Last of our current ten-post special series from Amsterdam’s Open Garden Days, so we’ll get back to our regularly-scheduled, numbered entries from multiple series now :-). Hope you’ve enjoyed all these glimpses of gardens in Amsterdam. There are still about twenty photos left in this folder, from five gardens which I haven’t yet even shown you. So plenty more to come. Perhaps yet another special sequence after I work through another cycle of the various other series. Hmmmmmm….
Same garden as the last two posts. I spent a lovely bit of time sitting on a shaded bench, watching others come and go, and considering angles from which to take all these photos I’ve been sharing with you. The house itself was fascinating and in undergoing some renovation. There was an interior doorway of which I also simply had to take a photo. We’ll see if I remember to tell you that it came from here, whenever its turn pops up in the Urban Entrances series 🙂
These are from the same garden as our last lovely solo-photo post. Mirror selfie in both images below, though perhaps impossible for you to see it in the right-hand one.
These images are all from the same garden, including the long corridor with doorways on both ends through which one accesses it from the street (you’ll see the green open-garden sign on the street-side door), and an extra door at the back of the garden, from which vantage point I took the shot above. Lovely layout 🙂
So today on the summer solstice, in Amsterdam the sun will be above the horizon for 16 hours, 48 minutes and 28 seconds – meaning effectively about 18-1/2 hours of daylight or twilight in the sky. Long days mean lots of sun for the plants to grow fast and furious. We’ve just had (last weekend) Amsterdam’s Open Garden Days, showcasing some of that lovely growth. I visited this year for the first time (managing only about 10 of the 25 gardens), and assembled more than enough lovely photos to merit a special series which we’ll be sharing over the coming five days. These ten posts will share glimpses of what are truly Urban Gardens at their peak in the northern summer. This particular series began in May 2020, while I was on lockdown in Bangladesh without regularly-scheduled airline passenger service for many months, trying to walk and enjoy the covid-quieter city by way of outdoor and work-life balance. Mostly, I’ve shared in this series photos of parks, container gardens or plant vendors such as in that first post more than three years ago. But for the coming days, you’ll see true gardens, many of them private (like this one), some at museums, and all behind the houses and thus not visible to casual passersby. Enjoy 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 