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Garden travel, ideas, inspiration and great Buffalo, NY gardens by the well-travelled president of Garden Walk Buffalo, one of the largest garden tours in the U.S.
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Flower Eaves
I've never seen eaves as pretty as the ones on this building in Rome. When we were there last, my wife dragged us off the beaten path just to show me this building, her favorite in Rome. I previously had never been keen on artwork on the outside of a...
Floating Garden of Bellagio, Lake Como
This is a few years old, but I've had these photos for a while and I felt guilty for trashing some of the urban public gardens in Rome, so I thought I'd post this. It wasn't just me though. Elizabeth from Garden Rant and Gardening While Intoxicated a...
Villa Borghese Museum Gardens, Rome
Here, grass grows through the boxwood. Would you let this happen in your garden?In 1605, Cardinal Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, turned a former vineyard, in what was then, a hill on the outskirts of Rome, into immense gardens. In the 1800s, much o...
Roman Holiday
Have you ever seen the Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck movie Roman Holiday? Peck’s character lives in a small apartment on the street in the photo above, Via Margutta, Rome. To the right, below, is the door to the actual address he mentions in the movi...
Look, up in the air...
If your balcony faced directly into, and at eye level with, the tens of thousands of tourists that walk down the Spanish Steps in Rome each day, wouldn't you too have a screen like this? There were people sitting on this balcony when we went by, b...
