http://www.flickr.com/groups/684463@N21/pool Enjoy and perhaps contribute to this grassroots compilation of a treasure trove of historical, American backyards.   Vintage Gardens and Gardeners Group Pool Discussion 78 Members Map Join This Group   Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren’t public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they’re a Flickr member [...]

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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.” what she [...]

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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 [...]

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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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