Have you ever been in a place in which you felt as though you had stepped into a fairy tale? A place with so much history and power that you could feel the presence of the past? For me, this was the Forum at Rome. At night the Forum transports visitors back in time. It […]
via The Forum in the Eve — sethsnap
Last week’s post examined two of Berlin’s strikingly modernist interwar estates and the politics which created them. We’ll examine two more this week, built just before Weimar Germany’s famously progressive politics succumbed to Nazism. That politics was, of course, always fiercely contested and the cultural battle for the German soul is clearly seen in the […]
via Berlin’s Modernist Interwar Estates II: ‘Light, air and sun’ — Municipal Dreams
Arashiyama is a historic area on the western outskirts of Kyoto. Lots of sightseers are drawn there, in part by a forest of enormous bamboo trees.
This post is a little different, inspired by a trip to Berlin last December and in celebration of our common European home. I’ve written about perhaps Berlin’s most famous modernist estate, the Hufeisensiedlung (the Horseshoe Estate) in an earlier post. Weimar Germany, the democratic state founded in 1919, emerged from the horror of world war […]
via Berlin’s Modernist Interwar Estates I: ‘Every German their own healthy home’ — Municipal Dreams
This preserve is a few minutes walk from Buffalo’s downtown. Fortunately, I live in an area where places like this are cherished. This phrase appears in many recent industry trend reports, but I don’t quite remember what they mean by it. Here’s what I mean by it. For years now, it’s been abundantly clear that…
via Gardening with a purpose by Elizabeth Licata — Garden Rant
So this week we were mainly lifting, dividing and replanting herbaceous plants in the Walled Garden at Blickling…
Digging all done…Mike resting on his spade, while Rob presses on with wiring up support for the wall fruit…
Lizzie gearing up for some seed sowing…
Otto the dog is in there somewhere!
Regimenting the cut flowers…
I was recently invited to attend The Hodsock Priory event to launch the 2017 snowdrop season. I have never been able to attend before so I made sure this was going to be the year I visited. This is the 26th consecutive year that the snowdrop event has been held. The event runs daily 10am-4pm from […]
via A Visit to Hodsock Priory – Sparkling Snowdrops And Sumptuous Scents — The Cynical Gardener
Ginkaku-ji started out as a retirement villa on the outskirts of Kyoto for a 15th century feudal lord. Originally, the main building was supposed to be covered with silver. Ginkaku-ji, in fact, means Temple of the Silver Pavilion. Civil war caused the silver idea to be indefinitely postponed, yet the name stuck.
via The Beauty of Mosses at Ginkaku-ji — gardeninacity
After Tokyo we traveled to Takayama, a small city in the Japanese Alps, also called Hida Takayama after the region where it is located. In picking this place, I was motivated by the desire to spend part of the vacation where it wasn’t quite so hot. In this, I was misguided. Takayama does have cold […]
Hundreds of trees will be planted across the Lake District today (Friday 10 February) in the first mass tree planting event ever attempted by the National Trust in the national park. The trees will help reduce the impacts of future flooding and restore wood pasture habitats that have been lost, National Trust rangers say. More […]
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