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The King’s Garden, Copenhagen, March 24, 2016.
Wordless Wednesday: krokus
The King’s Garden, Copenhagen, March 24, 2016.
Category: design
Life in gardens: blossom time
“Blossom time in Tokyo,” ca. 1914, a woodcut print by Helen Hyde, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Hyde grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and studied at the California School of Design and in Europe. While in Paris, she was influenced by Mary Cassatt’s early works, which made use of Japanese perspective and pattern and featured the intimate lives of women and children. In 1899, she moved to Tokyo, where she studied woodblock printing techniques. She lived there until 1914.
In a vase on Monday: Copenhagen
We spent the Easter weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark. This picture was taken at the Torvehallerne (or food market, located here and on Instagram here) on Saturday.
To see a few more photos of flowers at the market, please click on any of the thumbnail images below.
Inside the food hall, grape muscari with feathers and pussy willow.
Small colored eggs and some winter jasmine vine were added to this arrangement.
The Stalks and Roots flower stand outside the Torvehallerne.
The exchange rate was about six krone to one U.S. dollar.
Lots of potted Narcissus bulbs.
Grape muscari.
The outdoor stall is Stalks and Roots.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
The Sunday porch: Kalaupapa, Hawaii
The west front of St. Francis Catholic Church, Moloka’i Island, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, July 1991, by Jack E. Boucher for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).
The church was built in 1908 to serve the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, now part of Kalaupapa National Historical Park.
The word porch — “1250-1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico” — was originally used to indicate the covered entrance to a church, usually on the south side.
In a vase on Monday: pink Muscari
This morning began with my three tiny pots of a pink variety of Muscari armeniaccum in the kitchen window — along with the Schnapps glasses that I’ve been collecting from our trips in the last year.
I don’t remember where I bought the little clay pots — probably at a thrift store back in Maryland more than ten years ago. The Muscaris came from the Schillerplatz Saturday flower market.
Then I moved the trio over to our rather skinny mantel.
I also tried out a second pot of Muscaris there too.
On the dining room table, I placed a row of daffodils (also from the flower market) and some supermarket red tulips. I bought the assorted vases at a thrift shop recently, inspired by “pins” like this one.
Since I have been taking part in this meme, my vase “wardrobe” has increased tenfold, meaning I had none before and now I have ten (foreign service life is hard on glassware).
Then I moved the rest of my tulip purchase to the dining room table. . .
. . . and tried out the vase assortment on the mantel.
Where it remains.
Above is another pretty flower arrangement from this weekend’s Easter market in the nearby town of Degerloch.
And on Saturday, I had my first Spargel stand sighting — at the Marktplatz farmers’ market.
From now through May, everyone in Stuttgart will be eating lots of white asparagus. Mmhh. . . lecker (delicious).
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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