Spielhaus Garden, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, last August.
Month: August 2016
Life in gardens: Ontario
The Both children and mother outside their home and cottage garden at Slave* Lake, Ontario, Canada, ca. early 1960s, via Cloyne and District Historical Society Commons on flickr.
*Probably named for the Slave or Awokanak Native Americans of the region.
In a vase on Monday: pink and orange
Just zinnias — from the Stuttgart Saturday flower market.
To see what other garden bloggers have put in vases today, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
The Sunday porch: Bon Echo
Rustic birch lattice on the porch of the North Cottage of the Bon Echo Inn, near Cloyne, Ontario, 1935, via Cloyne and District Historical Society Commons on flickr (both photos).
The Bon Echo Inn was established in 1889 on Mazinaw Lake. It attracted wealthy guests who were also tea-totalers, as the religious owners did not serve alcohol. Later, it was purchased by a founder of the Canada Suffrage Association, who made it into a retreat for artists and writers, notably James Thurber. In 1936, the Inn and many of its outbuildings were destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. The surrounding area is now Bon Echo Provincial Park.
Tea service on the verandah of the Inn, between 1920 and 1936.
Life in gardens: group portrait
Unidentified girl holding doll and cat, probably taken in the Jackson area, Mississippi, date and photographer unknown, via Daniel, Al Fred, Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Commons on flickr.
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