gardenhistorygirl 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 [...]

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Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens | Travel | guardian.co.uk Treetop walkway at Kew Gardens (9 pictures) Thumbnail view Read more 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 1 / 9 The 200m-long walkway was designed by the [...]

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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 Wharton Restoration Inc. to raise [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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