Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons.

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  1. Wonderful! The last line of your post about the gardens of artists minds, reminded me of a book, ‘There Is a Garden in the Mind’ by Paul A. Lee. From the preface: Alan Chadwick’s garden is a “garden in the mind” as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together. -Page Smith .. In this story are threads that connect to Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, and Nazi Germany through Helmuth and Freya Von Moltke. (Interesting because of Catherine’s discussions with Thomas Meyer).

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