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En 1624, Mesme Gallet, seigneur du Petit-Thouars et contrôleur des Finances du royaume, acheta une propriété à madame de Montmagny et à ses enfants. Sur les plans de Jean Ier Androuet du Cerceau, il y fit construire l’hôtel qui prendra plus tard le nom d’hôtel de Sully, nom de son plus éminent propriétaire. Trois ans plus tard, après avoir perdu sa fortune aux jeux, Gallet fut contraint de se séparer de sa demeure qu’il céda à son principal créancier, Jean Habert du Mesnil.
L’hôtel appartint successivement à Roland de Neufbourg, puis à François Poussart, avant d’être acquis en 1634 par Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, ministre du roi Henri IV. Ses descendants en furent possesseurs jusqu’en 1752, époque où il fut acquis par Benoît-Turgot de Saint-Clair, conseiller du Parlement. L’hôtel fut revendu par la fille de Turgot de Saint-Clair. Transformé en immeuble de rapport, sa façade fut dénaturée. Symptomatique de ce qu’il advenu des hôtels particuliers dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, l’hôtel de Sully abrita notamment une fabrique de chapeaux de paille, un coiffeur, un marchand de parapluies, de charbon, de machines à écrire et de jouets. A cet effet, les fenêtres du rez-de-chaussée étaient transformées en devantures de magasins. L’Etat racheta l’hôtel en 1944 pour le restaurer.
C’est des fenêtres de l’hôtel de Sully que Mme de Sévigné vit passer Catherine Deshayes, empoisonneuse en série le 22 février 1680, jour de son exécution. Celle que l’on surnommait La Voisin fut brûlée en place de Grève. L’hôtel fut le théâtre d’un autre événement. En 1725, Voltaire dinait chez le duc de Sully lorsqu’il fut appelé par un billet à se rendre à la porte de l’hôtel. Il y trouva « trois messieurs garnis de cannes qui lui régalèrent les épaules et les bras gaillardement ». Les valets du chevalier de Rohan étaient venus rosser le poète qui avait offensé leur maître d’une réplique un peu vive à la Comédie-Française. Voltaire voulut, en retour, provoquer le chevalier en duel qui refusa arguant que l’homme de lettres n’était pas de son rang.
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A l'origine, le domaine faisait partie intégrante de la Forêt de Soignes. En 1833, le marquis Maximilien de Béthune achète 341 ha de forêts, qu'il fait partiellement défricher pour y aménager un parc. Il fait construire trois maisons de garde et deux fermes et entreprend ensuite la construction du château (achevée en 1842), dont il confie la réalisation à l'architecte français Jean-Jacques Nicolas Arveuf-Fransquin et au belge Jean-François Coppens.
Érigé au sommet de la colline, de style néo-renaissance flamand très prisé à l'époque, le château, paré de briques rouges avec des lignes de pierres naturelles, est flanqué de quatre tours et de quatre tourelles. Le terrain marécageux du bas de la colline est transformé en étang.
De 1871 à 1893, le domaine devient la propriété du baron Antoine de Roest d'Alkemade qui l'agrandit au sud jusqu'à ses limites actuelles en acquérant des prairies, les berges de l'Argentine et les étangs de Nysdam.
En 1893, l'industriel Ernest Solvay, Fondateur de la société internationale « Solvay & Co », achète la propriété pour en faire sa résidence d'été. Il confie à Victor Horta le soin de revoir les aménagements intérieurs du château. Une terrasse est aménagée en façade, surmontée d'une marquise vitrée à colonnes de fonte. Ernest Solvay fait réaménager le parc et agrandit encore le domaine qui atteint en 1920, 490 hectares.
Ernest Solvay lègue ses biens de son vivant à ses enfants. Le domaine de La Hulpe est divisé entre ses deux fils, Edmond qui reçoit la partie nord et Armand, l'aîné, qui reçoit le château et la partie basse de la propriété, dont l'ensemble constitue le domaine Solvay actuel.
Armand Solvay, puis son fils, Ernest-John réalisent d'importants aménagements du domaine qui lui donneront sa configuration actuelle.
L'architecte Georges Collin modifie considérablement l'aspect du château. Les tourelles, le clocheton central et la marquise sont supprimés, les flèches des tours sont raccourcies, la brique rouge est recouverte d'un enduit clair.
Ernest-John fait construire un belvédère auquel mène un escalier de 140 marches. Un jardin à la française est créé sur un côté du château. Face à la façade principale, une percée rectiligne engazonnée de 800 mètres à travers la forêt se termine par un obélisque de 36 mètres de haut surmonté d'un soleil doré. Il fait planter des espèces exotiques encore présentes aujourd'hui.
Préoccupé par la perspective d'un morcellement futur du domaine, il obtient son classement en 1963 et décide quelques années plus tard d'en faire don à l'État belge, à la condition de le maintenir dans son intégrité et de promouvoir les manifestations et rencontres culturelles.
Après le décès d'Ernest-John en 1972, cette magnifique propriété de 227 Ha devint accessible au grand public.
(Source : www.chateaudelahulpe.be)
La neige annoncée est bien tombée et comme chaque fois qu'elle apparaît, elle transforme nos paysages. Le jardin est quasiment tout blanc, cela devient si rare que nous nous émerveillons tous . Mais sans oublier que malheureusement il y a depuis hier deux personnes qui sont décédées dans le Nord et qu'il y a plus d’une cinquantaine de blessés, dont trois graves dans un accident de la route.
By Catherine Boeckmann
February 9, 2024
The daylily is an amazingly low-maintenance perennial. It’s virtually disease-free, pest-free, and drought-resistant; it’s also not picky about soil quality. Plus, the flower has a long bloom period! Here’s how to plant and care for daylilies in your garden, as well as how to easily propagate them for more plants!
About Daylilies
The daylily’s botanical name, Hemerocallis, comes from the Greek hemera (“day”) and kallos (“beauty”). The name is appropriate since each flower lasts only one day! However, each scape has 12 to 15 buds on it, and a mature plant can have 4 to 6 scapes, which is why the flower seems to bloom continuously.
Originally from Asia, these plants have adapted so well that many of us think of them as natives. Imagine the excitement of a 16th-century explorer cruising the Orient and finding these gorgeous plants! European gardeners welcomed daylilies into their gardens, and when early colonists sailed for the New World, daylilies made the crossing with them.
Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genus Lilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called “scapes”—which rise above the foliage.
There are thousands of beautiful daylilies to choose from. Combine early, midseason, late blooming varieties, and repeat bloomers to have daylilies in flower from late spring through the first frost of fall. If you see a height listed alongside a daylily variety, this refers to the length of the scape. Some can reach 6 feet tall!
For more information please visit
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These Daylilies were photographed at Pashley Manor Gardens. At Pashley you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.
All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.
Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.
Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.
For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/
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A tender moment captured at the 4th Chennai Flower Show in Semmozhi Poonga! This blushing pink rose caught my eye among thousands of blooms. There's something magical about how it stands alone, perfectly lit, like nature's own spotlight performance in the heart of Chennai.
The Semmozhi Poonga shows never disappoint - they transform our city into a floral paradise. This little beauty proves why Chennai's flower shows are becoming a must-visit for nature lovers and photographers alike!
The American flag blowing in the wind near a window captured here reflecting and distorting in the glass of an old chalk drawing hanging on the living room wall. The soft vertical lines reflected in the glass are from vertical blinds.
It's a lazy photograph, you might say. I snapped it while sitting on the couch.
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Siem Reap - Ankor Wat Temple - Sunrise @ lotus pond
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Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world with the site measuring 162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m2). It was originally constructed as a Hindu temple of god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a Buddhist temple toward the end of the 12th century. It was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura, present-day Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the Shaiva tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to Vishnu. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.
Macro Mondays
{BAM 17 of 52}
Theme: Transformation
I normally don't wear this much make-up but when I do I can honestly say I feel transformed. lol
Happy Macro Monday everyone! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
By the way my eyebrows are having a bad day lol
My local pier, which is no longer in use, has fallen into a state of disrepair. I still see it as a thing of beauty and interest. I captured this image at sunrise yesterday and although there was little colour, due to the impending rain clouds, the Long Exposure gave some lovely movement in the sky and smoothed the water nicely. Beauty from something which at first glance, was not so beautiful.
Standing before the Viaur railway viaduct, I wanted to move beyond engineering prowess to reveal the dream woven into steel. By framing the structure diagonally and stripping away all context, reducing the scene to black and white, I sought to exalt the raw power of metal, the complex interplay of bracings, and the graphic tension of a suspended work.
My intention is to invite the viewer to see this giant not as a bridge, but as calligraphy traced across the sky—a monumental signature in lines and rhythms, of light and shadow. In this abstraction, matter becomes drawing, and technique transforms into poetry.
Through this gaze, I celebrate the essential: the human gift for shaping—and imagining—the landscape. The Viaur, in this frame, is a symbolic passageway: it joins the force of engineering with the creative breath of the imagination, bridging earth and idea, utility and art.
My declaration of love to side roads. -Seen on a recent road trip; Havelland, Brandenburg 2024. - Project: Rural Areas
Super-Padd has almost recovered from the accident.
He was on his way to Mummy Marian's house when he collided with the sliding door on landing. He was unconscious for a while and suffered from paw problems.
He now wants to meet Paddy, Daddy Jesse and all the other bears who live in Australia.
Peter told Super-Padd about the secret magical portal in Mummy Marian's garden and also told him when you go through the portal you are in Australia.
But..because S-Padd is too big, he cannot go through the portal.
Peter asked for help from the fairy-mother.
She came immediately with fairy-dust.
Peter took Super-Padd to the agreed place in the garden after sunset.....
SUPER-PADD:
I do find it a bit scary Peter.
I don't know what's happening.
PETER:
Have faith in the Fairy Mother....look...there she is already!!!!
FAIRY-MOTHER:
I don't have much time Peter and Super-Padd. So if you stay still, I'll do the spell and sprinkle fairy-dust all over you Super-Padd. Then you can go through the gate.
It takes a few seconds to transform.
If there are any problems, you can send me an app.
Here we go....
Fairy Mother does the spell...sprinkles fairydust all over Super-Padd.
After that, she disappeared.
The fairy-dust circles around Super-Padd. Fog forms...a thud....and....
PETER:
Huh....Super Padd....where are you???????
SUPER-PADD: (replies in a small voice)
Here Peter!!!
Boy are you big! What happened to you?????
Be continued
. As if by magic turning mud into flowers
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"Le lotus, ami des eaux dormantes, plonge ses racines dans la fange. Le bel élan de ses tiges porteuses de larges feuilles évidées comme des coupes, la carnation lumineuse de ses fleurs ne laissent rien soupçonner de cette origine innommable. Ainsi incarne-t-il aux yeux des Chinois la pureté triomphante, qui transmue comme par enchantement la boue en fleurs"
(François Cheng, poète français né en Chine en 1929)
‘The lotus, a friend of still waters, plunges its roots into the mire. The beautiful slenderness of its stems, which bear broad leaves hollowed out like cups, and the luminous complexion of its flowers give no hint of this unspeakable origin. To the Chinese, it is the embodiment of triumphant purity, transforming mud into flowers as if by magic’.
Nur zu gut erinnert man sich noch heute an das verheerende Orkantief Lothar, das sich am 26. Dezember 1999 über der Biskaya entwickelt hat und in nordöstlicher Richtung über West- und Mitteleuropa mit über 200 Stundenkilometer hinweg zog. Der durch den Orkan Lothar verursachte Schaden war enorm, 30 Millionen m³ Sturmholz wurden in nur wenigen Stunden auf rund 40.000 Hektar hinterlassen. Große Waldgebiete wurde so in eine trostlose und baumlose Kahlfläche verwandelt.
Fährt man die Schwarzwaldhochstraße von Baden Baden zum Kniebis hinauf, sind die Sturmschäden auch heute noch nicht komplett verwachsen und die Spuren des Orkans zu erkennen.
All too well today one remembers the devastating hurricane Lothar, which developed on December 26, 1999 over the Bay of Biscay and moved northeast over western and central Europe at over 200 kilometers per hour. The damage caused by hurricane Lothar was enormous, 30 million m³ of stormwood were left on around 40,000 hectares in just a few hours. Large forest areas were thus transformed into a desolate and treeless bald area.
If you drive up the Black Forest high road from Baden Baden to Kniebis, the storm damage is still not completely overgrown and the traces of the hurricane can be seen.
Beauty is all around us if we pay a little attention to it. A simple ray of sunlight can transform an insignificant landscape into a magnificent one.
As we bid adieu to the warmth of summer's embrace, we find ourselves on the precipice of autumn's arrival. The world transforms into a canvas of vivid hues, a tapestry of crimson and gold, where every leaf tells a story of change. It's a season that invites introspection, a time when nature itself seems to pause and take a deep breath. As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, we're reminded of the beauty that resides in letting go, in the graceful dance of transition. So, as autumn approaches, let us embrace this chapter of transformation with open hearts, for it's a reminder that change can be as beautiful as the falling leaves.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Alcuni pittori trasformano il sole in una macchia gialla, altri trasformano una macchia gialla nel sole.
(Pablo Picasso)
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