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Bloom Day in July: France

July 17, 2016March 8, 2018 Cindy at enclos*ure3 Comments

We spent July 15 in France — driving home across Champagne, Lorraine, and Alsace. For almost eight hours, we looked at the gorgeous wildflowers along the sides of the highways (a lot of Queen Anne’s lace) and listened to sad, reflective compositions on the classical radio station, Musique. It was the best comfort they could offer, the announcer said, for the awful news from Nice.

But for the previous three days, we had been in Normandy, where these bright hollyhocks were blooming in the little gravel courtyard of the house where we were staying.

To see the mid-July flowers of other garden bloggers, please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Vintage landscape: Fredericksburg, Virginia

July 2, 2016June 26, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ureLeave a comment

Mary Ball Washington house, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1927, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The house was the last home of George Washington’s mother. It still exists and is open to the public. The garden was restored in 1968 to reflect how it might have looked between 1772 and 1789.

Life in gardens: Montreal

June 27, 2016June 26, 2016 Cindy at enclos*ure2 Comments

Une femme sent des fleurs à vendre au Marché Bonsecours, à Montréal (A woman smelling some flowers offered by a vendor at the Bonsecours market in Montreal,” June 1950, by Chris Lund, via Library and Archives Canada on flickr (under CC license).

Life in gardens: more pink

April 24, 2014March 22, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure1 Comment

“Girl with carnations,” ca. 1915, an autochrome by Charles C. Zoller, via George Eastman House Collection on flickr.

Zoller was an American from Rochester, New York, who worked in the first decades of the 20th century. The George Eastman House holds almost 4,000 of his autochrome plates.

Another wonderful photo of (April 1945) pink is here.

Think pink

November 14, 2013March 22, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure2 Comments

“Rockefeller Center, New York City, planted with azaleas,” April 1945, by Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

S’wonderful!

Samuel Herman Gottscho worked as a traveling lace and fabric salesman before becoming a commercial photographer at the age of 50. He specialized in architecture, but also regularly contributed to New York Times articles on wildflowers. He was awarded the New York Botanical Garden’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1967 for his photographs of plants.