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Flora & Fauna: Platanus; Plataan

Parc Monceau, Atget and me

HGimages: Parc Monceau HGmap: Parc Monceau HvdE 8 January, 2012 6 May, 2012Fieldwork, Garden History, Photo group Eugene Atget, Parc Monceau, photography, Platanus 0

The Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam hosted a big Eugene Atget exhibition, which I visited on the last day it showed here, before it ships to Paris. That is of course the city that inspired Atget to make an enormous amount of photos. He avoided the new Paris, with its grand…

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A view and two plane trees

HGimages: Twickel Park HGmap: Twickel HvdE 16 November, 2008 31 October, 2017Current Affairs, Garden History, Planting Michael van Gessel, Twickel 0

In the previous post I was quite positive about the newly built temple at Twickel, and I still am. But there is another fairly recent addition to the garden that I do not understand, certainly not when seen in connection with one of the main objectives that accompanied the installation…

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