Florence Museum

Take a few minutes to enjoy progress and planting at the new The Florence Museum, where I was asked to create an organic, free form garden in a huge rectangular courtyard which is surrounded by rectangular buildings. And, where the plants all have ties to the geographical origins of items in the museum collection! It’s…

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People Who Show Us The World

In 1938 Buzzy’s second grade teacher made his class listen to Wagner and walk through gardens of neighborhood ladies and gentlemen.   Some of the boys sneered.  Buzzy, always sensitive , pretty much shocked me when he said, “Once or twice, on the playground, I found the boys who laughed and interrupted and  I, (he whispers…

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