The Paintbox Garden
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The Paintbox Garden features thousands of plants and creative combinations in a rainbow of colours, gathered from the hundreds of beautiful gardens Janet has visited in her long career. Janet Davis is an award-winning freelance writer and photographer.
The Paintbox Garden
1M ago
While I was eating delicious, home-baked cake in Juliette Mead’s enchanting garden in the village of West Amesbury last June, I had no idea we were sitting just two miles from prehistoric Stonehenge. It was only later, as we drove ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
1M ago
Finally, I’m getting to finish up my visit to Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay Harbor, the continuation of Part 1 that I published in January. (Who knew winter would get so busy?) So let’s keep wandering and head for ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
3M ago
When my husband said his college golf mates had picked Maine for the annual get-together in 2023, I was pretty excited. I do enjoy seeing these seven couples each year and like them all, but there’s also always an opportunity ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
3M ago
Before I get to Somerset, a memory. On a trip to South Africa almost a decade ago, I enjoyed all the gardens our tour guide Donna Dawson had organized, but my very favourite was Babylonstoren in the Franschhoek wine district ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
4M ago
The beautiful thing about plant-rich garden tours is that you get to see inspiring gardens filled with botanical treasures nurtured by acclaimed gardeners. The sad thing about plant-rich garden tours is that there’s never enough time to spend inspecting all ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
5M ago
During my September Garden Bloggers’ Fling in the Philadelphia area, my favourite small garden was Andrew Bunting’s delightful property in Swarthmore. Perhaps that’s no surprise, given that the owner is the Vice-President of Horticulture with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Founded ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
5M ago
Having visited and often written about Dutch designer Piet Oudolf’s garden on the High Line in many seasons – May, June, mid-summer and autumn; having blogged about his fabulous Lurie Garden in Chicago; but mostly having photographed and written about ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
6M ago
At 281 acres (113 hectares), Boston’s Arnold Arboretum is not the kind of place you waltz through in a few hours. (And this is not the kind of blog you waltz through quickly – unless you’re a plant geek like ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
6M ago
Normally, on the Friday of Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I’d be making sure I had all the ingredients for a big family dinner: turkey, apples and pumpkin for pies, etc. But this year on October 6th my husband Doug and I ..read more
The Paintbox Garden
7M ago
When I paused my tour in my last blog, Part 1, we were leaving the Ruin Garden. Let’s take a moment to explore a little section of Minder Woods, nearby. This entrance moves through a planting of white wood aster ..read more