I am very happy to FINALLY announce our first two travel destinations for 2016! The end of April finds us closer to home than usual, but visiting some truly remarkable gardens during Virginia’s Historic Garden Week. We’ll also see some sights in Washington, DC! Beginning the last week of May and carrying over into early…
After many months and numerous delays, Gardener|Cook returns with an all-new look, an all-new attitude and a re-energized approach to bringing you the most beautiful gardens, the finest food and the best-of-the-best in travel destinations from around the world. 2016 is shaping up to be a banner year with numerous speaking engagements already on the…
As most of you know, 2012 found me partnering with Ron & Linda Williams, of Garden Travelers, to further expand my business and see yet another part of my dream come true–to be able to travel the world seeing some of its most beautiful natural and historic sites while also visiting some of its truly…
It’s a new year, and along with a new year come new opportunities! As most of you know, I spent much of last year (and part of the previous one) writing two books, both of which are now on the shelves! Plant This Instead! arrived almost a year ago (can’t believe it!), in February, and Southern…
Ancient Sicily and the Amalfi Coast April 15-28, 2015 (with an optional Amsterdam extension, April 28-30) While winter weather sets in across much of the country, my mind is on traveling! 2014 found me leading groups to England, Scotland and Tuscany and 2015 is setting up to be even more exciting! We will…
Well, as is typical here in Tennessee, spring officially arrived last Thursday and today it snowed! It snowed so hard, in fact, that when I was driving home around lunch time you couldn’t see from one telephone pole to the next. Near white-out conditions! 20 minutes later, the sun came out and as quickly as…
I have another exciting opportunity for those of you who love to travel and see beautiful gardens and historic sites, but maybe couldn’t work our earlier trip to England into your schedules. We still have several spaces left on a spectacular trip that starts in London, makes its way through northern England and ends up…
Good Morning, All! It is frigid here in Nashville again and my mind is on beautiful spring flowers and warm summer temperatures as we take the polar plunge once again. I’m not sure how the garden is going to fare. I have some plants that are looking pretty poorly after reaching 0 degrees here a…
As I write this, we are facing some of the coldest weather we have had in nearly 20 years at the beginning of next week. Now, I know that all over the world there are places where it gets and stays much colder than it will be here, but a high temperature of 13 degrees…
I have been a bad blogger this year. I admit it. But writing two books in a year’s time and getting the travel business off the ground has taken a considerable amount of my time and has turned my attention, for most of the year, elsewhere. And so, I’m making at least one New Year’s…