Has anybody noticed the way vine plants are creeping into the design of the Beatty Street Mural in Vancouver? It is as if they seem to know exactly where to go and how to perfectly accentuate the look of each individual rendered. An eye-patch to David Suzuki, a goatee for Terry Fox, a bit more …

In any good neighbourhood you will find a range of personality types – the hoity-toity one, the space-cadet, the sensitive one, the intellectual, the dreamer, the complete nutter – you know, the usual crowd. Between Broughton and Jervis on Pendrell Street in the West End of Vancouver, you can find all of the above, just …

If you are looking for a plant-inspiring road-trip this May/June, then make it The Lizard in Cornwall and hope for good weather. When the sun is shining and the wind isn’t blowing too much, this peninsula on the southern most reaches of the UK can compete with the best wild plant hotspots of the world. …

For the visitor a large community garden gives formal gardens a run for their money by soaring above the individualistic to create something bigger borne out of collective consciousness. The diversity of thought and purpose rather than design make each community garden a unique place to visit. None more so than those found in Vancouver, …

If you haven’t already heard of it, have a particular appreciation for both plants and art, and are visiting Brazil in the near future, you may want to checkout Inhotim.  A 5,000 acre park in Brumadinho,  SE Brazil that includes a 3,100 acre botanical garden and over 500 (with space to keep rising into the …