Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, May 7, 2016.
English daisies across the lawn.
Wordless Wednesday: axes
Tag: path
Our garden in June
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. I don’t have a lot of flowers, but I am enjoying some orange hawkweed, which I hope will pop up in more places in the long grass this summer and next year.
Tomorrow is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up, hosted by Pam at Digging. If grass counts as “foliage,” this is my contribution as well.
You can read more about our backyard in Stuttgart, Germany, here.
To scroll through larger versions of the pictures, click on ‘Continue reading’ below and then on any thumbnail in the gallery.
In a field by the river
my love and I did stand. . . .
She bid me take life easy,
as the grass grows on the weirs. . .— W. B. Yeats, from “Down by the Salley Gardens“
Wordless Wednesday: flagstone path
Vintage landscape: Danville, Virginia
More massive boxwood hedges — this time at Oak Hill, near Danville, Virginia, ca. 1930s, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The house was built in 1825 by the Hairston family. It burned down in 1988.
Vintage landscape: rocky road
“Road to Nicholson Hollow. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia,” October 1935, by Arthur Rothstein, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
I think this would be a good reference picture for making a dry stream bed path through a naturalistic garden (click to enlarge).
More on Nicholson Hollow this Sunday. . . .
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
che la diritta via era smarritaThe Divine Comedy – Pt. 1 Inferno – Canto 1 – (1-3)
13. In the middle of the journey
of our life
I came to myself
In a dark forest
The straightforward way
Misplaced.
(Schwerner, 2000)— Caroline Bergvall, from “VIA” (48 Dante Variations)
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