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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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Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens | Travel | guardian.co.uk
Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens (9 pictures)
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Stairway to heaven for tree lovers at Kew gardens
One hundred and eight steps up, tree top walk way provides new striking view of Londo
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The 200m-long walkway was designed by the architects of the London Eye
Photograph: Linda Nylind
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Tags: Architecture · Public Gardens · Europe
October climax set for The Mount - Berkshire Eagle Online
By Benning W. De La Mater, Berkshire Eagle Staff
Article Last Updated: 05/14/2008 03:00:18 AM EDT
LENOX — An agreement between The Mount and its creditors has staved off foreclosure and a May 31 deadline that would have forced Edith […]
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Tags: Berkshires · History · Public Gardens · Museums
Cuisines in Bloom - New York Times
Published: May 4, 2008
DUKAGJINI BUREKTORJA
(718) 822-8955; 758 Lydig Avenue (Wallace Avenue), Pelham Parkway; $; Article: 5/18/05.
This Albanian place may be the only restaurant in the city devoted entirely to bureks: savory pies that are the Balkans’ answer to pizza. They are convincingly good, stuffed with meat, spinach, or feta […]
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Tags: Northeast · Public Gardens · Enlightening
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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