Steve Whysall

We’ve just got back from a 16-day trip to Spain and England. So how hard was it, travelling in these Covid-scary times?Well, the first issue we had to deal with was literally making sure...

I went to my local garden centre the other day, looking for my favourite variety of begonia, Belleconia. I was hoping to buy yellow ones to fill a window box I grew Belleconia once, a...

There are hundreds of varieties of rhododendron. But I always fall in love every spring with the one in my front garden, Rhododendron augustinii.It is a mesmerizing, electric blue and looks amazing set against...

Williamsianum Taurus Sappho PJM Ken Janeck Cinnabarium Impeditum Hotei Dora Amateis Rhododendron augustinii, lovely rhodo for any garden 10 OF THE BEST FOR YOUR GARDEN AND WHERE TO GO TO SEE MOREApril and May are prime months to see rhododendrons at their best. Since it...

I've always enjoyed planting bulbs with my kids. Now I enjoy bulb planting with my grandkids. And Jake, 8, is always very enthusiastic.There is so much we can learn by planting spring flowering bulbs...

When October comes around, I can't help thinking about spring. Yes, fall is fabulous with its magnificent colour changes and calm days, blue skies and mild temperatures. But October is the perfect time to plant...

I was chatting wth my grandson, Jake, 8, the other day about dragonflies.“They land on you and they bite,” said Jake.I said I had never had a dragonfly land on me, not once in...

I've always been partial to clipped boxwood. I'm English, but that is not the reason. You will find beautiful trimmed boxwood in many Dutch, French and Belgian gardens as well as...

Since 2009, we have led 28 garden tours to numerous countries, including the UK, Italy, France, U.S., Ireland, South Africa, Japan, China, Brazil, the Netherlands, India, Spain, Belgium, Morocco, Singapore, Myanmar, Croatia, Montenegro and...

If things were normal and we were not in the middle of this awful pandemic, I would be getting ready right now to go to Europe for a divine river cruise on the Danube,...

My friend Umberto (Bert) Garbuio died Friday, March 13 at his home on Cambridge Street in North Burnaby. He was 90. Born in the Veneto region of...

I’ve been growing paperwhites in glass vases for more than 20 years. I remember buying a bag of these amazing little bulbs...

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In Ljubljana, we started the last day of our tour with a walk around the old town centre. Colourful building outside our hotel in Ljubljana

On our last day in Zagreb, we walked from our hotel to the botanic garden. Inside Zagreb botanical garden Inside we found an...

Our journey to Zagreb was easy and relaxing and not too long and we arrived just in time for lunch and to check into our hotel, Hilton Canopy, which is in...

We left Split and headed north towards Zagreb, but we had planned to stop on the way at Plitvice Lakes National Park. We had been told this...

It took just about 90 minutes to get there out of Split, but the time passed very quickly as the scenery on the way is quite nice. 

Sunday we crossed the border into Montenegro to visit Perast where we took a boat to see the church of the Lady on the Rocks island. Pauline...

In Perugia, we had no idea that to reach the town centre we would have to take a series of escalators. The town is at the top of a steep hill...