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2 unusual facts about The Garden


Herbert Cowley

Herbert Cowley (born 1885 – died November 1967, Newton Abbott, Devon) was a botanist, gardener, garden photographer and garden writer who edited The Garden journal from 1915 to the mid 1920s and wrote many gardening books until retiring in 1936.

Herbert Cowley became Assistant Editor or Sub-Editor at a different title, The Garden in 1910.


Architect Africa Film Festival

Some of the films screened at previous festivals include: The Fountainhead, Metropolis, City of God, The Belly of an Architect, The 11th Hour, My Architect, The Garden, and Marina of the Zabbaleen.

The Golden Section

A progression from the sound of The Garden (1981), Foxx called The Golden Section "a roots check: Beatles, Church music, Psychedelia, The Shadows, The Floyd, The Velvets, Roy Orbison, Kraftwerk, and cheap pre-electro Europop".

The Shondes

In April 2013 they announced the departure of founding drummer, Temim Fruchter, and the entrance of Allison Miller for the band's fourth record, The Garden, to be released September 17, 2013 on Exotic Fever Records, and again produced by Tony Maimone at Brooklyn, NY's Studio G.


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A Terrible Night

The film was made with the Méliès-Reulos portable camera in the open air, in the garden of Méliès's home in Montreuil, using natural sunlight and a cloth backdrop.

Adam Kadmon

The Silver Jews song Pet Politics contains the line "Adam was not the first man 'though the Bible tells us so. There was one created before him, whose name we do not know. He also lived in the garden, but he had no mouth or eyes. One day Adam came to kill him and he died beneath these skies" an oblique reference to Adam Kadmon.

Adam Purple

After Purple's "Garden of Eden" was destroyed, his friend, artist George Bliss, painted trails of purple footprints around the Lower East Side leading to the garden's former location.

Bijbehara

The oldest Chinar of the sub-continent is located in the garden popularly called as Padshahi Bagh which is now under the control of Tourist Department.

Bill Chadwick

The first professional match Chadwick worked was between the Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans at The Garden.

Botanischer Garten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

The garden maintains a focus on indigenous plants of Schleswig-Holstein within a broader representation of plants from around the world, including special collections of South African succulents and plants from the Atlantic islands, as well as Adromischus, Aizoaceae, Aristolochia, Campanulaceae, Crassulaceae, Cuscuta, Passiflora, Plumbaginaceae, and Vitaceae.

Botanischer Garten der Universität Würzburg

As part of this new arrangement, the garden moved in 1854 onto university grounds, then moved again in 1873 to a site near the former Physics Institute, now marked by the X-ray Monument honoring the 1895 discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Buddleja 'Lochinch'

Buddleja 'Lochinch' is an old hybrid cultivar raised from a chance seedling found in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch Castle, Scotland, circa 1940; the shrub's parents believed to be Buddleja davidii and Buddleja fallowiana.

Bunny Guinness

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Château d'Issy

The sculptor Auguste Rodin repurchased the pediment of the garden façade, as well as the avant-corps columns; he set up these pieces at his property of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).

Concert in the Garden

Luciana Souzavoice on "Concert in the Garden" and "Bulería, Soleá y Rumba".

Frederic Osborn

He lived in Welwyn Garden City, the garden city he helped create, and a local school (Sir Frederic Osborn School) was named after him in 1968.

Fuse Rocks The Garden

Fuse Rocks The Garden is an hour-long concert series run by Fuse TV, which contains concert footage of a rock band playing at Madison Square Garden.

Garden city movement

In the former Czechoslovakia, all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the Bata Shoes company (Zlín, Svit, Partizánske) were at least influenced by the conception of the Garden city.

The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as Da Lat in Vietnam (est. 1907) and Ifrane in Morocco (est. 1929).

Garden of Dreams

The Garden of Dreams (Nepali:स्वप्न बगैंचा), also, the Garden of Six Seasons, is a neo-classical historical garden in Kathmandu, Nepal, built in 1920.

Garden of Five Senses

The Garden of Five Senses is a park spread over 20 acres, in Saidul Ajaib village, opposite Saket, near the Mehrauli heritage area in Delhi, India.

Gazebo

Examples of such structures are the garden houses at Montacute House in Somerset, England.

Giles Smith

He has published two books, Lost In Music, about life and growing up with music, and Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel, a collection of extracts from his sports columns.

Hatton Garden

The name ‘Hatton Garden’ is derived from the garden of the Bishop of Ely, which was given to Sir Christopher Hatton by Elizabeth I in 1581, during a vacancy of the see.

Hawaii State Library

The Edna Allyn Children's Room houses murals by artist Juliette May Fraser depicting Hawaiian legends while the garden courtyard features a mosaic of ocean currents by Hiroki Morinoue.

Hildene

The garden is especially noted for its collection of over 1,000 herbaceous peonies.

Hyacinth Bucket

In the second episode of the first series she insisted her husband wear a tie to prune the garden.

International Boxing Club of New York

Norris resigned as president of IBC of New York in favor of Truman Gibson and the IBC was bought by the Garden and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary.

International Garden Festival

The garden festival was held on a 950,000 square metre derelict industrial site south of Herculaneum Dock, near the Dingle and overlooking the River Mersey.

Jardin d'Acclimatation railway

In 1880, a new modified line connected the garden to the Porte Maillot.

Jardin des Plantes de Rouen

Scottish banker John Law purchased the garden in 1717, and in 1741, after several other owners, it was opened to the public.

Jardin Musée de Limeuil

Today the garden contains sections of plantings representing Prehistoric France, the neolithic era, pre-Roman Gaul, Gallo-Roman culture, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and contemporary cultivation.

Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing

The garden was opened by Jimmy Johnstone's wife, family and some of the surviving members of the 'Lisbon Lions' team.

Liangyuan District

The name Liangyuan, or "the garden of Liang", follows from the name Emperor Xiao of Liang, who built the garden around 154 BC centered in the area of nowadays Shangqiu.

Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel

In the Garry Marshall film Beaches, a young Hillary Whitney stays with her family at the hotel, where she treats a young C. C. Bloom to chocolate sodas in the Garden Court.

Merril Bainbridge

The Garden was released in Australia on 31 July 1995, where it debuted at its peak position at number five on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and certifying two times platinum selling 140,000 copies around Australia.

Merville Garden Village

English architect Edward Prentice Mawson, eldest son of the garden designer Thomas Hayton Mawson, became McGrath's choice of architect for the project after being introduced to him by his site manager Jesse Williams who previously worked with Mawson in England.

Oberdiessbach Castle

The only major changes occurred around 1720, when the gate house was converted into a prison and in the 1850s when the garden was redone in the English style.

Orto Botanico dell'Università di Camerino

The garden also contains two greenhouses with tropical and subtropical species, with many succulents and epiphytes including Begonia, Orchidaceae, and Tillandsia, as well as Cinnamomum camphora, Kalanchoe beharensis, Nepenthes mirabilis, Piper nigrum, Stanhopea tigrina, etc.

Palace of Yashbak

Palace of Yashbak (also known as the Palace of Amir Qawsoun), in Medieval Cairo, Egypt is the ruin backing on to the rear of the garden of the tomb of Hasan Sadaq, the main entrance was found by climbing over a pile of Rubble off Manah Al-Waqf Street, which is parallel to Suyufiyya Street, which is behind the Madrasa of Sultan Hassan.

Pietro Cussida

It was through Cussida's patronage that Van Baburan painted the Entombment, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ on the Road to Calvary for the Chapel of the Pietà of the Church of San Pietro in Montorio.

Pippa Greenwood

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Quick Chek

Another New Jersey-based band named The Number Twelve Looks Like You mentions Quick Chek coffee in their song "The Garden's All Nighters" from the album Worse Than Alone with the line of lyrics; "Quick Chek coffee is cooling down."

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

The Garden was founded in 1926 and designed by noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.

Staatliche Baderverwaltung Badenweiler

Today the garden contains extensive plantings of exotic trees, including mature sequoias, cedars, palm trees, eucalyptus, bananas, lemons, oleanders, hibiscus, and magnolias, as well as fine specimens of Prunus, Quercus, Rosa, Sorbus and Viburnum species and varietals.

Taipei Botanical Garden

The garden is accessible within walking distance West from Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station of the Taipei Metro.

Tollygunge Club

Later the grounds were to become a royal park at the heart of the princely estate established by the exiled family of Tipu Sultan, the deposed ruler of Mysore and the house which the Johnsons had built as their home became the garden house of the new Mysore Estate.

Torosay Castle

The garden's Statue Walk is made up of 19 statues in the style of Italian sculptor Antonio Bonazza.

Trachycarpus latisectus

It is commonly known as Windamere palm, for the locality where its first botanical description was made, the garden of the famous Windamere Hotel in Darjeeling, India.

Tycroes

A Canadian maple tree grows at the bottom of the garden of 'Fernhill' (on Ammanford Road) where in previous years the Parry family once lived and some members of the family emigrated to Canada at the beginning of the 20th century and became a prominent family in Hamilton City, Ontario.

Vach

A special feature is the Ginkgo in the garden of the rectory, which is not open to the public.

Van Gogh's family in his art

At the height of his career in Arles he made Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Memory of the Garden at Etten of his mother and sister and Novel Reader, which is thought to be of his sister, Wil.

Wallenstein Palace

Pieroni studied the design of the new part to Wallenstein’s Castle in Jičín and the church of St. Jacob there, and the garden, Sala Terrena, and Riding School are attributed to him.

William Guilfoyle

The garden contains The Federal Oak which was planted in 1890 by Sir Henry Parkes; a plaque recognising the efforts of Vida Goldstein; and an 'oriental-style' pavilion.