Sofias Country Gardens

This New Year 2025 I woke up in New York, as you do when life continues to throw random curved balls at you and so much of what you do is...

One of my favourite botanical gardens in the whole world - Kirstenbosch - lies nestled in the foothills of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. Not only is the flora and fauna absolutely spectacular, but it is also beautifully laid out and preserved in the wild kind of way that I have come to love. It is for good reasons considered one of the five most important botanical gardens of the world, acting as a champion of building biodiversity knowledge. The area spans an impr

An extempore trip driving through Germany last week ended with the welcome respite of visiting another botanical garden. Having spent most of the last few years at home on the farm, I had quite forgotten how stressful it is to drive along large and super busy motorways and to be honest I found it quite exhausting. My friend Maria turned up to help share the burden, and I was really grateful to have a co-driver! Maria and I have travelled a lot together, and she wasn't in the

Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) with Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) hanging from the branches In winter while my own garden is still sleeping I try to get away every now and then to catch some sun, and so it was that I visited Tenerife in November 2021. Everywhere I travel, I try to visit the local botanical gardens. It is like a game I play, the collecting of botanical gardens, and by now I have visited at least 35 different ones. Botanical gardens vary a lot in shape

I love travel. I mean who doesn't? But more than anything I love travel that includes visiting gardens. I find seeing other gardens...

In May this year I visited Nice botanical garden on the Côte d'Azur in France. It was an overcast day, which can be perfect for strolling...

This summer I actually went on holiday from the farm in the middle of summer. It is twenty years since I last went away during the...

I must admit I found Paris Botanical Gardens to be just as grand as they sound, but what else would one expect from one of the most...

When I asked at the hotel I was staying for directions to Bologna botanical garden, the concierge looked at me with a firm look of...

Pisac is a village in southern Peru's Sacred valley region, so the odds are that few people stumble upon the jewel of a botanical garden...

I love to visit botanical gardens when I travel, and actually it is a hobby of mine to collect botanical gardens from all over the world....