by GV | Gardening, Japan, Plants
To Barthelemy “Bart” Desilets-Roy teacher and brother in Japan. When I think of the constitutive role of pine trees in the soul of the Japanese people and their gardens, I think of an anecdote that happened to me in Japan. One sunny day in July I...
by GV | Gardening, Japan, Plants
This story of maples takes the first step in Wales, a land almost totally unaware of the noble strain. (Except for Acer campestre, the only British native, that in those lands shapes – together with other rustic fellows such as the hazel, the spindle, the...
by GV | Gardening, Japan, Plants
La storia di aceri che seguirà ha inizio nel Galles, terra pressochè ignara di questo nobile ceppo. (Eccezion fatta per Acer campestre, l’unico nativo britannico, che da quelle parti compone – insieme ad altri rustici compari come il nocciolo, l’evonimo, il...
