It’s hard to believe that summer is almost here! We’ve been quite busy with projects and garden visits. We do finally have a good number of pictures posted from Heather’s trip to France, Belgium and Holland. They’ve yet to be … Continue reading →

Flora, the goddess of flowers, has long presided over the Mediterranean Garden, here at Lenkin Gardens. But due to some challenging drainage issues on the rather steep slope where she stands, the roses have struggled to fill in – until … Continue reading →

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend! We had a lovely one here at the Lenkin Gardens: in collaboration with the Da Camera Society we hosted three concerts featuring the world-reknown Cavatina Duo, who were making their … Continue reading →

An exciting hunt through the markets of Paris elicited a mouth-watering and tantalizing visual feast. My favorite seeds that I found are Italian – Franchi seeds Misticanza Quattro Stagioni – a delightful find of mesclun, endive and chicory. Digo varietà … Continue reading →

Today Heather is in Volendam, in the Netherlands and she’ll be returning from her vacation sometime this weekend. Though the day before yesterday Heather was out in Middelburg in the Netherlands. She sent us a few tiny photos of things … Continue reading →

Antwerp and Bruges Happy May Day! Earlier this week Heather has been traveling around visiting Belgium and the Netherlands. From the emails that we had been getting from her seemed like she has been very busy seeing all the sights. … Continue reading →

We have a small collection of photos that we have received from Heather showing us what she has been up to during her trip in Europe. We thought that we should put them up on the blog to share the … Continue reading →

Heather is currently on vacation in Europe and while communication has been a bit rough electronically she’s managed to send us a mosaic of photos of her current trip. This is a collection of photos from a few places including … Continue reading →

The beginning of the week started off with some blistering summer like weather getting up an intolerable 100˚ temperatures. Now towards the end of the week the weather has shifted yet again surprising the entire garden with overcast weather and … Continue reading →

Ruler of all she surveys…

Both of our fancy cameras have gone out of town with their owners. Good thing we have an iPhone here! Sunday and Monday’s 100˚ temperatures were a bit hard on the gardens. The roses, however, have taken this as their … Continue reading →

The Lenkin Gardens here are slowly coming to life here as Spring takes off. The bees are buzzing, the hummingbirds are zooming by, and all the flowers are blooming like crazy. We have been slowly taking photos of things blooming … Continue reading →