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Cloisters

Posted on the 03 May 2013 by Elizabethwix

 

I'm afraid this blog is turning rather horticultural.

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Anyway, the Cloisters  medieval  physick garden is a delight of dappled cowslip and woodruff...

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... with a few timid violets to mimic the background of the Unicorn tapestries.

 

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Ajuga and a mysterious larger-leafed plant. Julia Fogg please advise. (The quince notice refers to the tree!)

 

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Herewith the said quince tree and a wonderful woven wicket fence.

 

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Such lovely tiny birds and butterflies and a rooster in the margins of a manuscript.

 

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The wise men being ignored by visitors.

 

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This last picture just put in as a great contrast. The railyards from 11th Avenue at about 33rd Street.

The only echo is the complexity of design.

 


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