from the edge of the pink woods step into wonderland
Category: This and that
Winters in Moscow are harsh and very long, but knowing that they are only temporary makes them bearable. You know Winter is over as soon as the first tulips start appearing all over the city. I love how the city explodes in colour after the long cold winter! All the parks and flower beds all […]
via Weekly Photo Challenge: Temporary Tulips in Moscow — Janaline’s world journey
Back again with another selection of photos sharing with you interesting walls and steps we have discovered during our garden visiting adventures. Let us start at Powys Castle near Welshpool in the Welsh county of Powys, which is built on such a steeply sloping site that there is the need for many steps to get […]
via Garden Walls and Steps – part 4 of a very occasional series — greenbenchramblings
Whenever we visit an art gallery, one of my favourite pastimes is to check the floral content of the paintings. I love spotting familiar flowers at the foot of the Virgin, or examining the landscape for familiar trees – it is a way of engaging with the artist who must have lived amongst and enjoyed…
via The Art of the Flower — The Enduring Gardener
“Have a nice walk back through the botanical gardens,” the woman said. “Find your own way over the domain,” the woman said. What she failed to tell us is how to get out of the botanical gardens. I had navigated us thus far so I wasn’t about to stop. We walked in and there were […]
via “Exploring Hobart…Tassie part 2…” — Emma & Nathan’s Travels
Back over the border just half an hour away in Wales we return for part 3 of our visit to the gardens of Powys Castle. We have looked at its upper terraces and the beautiful late summer, early autumn flowering plants, so now we will wander down to the lower garden and have a look […]
via A Visit to the Wonderful Gardens of Powys Castle – Part3 — greenbenchramblings
Everyone loves a box parterre (don’t they?). Back in June 2012, fellow blogger Veronica, from Through the garden gate, and I went to see the open gardens in Amsterdam. We had a super (if a tad exhausting) weekend looking at many hidden gems in the city. A recurrent theme was definitely box parterres. Not present in […]
via Box alternatives — Out of my shed
If you visit Beverley, you’ll likely go to see the Gothic minster – the finest parish church in the land – and its beautifully conserved town centre. It’s dubbed the Georgian Quarter now, a bit of tourist branding which in this case is fully justified. But there’s an alternative history – of a small industrial […]
via Council Housing in Beverley: ‘Top notch in them days’ — Municipal Dreams
The granite walls of the Santa Maria do Bouro Pousada belong to a Cistercian monastery built in 1162 by the first king of Portugal. They aged perfumed by incense and lulled by religious chants. The monks enjoyed their meals sitting around an imposing stone table. The kitchen had two fountains that supplied water, several wood-fire stoves and […]
via Santa Maria do Bouro in the light of eternity — Salt of Portugal
So another garden we saw that Friday was the Hillwood Estate, which has 25 acres of grounds (plus a mansion and some other buildings) in the Northwest part of DC. It belonged to Marjorie Post for much of the last century. Marjorie owned General Foods, so she had a decent amount of disposable income. She left […]
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