Lucerne is surrounded by lovely landscapes and is home to such well-known landscape architecture firms as freiraumarchitektur.

See some of landscape photographer and Lucerne resident Derek Feole’s work.

Next week, Hester will find out what’s new in the world of those beautiful slug-magnet plants, hostas, from the perennials nursery, Le Jardin des Lys. If you want a sneak peek at their new ombrarium and the enormous hostas collection, you can take advantage of the first of their “Open Days” this weekend, and enjoy the beautiful Itoh peonies that are in full bloom right now.