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A colleague recently visited the Aga Khan Garden at the University of Alberta Botanical Gardens in Edmonton.  With nearly a decade of planning and 18 months of construction, the Aga Khan Garden, recently opened to the public...

A beautiful part of the Scottish Landscape, called the Kelpies, dedicated to the contribution of horses in transportation throughout history...

Parks are not just for summer or good weather uses, there is this special park (close to my family’s home) in Ouray, Colorado.  The Ouray Ice Park is a human made ice climbing venue...

A world class botanical garden isn’t the first image that comes to mind when you think of Texas. The garden draws me in with a variety of influences from...

It was in April one of my colleagues visited the lovely historical city of Prague and I was very envious. Prague is one if those cities that does not disappoint expectations...

When you travel, you find all these amazing places, and more importantly gardens from real people; our history. On one occasion, my colleague's partner was in Florida with his brother when they came across an interesting piece of history...

Sydney and Brisbane are lovely, but not just the Sydney harbour bridge and Opera house, as they are outstanding landmarks, but these large trees...

I never really understood why you would have a house in the city, one in the country and then drive two hours, more or less to get to the cottage by the lake, but for me it's the silence and being in the trees...

​Kakadu national park is Australia's largest national park and its located in the Northern Territory of Australia and is an isolated part of the world. It's been on my bucket list for years and takes some...

Montalvo Arts Center, located on 175 acres in Saratoga Hills CA, is the location of Bruce Munro’s first exhibition of artworks inspired by a single underlying source text, C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia...

Three months in, and our lives are settling into what is, if not a new normal, an adjusted normal. This COVID19 pandemic, is teaching us a lot of things, and a lot of what we are learning is how much we have always taken for granted...

With the arrival of our warmer months, we have been getting outside more and more.  We are still being constantly challenged by the new normal with the COVID pandemic, so we must adapt. Spending more time getting out and about on the...

There is an optimism in the air and it might be the lovely sunny day or hoping the last of the winter snow Is behind us or maybe it’s just early spring! I know the snowdrops have been flowering for quite a few weeks now but...

​I love this time of year when we can start going outside and camping. Apart from sitting outside by a camp fire and enjoying the quiet and nature there are also things you discover. It was in the evening...

Royal Roads comes with a long history deeply embedded in Victoria's beginnings as it was originally built by the influential and very colourful Dunsmuir family. But despite all that...

It’s hard to believe that it was in 2008 I finished my thesis on creating spaces for people recovering from addictions and in particular my study was on people with alcoholism. When designing a garden, my focus is always on designing a space with harmony and balance.