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A flower from the "Kitchen Garden" at Somerley Hall, Suffolk, UK.
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No neighbours here, just meadows and mountains and a few distant chalets. And a well-kept vegetable plot.
A dahlia from the "Kitchen Garden" at Somerley Hall, Suffolk, UK.
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I believe these colourful flowers in Mottisfont's walled kitchen garden will soon take on a papery feel to their petals and be ready for cutting to keep in a vase through the winter.
I like the backdrop of the outbuildings with their mellow brick.
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Sprouts from common garlic (Allium sativum, Amaryllidaceae) reach up toward the sky as they emerge from a clove in the kitchen.
Here, the sprouts have been photographed under artificial light in front of an arrangement of glass discs, which produce the soft bubbly bokeh.
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my borage plant is blooming on the balcony and its flowers are of such beauty and on top of good taste. One can add them to salads and all kinds of pretty food one wants to decorate with edible flowers.
This was the kitchen garden at Pebble Hill when the family still lived here. There is a cottage on this side of the gate where guests could stay if the main house was full. They called it the Overflow Cottage. Now it can be rented over night if you wish to stay on the Plantation grounds while visiting Thomasville.
Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, GA
Happy Fence Friday!
From fruit and vegetables, beautiful cut flower beds to the golden rose avenue - and not forgetting the chickens! - the Walled Garden has a bit of everything.
In the floodplains of the Rhine, near the Gelderse village of Doorwerth, lies the famous Doorwerth castle. It has a long history, many renovations and even more noble residents. Including a remarkable woman, about whom a well-known novel has been written.
To get to know the first of those inhabitants we have to go back to the Middle Ages. Ridder Berend van Dorenweerd built a castle here on the banks of the Rhine around 1250. It was not very big yet: the structure consisted of one residential tower and was made of wood.
It has not been there for a long time. In 1260, the Count of Gelre, ruler of the area, ordered the tower to be set on fire. Knight Berend had to be punished for his predatory and violent actions in levying tolls on shipping traffic on the Rhine.
In 1280, a descendant of knight Berend rebuilt the tower. Over the years it has been enlarged a bit.
The most famous name associated with Doorwerth Castle is that of Charlotte Sophie van Aldenburg Bentinck (1715-1800). As a descendant of Anton Count of Aldenburg, she was for a short time the wife of William Count Bentinck (1704-1774), castle lord of Doorwerth.
She was an unusual woman at the time: independent, feminist and impulsive. She led an active love life and was a welcome guest at European royal courts.
Traveled and learned as she was, she maintained an exchange of letters with none other than the great French thinker and writer Voltaire (1694-1778). The writer Hella Haasse (1918-2011) recorded her story in the book Mevrouw Bentinck. Incompatibility of Character & The Great Ones (1978).
Finally, an interesting detail that is also given some attention in the castle. Kasteel Doorwerth has built up quite a reputation as a haunted castle among paranormal believers. For a long time there has been talk of ghosts and white wives who would wander around here. In 2004 British researchers - according to their own words - recorded a ghost on video here.
The pergolas in the newly fitted kitchen garden at Mottisfont are festooned with ornamental gourds in many different sizes, shapes, colours and patterns.
This was my favourite - for its shape, colour and stripes.
Taken backlit - the hanging gourd!
I think this is a turban squash
from the kitchen garden at Mottisfont Abbey
somehow, this triptych reminded me of www.youtube.com/watch?v=24BuKgc3vG8
I'm surely descending into my 2nd childhood!
The kitchen garden at Mottisfont Abbey houses, at any one time, different vegetables/fruit and flowers in season.
Nasturtiums, being edible, fall into both categories although I'm not sure their pungent smell will sit too well on the plate at the dinner table.
and also known as everlasting flower with papery petals and good for flower arrangements, seen in the new kitchen garden at Mottisfont
This Turk's turban aka French turban fell off his perch and was laid to rest on a brick wall in the kitchen garden at Mottisfont (NT).
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To me this photo depicts a simple and happy village life: growing your own vegetables and flowers, lines to hang the washing on, an old church, small communities where people still know their neighbours.
I don't even like gardening. But I do like sitting in gardens.
Here I'm in the newly constructed and beautiful kitchen garden at Mottisfont Abbey (National Trust) where flowers, as well as vegetables, can be found in different seasons.
A farmhouse from 1839 in Mompé Medel, a traditional village with only a farmers' shop in Graubünden, Switzerland.
The Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) can be found in open grassland and urban wasteland from April to November, peaking in July and August. It is common over much of Britain, though less so in the north. Migrants probably add to the British population in some years.
The larvae are predators of ground-layer aphids on a variety of plants including broadleaved crops and cereals.