The Duchess and Her Garden - NYTimes.com

“THE criticism I’ve had is just massive,” said the Duchess of Northumberland, as she led a visitor through the Bamboo Labyrinth of Alnwick Garden. “It’s really staggering the way that Britain views this project. They said I am to gardens what Imelda Marcos is to shoes.”

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Open Garden Squares Weekend is Bliss for Voyeurs : TreeHugger

 
by Bonnie Alter, London on 06.10.08
 
 
Food & Health (botanical)

Open Garden Squares is the one weekend in the year when people can visit London gardens not usually open to the public and discover all sorts of hidden, unknown squares and patches of green that […]

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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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Global Freshwater Team - World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy Release Map of Freshwater Systems

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World divides the world’s freshwater systems into 426 distinct conservation units, many of which are rich in species but under increasing pressure from human population growth, rising water use, and habitat alteration.

This is the first study […]

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