit
In 2017, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in economics for pointing out that people frequently behave irrationally, but consistently so, when dealing with money.
Downsizing is More Than a Verb
The word downsize, to make smaller, comes to mind as the flowers fade and the leaves in the garden change color. Nature is in the midst of her yearly ritual…
Thinking About Trees
I began thinking about trees, initially because they were absent and later because they were large. Bruce and I took a summer holiday in the UK in the course of…
Lavender Wands and More
Lavender is to herbs what roses are to flowers: an aristocratic bloom that has fascinated people over the centuries. Besides the distinctive, beguiling smell and the wow factor when looking…
A Picnic at the Dunn
The Dunn is joining a long established tradition of holding a picnic in the garden. Our particular one is in August—details will follow. The word “picnic” invites investigation. It conjures…
A Tribute to an Original: Zsolt Lehoczky
“I have an idea.” The sentence is a frequent one Zsolt utters
A Shameless Pitch
Let’s start with transparency. This blog is a shameless pitch about an upcoming musical event at the Dunn Gardens. I could dance about with notions of how music and gardens…