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Victory garden in Ontario, Canada. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany [1] [2] during World War I and World War II. In wartime, governments encouraged people ...
The victory garden movement started because of food shortages caused by the war. Millions of victory gardens were planted across America during that period of time, producing about 40 percent of America's vegetables. Resistance to vegetable gardens. In the 1970s and 1990s, peacetime vegetable gardens were proposed but did not materialize.
Foodscaping. Edible landscape at Pixie Hollow Garden, Epcot, Walt Disney World in Florida featuring decorative green and purple kale and chard varieties. Foodscaping is a modern term for the practice of integrating edible plants into ornamental landscapes. It is also referred to as edible landscaping and has been described as a crossbreed ...
Kitchen garden. Walled 17th-century kitchen garden at Ham House near London, with orangery in the distance. The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, [1] is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas.
The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth [2] ( Arctia caja) is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. [3] [4] The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, [3] and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
Ina Rosenberg Garten ( / ˈaɪnə / EYE-nə; born February 2, 1948) [1] is an American television cook and author. She is host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and was a former staff member of the Office of Management and Budget. [2] Among her dishes are Perfect Roast Chicken, Weeknight Bolognese, French Apple Tart, and a ...
By country of origin The Orangerie in the Gardens of Versailles with the Pièce d’eau des Suisses in the background (French formal garden) Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden ...
Glasgow's TRNSMT festival is in full swing, with dozens of artists still to perform on Sunday. The sunshine and blue skies that greeted festival goers on the opening day of Scotland's biggest ...