A farmhouse of To (or Ter) Coulster, in the town of Heiloo, Netherlands, 1815, by J. A. Crescent, via Regionaal Archief Alkmaar Commons on flickr.
You can click on the image to enlarge it. There are more of Crescent’s charming watercolors here.
A garden is the interface between the house and the rest of civilization.
“Fenderson cottage at Lake City on Megunticook Lake in Camden, Maine, in September 1900,” by Theresa Parker Babb, via Camden Public Library Commons on flickr.
Lake City seems to have been a neighborhood of summer homes. From the late 1880s, “a flood” of people from the eastern cities –often rich and prominent– built cottages in and around Camden, drawn by the surrounding scenery and the town’s romantic seafaring past.
. . . Waved in the west-wind’s summer sighs.
— Sir Walter Scott, from “The Lady of the Lake“
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is a Gunnera manicata pushing its way up through its winter protection. It’s planted at the edge of one of the ponds at the botanical garden of the University of Hohenheim, not far from our neighborhood. (Unfortunately, its plant tag is also somewhere under all those old branches.)
Thanks to Pam at Digging for hosting Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up the 16th of every month.
A bit late, I’m afraid. . .
This month, I’m again stalking the pretty display garden of the Spielhaus* at the University of Hohenheim, which is close to our neighborhood.
What’s blooming? Low groundcover plants, tulips, and magnolias.
There were several kinds of Tulipa clusiana or Lady Tulips.
Above and below are Tulipa sylvestris subsp. sylvestris.
P. angustifolia ‘Blaues Meers’ are also called blue cowslips.
The fritillary were still blooming. They have also been called snake’s head fritillary, chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (from the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, and drooping tulip.
There’s a good article about them here, from the online garden magazine Dig Delve.
Just behind the Spielhaus were a collection of magnolia, cherry, and plum trees.
This cultivar had long flower petals that were all leaning in the same direction.
Not far away was this creamy yellow M. Cultivar ‘Elizabeth’.
To see what’s blooming today for other garden bloggers, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
*Part of the University’s botanical garden.
Easy: purple pansies from the Degerloch farmer’s market, little purple pot.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase (or a pot) today, visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
My tantalized spirit
Here blandly reposes,
Forgetting, or never
Regretting, its roses—
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and roses:For now, while so quietly
Lying, it fancies
A holier odor
About it, of pansies—
A rosemary odor,
Commingled with pansies—
With rue and the beautiful
Puritan pansies.— Edgar Allen Poe, from “For Annie“
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