Summer Monet, 1918
“And so with the sunshine and the great burst of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with summer” – The Great Gatsby, 1925 Read More …
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Every garden a munition plant, 1918
“Every garden a munition plant” 1918 -WW1, National War Garden Commission poster
Blitzed Gardens, 1942
Blitzed Gardens During the beginning of WW2, German bombers went on a night time raid over London. Wave after wave of bombers unloaded their cargo over the populated city. One of these bombs was dropped right next to Westminster Cathedral, Read More …
The Sower, 1850
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.” – Mexican proverb The Sower – Jean-François Millet – 1850
University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896
“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896