“Eden Reconsidered”
An Appreciation of the Brine Garden
by Marilyn Bethany
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The Elizabethan Snail Mount
The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for […]
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Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide - Annotated
Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens
Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting […]
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Info on Gifford Garden in Millbrook, NY here
Re The Mount:
more than 100 people attended a public forum on the future of The Mount, the Edith Wharton Estate […]
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Mitigation Banking: Benefits of Mitigation Banking
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