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3 days ago · One of my favorite books as a child was the classic The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. Recently, I was able to share it with my daughter. Once she finished it, I told her it was time now to see the movie and compare it to the book. It is something that I am looking forward to sharing with her this summer. A few years ago, I came across the interesting story behind the book.
4 days ago · Olivia Laing’s latest book, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, sets the reader an ambitious agenda.Laing asks us to see the garden less as a winsome pastime and more as an unlikely teacher – a powerful model for looking at, sifting through and being in the world – and a place to imagine the world as otherwise.
5 days ago · Greenway. 2-for-1 Gardens - Greenway (c) National Trust Images/ John Millar. Greenway, on the River Dart in Devon, was once home to Agatha Christie. The location provided inspiration for lots of her murder mysteries. Hunt for clues down by the boathouse - the setting for a murder in the Poirot novel Dead Man's Folly.
4 days ago · In this colorful index of garden life, each letter of the alphabet is assigned to one (or more) words, usually plants or other related concepts and items (“Earth,” “utensil”); ...
8 hours ago · In the forest at the end of their garden, Isla and her mother hunt for herbs, forage for fungi and listen to the trees. It is their peaceful and happy place. and they appreciate all that it gives them. One day, when Isla finds a beautiful and strange seed which she wants to keep, her mother tells her about the garden at the end of the world…
1 day ago · The plot of the first three chapters, along with chapter 12, "Nausicaa", takes place on the shores of Dublin Bay, off the map. Leopold Bloom 's home at 7 Eccles Street [12] is the setting of episode 4 ("Calypso"), episode 17 ("Ithaca"), and episode 18 ("Penelope").
3 days ago · An exhibition at London's Garden Museum reveals the vital role nature played in the lives and work of Britain's radical creative collective, the Bloomsbury Group. "In very tangible ways, but also ...
