David Hobson's Green Trips

After a few days in Amsterdam trying not to trip over any one of the 600,000 bicycles lying around, or fall into a canal; the latter poten...

This summer I again made my way down to Whistling Gardens, Canada’s newest botanical garden. Located just south of Brantford, it’s the crea...

The plan was to escape the snow for once, except this was the winter without any. Regardless, it didn’t discourage me from taking a trip s...

I lost my hat in the South China Sea. It wasn’t the gentle, cooling breeze tempering the hot midday sun that whipped it away. It was the spe...

After one of the coolest summers on record accompanied by too many complaints about plants not blooming and tomatoes not ripening due to a ...

Great Dixter was the home and garden of the late Christopher Lloyd. Lloyd, revered by gardeners worldwide, was a preeminent plants-man, gard...

It was a single red poppy in a field of wheat beside a busy parking lot that caught my attention. The solitary flower had a calming affect ...

My tree peony had a huge bud on it at the beginning of June but I never saw it bloom. In fact, I missed a lot of things happening in my gar...

Drive thirteen hours just to look at a garden? Are you crazy? Some might think so, but not serious plant and garden lovers. Sooner or later...