Entries from SpiceLines tagged with 'garden'

The Winter Garden: French Geometry, Italian Cherubs, Hot House Blooms

It’s known as the Italian Garden, but where is it, really? Not in Italy, that’s for sure. You'll find it on an 8,000-acre Blue Ridge estate, with grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. This is not my garden. But...

The 5 O'Clock Garden, and the May Wonder Cocktail with Strawberries, Rose and Basil

Your reward for a day of planting: the May Wonder cocktail, made of strawberries muddled with fresh basil, white rum, a squeeze of lime, simple syrup and a dash of rose water. Awake at 6:37 AM. Out of the...

April Pause: Irises in Bloom, Strawberry Meringues with Vanilla Whipped Cream

When the irises are in fleeting bloom, there's no better way to enjoy la pause gourmande than with a soft meringue topped with whipped cream and the first fragile strawberries of the season. I blame Elise’s strawberries. It’s not...

Travel Files: Chilling Out in Bali and Northern Sri Lanka; Istanbul in 1839

Winter hazel in bloom after a night of spring rain: One of the pleasures of coming home. I flew in last night, exhausted after a week of travel. Before I went to bed, it rained hard and there were...

Garden Envy in Palermo: Enchanted Statues, Iron Gates and Sun-Dappled Silence

Palermo’s Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays holds over 5000 types of plants, shrubs and trees. Some exotic specimens inhabit another world where they can just be glimpsed through the splotched and speckled glass of a decaying 19th-century winter house. Don’t...

Feed Subscription

If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'garden'. [What is this?]

Subscribe to feed Subscribe to feed

Other Tags

Other tags used on this blog: