Sunflowers at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol early yesterday morning.
Category: garden design
Life in gardens: feeding the chickens
A fenced-in backyard in Georgia, ca. 1899, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
These photos were included in one of several albums depicting African American life, which were compiled by W. E. B. Du Bois for the 1900 Paris Exposition.
There’s a brief history of the American backyard here. Until the 20th century, it was a space for work, not recreation.
Foliage Follow Up in September
Our garden in Kigali, Rwanda, this morning. This is an area at the end of our front terrace, composed of mostly tropical foliage plants and shaded by a large red-blooming Mussaenda erythrophylla. Thanks to Pam at Digging for hosting Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up the 16th of every month.
imagine it as one of those survivors in the old
swamps, shadowed by the grown, light-headed conifers…
— Alan Dugan, from “Philodendron“
September Bloom Day
Our garden in Kigali, Rwanda, September 2014.
To see what’s blooming in other garden bloggers’ gardens, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
The Sunday porch: Mobile, Alabama
“Tom Riley House,” 256 North Jackson Street, Mobile, Alabama, September 1936, by E. W. Russell for an Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Decaying. . . but still elegant.
A Google street view for this address shows an empty lot, but the house next door is still standing.
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