This is one of the outstanding gardens in Quebec, Canada. Normally open 4 times a year by reservation, a group of garden writers got a special invitation and we headed off to La Belle Province for a few days of serious garden touring and a full 3 hours in Les Quatre Vents. (The Four Winds) I’m going to post a series of pics so you can get a sense of this Frank Cabot creation. M. Cabot is also a prime supporter of the Garden Conservancy organization. Unfortunately, the day we were there was a mix of drizzling rain, pouring rain and really poor photography light interspersed with short-lived blue skies (mostly at the end of the day on our way out of the garden) So my day’s shooting was sporadic in its success. You’ll get a flavor of the garden however in these pics. . . .
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Another lovely, ornamental garden in Boerum Hill. It may sound strange, but the first thing that really wowed me about this garden was the sinuous brick path winding from the front entrance to the back seating area.
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I believe that the first three pics below are of windows on the building that houses the Museum of Islamic Art. We didn't go in, as it was almost closing time.
A taster picture from Harlow Carr today. I spent four hours wandering about in plant and flower heaven with the sun shining again. I have been lucky that all my time off coincides with nice sunny days :) I spent more hours in the garden this evening repotting Chilli and Sweet Pepper plants, cleaning the outhouse and organising the pots into sizes... how many plant pots do i have? (Hundreds and they were spread out all over the patio untill my obcessive compulsive disorder kicked in and i stacked them according to size and shape) I planted my seed grown French Marigolds around the left border Roses, and the two Heleniums on the same side, put the Chocolate Cosmos in a blue pot after evicting the Hyacinths. The photo is of an unusual Aquilegia in the Gardens Through Time displays at HC.It was full of beautiful flowers, water, and birds.I will post about it tomorrow. I find visiting a favourite garden helps you find your energy and makes you go back into your own space to garden. I have been six times now and it never fails to inspire me, and my ever ready camera.
"Piet Oudolf likes kinetic plants......plants with purpose, that romp, sway, tickle and cavort". From Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants.
How fortunate then that my visit to the Battery Park Rememberance Garden was on a fairly windy day and I got to witness exactly this kinetic display. The truth is I know very little about Piet Oudolf having only discovered him last year via the NYTimes article with the extraordinary images of hedges and grasses and seedheads. I've since looked at a couple of his books, his website and I now find that he's pretty well represented in NYC with this memorial garden and the proposed high line. . . .
It finally stopped raining this weekend and, very briefly, the sun came out. So we headed to the Parco Nord, a large park on the outskirts of Milan for a long walk.
The park covers 1,500 acres and is a strange mixture of cultivated bits, and natural areas - woodland and agricultural land. It's not a flower-bed type of park, but there are a lot of flowering trees and shrubs. We came across an area full of philadelphus - would have looked spectacular a few weeks back but it was all over now. I was hoping that the lavender bushes would be in bloom, but they weren't quite ready. . . .
This past Saturday my family and I visited The Fairchild Tropical Garden on the last day of the Botero – Chihuly – Lichtenstein Art Exhibit. This year the garden transforms the botanical oasis that is Fairchild into a large outdoor art museum. The impressive pieces of these three amazing artists take on a different perspective when displayed in such a beautiful setting.
Our second stop (the first was Graceland, and you don’t want to know) on the Red Dirt vacation was Biltmore, the palatial estate created by George Washington Vanderbilt II, and still owned by members of the Vanderbilt family, located in Asheville, NC. The only word which comes to mind is amazing. Could you [...]
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The guys wasted no time finding a replacement fountain vase among old Christmas decorations in the barn. Although it’s a perfect fit and we’re all impressed with their quick thinking and ingenuity, it’s not perfect and we’re still madly hoping to get Blithewold’s beautiful original back. It’s sad to think that even if the urn is recovered we might have to keep it under lock and key and find a permanent ersatz solution for our visitors to enjoy outdoors. In my bleaker moments I can imagine a time when all of our valuable objects are hidden away for “safe keeping” and facsimiles are put in their place. Will our experience be diminished or will the fakes become as precious to us as the originals. . .
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My new home is very close to where I find my paying job is, so I am usually able to walk. The fact that I have to walk through the Oshawa Botanical Gardens is also no hardship for me -- tee hee hee!
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On Wednesday I travelled north (just shy of the Canadian border) for a father/daughter field trip arranged by Erin to visit Gretchen, a magical, woodland sprite who is in full tilt harvest mode at Alm Hill Gardens just now. Lilacs and Peonies, organically grown; these were the kinds of floral magic she had on the menu this week. Flowers you can bury your nose in without worrying for the health of your unborn children. . . .
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The Bluebell Wood at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it appeared last Thursday, May 15th, 2008.
One of the things that great public gardens offer is large-scale displays of which gardeners of more modest means, and space, can only dream. The...
Wisteria and Azaleas blooming in the Osborne Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
There are some stunning vistas to be had right now at the Osborne Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Wisteria on the arbors and the azaleas bordering the...
The Queens Botanical Garden is on my "to visit" list. Last week, their Visitor & Administration Center was named one of the top ten "green" projects of 2008 by the Committee on the Environment (COTE) of the American Institute of Architects (AIA):
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It's been a busy start to the week. I made some banana bread that turned out extra nice Sunday night. I wanted to take it with us on our field trip to Meijer Gardens, a fabulous botanical gardens in our area. I had Emily and one of her classmates, Amanda, in my group. We had the best time. We visited the Children's Garden, The Farm Garden, the nature boardwalk, the sculpture garden and lastly the conservatory where the butterfly exhibit was still going on. The girls loved it all, and thought the day went to quickly. The picture above is the tiny door next to the main entrance of the children's garden. . . .
Crabapple, taken last fall at the Narrows Botanical Gardens
This Saturday, May 3 (rain date Sunday, May 4), the Narrows Botanical Garden in Bay Ridge is holding their annual Spring Festival:
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The Surfside Gardens, one of the endangered community gardens in Coney Island, is the focus of the latest segment of A Walk Around the Blog.
Related PostsEndangered Coney Island Community Gardens, February 4, 2008
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The Clark Botanic Garden's 3rd Annual EcoFest will take Saturday and Sunday, May 3rd & 4th from 10 AM-4 PM with an exploration of the gardens in Albertson, tips and lessons on improving the environment and close-up views of the area’s most interesting wildlife.
The event will feature plants to take home, turtle racing, live music and children's activities.
I could tell this morning, when the birds were louder than the chuckle and siss of my coffee maker, that spring has sprung officially and certainly, no doubt about it. It even seemed almost a little easier to bounce out of bed this morning. Now that the forsythia is in full bloom I think it’s time to really pay attention or the next thing you know it’ll be mid-summer! Do you have color associations for the different phases of the seasons? Spring, to me, is a bright yellow and light greenish feathery time and then there’s an early summer shift to pale blue. . . .
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We are still a couple weeks away from flowers like this here in Wisconsin. Instead these are pictures from the Milwaukee Botanical Domes. If you are in Milwaukee and like to garden I highly recomend visiting the domes.
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After the Kitchen Garden I walked around the gardens looking for flowers.. the Daffodils were flowering en masse, around the main borders and in the woodlands at the far side of the gardens. Last time only a few were in flower. . . .
My visit yesterday to RHS Harlow Carr was really good. There was lots going on around the 58 acres with old beds being cleared and new ones appearing. A dug bed for Rhubarb has appeared behind the Rose revolutions border. We wandered from the Rhubarb to the Kitchen Garden... . .
What better way to start the growing season than by walking around Old Wesbury Gardens? The acreage there will inspire you, and if you visit May3-6, you can take advantage of the annual Spring Plant Sale and Gardening Weekend. . . .
Spring has finally sprung in upstate NY, and this week we've been blessed with 3 superb, sunny days of 60º (15ºC) temperatures! It's difficult to find words to describe the delight in having a few warm days, free of the biting winds that blew all through March, and being able to get out into the garden to do some clean-up work. . . .
See also Part 1: The Osborne Garden, and Part 2: Magnolia Plaza
The Rock Garden, viewed from just inside the southernmost entrance.
A year ago I "discovered" the Rock Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
I did get to see the Rock Garden as I...
I want to thank, once again, my new, dear friends in Austin. Specifically, Pam/Digging, MSS/Zanthan Gardens, Diana/Sharing Nature’s Garden and Bonnie/Kiss of Sun, for puttin’ on the dog for us in their wonderful city. I’ve decided the Spring Fling was so exciting and full of things to do that I’m going to devote [...]
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Judith D. Zuk Magnolia Plaza, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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The Osborne Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
I spent most of yesterday and couple of hours today at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There were several things that drew me to the gardens this weekend:
Yesterday morning I attended a meeting of the newly...
This past Saturday, March 29th, my husband and I took a bus trip to New York City and spent the day at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens with our oldest daughter and son-in-law. There we finally found the elusive spring we've been yearning for!
Now I must preface this post with the fact I only spent a couple of hours walking around the Arboretum. I was intrigued but their collection to say the least but found the condition of the grounds a little rough. They need a massive pruning job and a bit of cleaning out of some areas. To be fair I visited in the worst possible time of the year. . . .
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This time we are going to make a journey through time, to one of the most famous of Dutch gardens; the gardens of palace Het Loo (pronounced Het Low) near Apeldoorn. It may sound like an odd name but the old fashioned word loo means an open space in the woods and as such it's a very apt name. . . .
A trip to Cincinnati over the weekend and we had to visit the conservatory. One section was definitely ready for spring. I really liked the way the garden incorporated "buttercrunch" lettuce as a plant material. The lilies seemed to trumpet, "It's spring!"
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