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September Bloom Day
Click to view slideshow. Our garden in Kigali, Rwanda, September 2014. To see what’s blooming in other garden bloggers’ gardens, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
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November Bloom Day: early summer
Click to view slideshow. Technically, because Kigali is a few degrees south of the equator, it is early summer here. But — given that the temperature is almost always in the 70ºs or low 80ºs — it is...
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The Sunday porch: geraniums
More properly called by their genus name, Pelargonium. An enclosed front porch in Chamisal, New Mexico, July 1940, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Lee and his...
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Life in gardens: flower fair
“Country flower fair, May 19 and 20, 1918, at the Bordeaux Town Hall. To benefit the war charities and children’s charities.” Poster art by A. Guindet, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...
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La Madeleine, Paris
Click to view slideshow. Floral display on the south steps of the church of the Madeleine, early September. The flowers were petunias and nicotiana, between rows of dwarf fountain grass. A sign said...
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In a vase on Monday: Paris
Passing by the windows of Rosebud Fleuristes, 4, Place de l’Odéon, Paris. In the vase are lupin, viburnum, and hydrangea flowers. We spent the long holiday weekend in Paris, just getting back this...
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Vintage landscape: front walk
Log cabin in Alaska, probably Fairbanks, between 1900 and 1916, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The photograph is one of over sixteen thousand created or collected by Frank G....
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Vintage landscape: portraits
“Early Double Tulip: Van de Hoeff,” Alberta, Canada, ca. 1930, hand-colored glass lantern slide by William Copeland McCalla, via Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr (all images here)....
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Life in gardens: wildflowers
Children costumed as flowers or insects for an event of the Wild Flower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter, probably in a Chicago park, ca. 1920, hand-colored glass lantern slides by an unknown...
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Life in gardens: Ontario
The Both children and mother outside their home and cottage garden at Slave* Lake, Ontario, Canada, ca. early 1960s, via Cloyne and District Historical Society Commons on flickr. *Probably named for...
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Vintage landscape: Lake Mohonk, N.Y.
The flower gardens of Lake Monhonk Mountain House, Ulster County, New York, ca. 1902, a postcard by Detroit Publishing Co., via The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Lake Mohonk Mountain...
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Vintage landscape: autumn
“Autumn,” 1915, an autochrome by Robert Walrond, via Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa).
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Vintage landscape: fading
These are summer flowers, but the picture captures a late fall mood. An autochrome still life, probably taken in Sweden, ca. 1910s, by John Jäderström, via Tekniska museet on flickr (under CC license).
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Three boys
“Three boys in western costumes holding flowers,” ca. 1915, an autochrome, place and photographer unknown, via George Eastman Museum Commons on flickr. I think these are twins and their younger...
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Ytre Eikås, Norway
Six sisters from Ytre Eikås, Jølster Commune, Norway, ca. 1930 – ca. 1935, by Olai Fauske, via Fylkesarkivet (County Archives) i Sogn go Fjordane Commons on flickr. Of course it’s about their flowered...
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Englewood, New Jersey
“Beechgate,” Englewood, New Jersey, 1918, a hand-colored glass lantern slide by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some mid-week prettiness. . . . The...
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Edmonton, Alberta
Gladys Reeves and father, W.P. Reeves, ca. 1940, vía Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr. Gladys Reeves immigrated from England to Alberta with her family when she was 14 years old. A...
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Põrnikate orkester
“Beetle orchestra,” artist and date unknown, via National Archives of Estonia Commons on flickr. The pencil and watercolor drawing comes from an album of poetry and fanciful sketches of bugs and birds....
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Saskatchewan
Mr. and Mrs. Hall, Punnichy, Saskatchewan, date and photographer unknown, via Library and Archives Canada Commons on flickr.
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