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Gardens Near and Far episode 26 – Domaine du Rayol

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / July 31, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 26: the Domaine du Rayol is a surprising 20-hectare garden in which exotic plants live in harmony with Mediterranean scrubland. Contemporary landscape gardener Gilles Clément gave the garden its current diversity. With his concept of “planetary garden”, he revolutionised the way gardens are perceived. Certain species have adapted to the Mediterranean environment thanks to age-old strategies revealing the incredible intelligence of the vegetal world. Landscape architect Jean-Philippe Teyssier takes us on a discovery of the most beautiful gardens in France and the world. The gardeners, landscapers, horticulturalists, architects, historians and estate managers he […]

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Gardens Near and Far episode 25 – Quinta da Regaleira

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / July 30, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 25: created in the 16th century in Sinta, 40 km from Lisbon, the Quinta da Regaleira was a garden for the acclimatization of exotic plants that the Portuguese navigators brought back from their travels to Asia and the Americas. In the 19th century, a famous owner, Antonio Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, was to make his mark on the place. He added various symbols, mysteries and enigmas for visitors to the 4-hectare garden. The resulting singular atmosphere of disconcerting strangeness makes this garden one of the most surprising places in the area around Lisbon. Landscape

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Nadiya’s Time to Eat episode 3 – Easy End of Days

Nadiya Hussain / 2 minutes of reading / July 29, 2019 / By HDclump

Nadiya’s Time to Eat episode 3: With unsociable working hours, busy lifestyles and complicated family routines, it is not always easy to make time to cook delicious meals. Nadiya Hussain comes to the rescue with time-saving recipes and ingenious kitchen tips to make sure that everyone has more time to spend doing the things they love, with the people they love. In the third episode, Nadiya shares her favourite time-saving recipes to ensure an easy end to a hectic day. A bright and zingy beetroot pasta, cooked in under 15 minutes, is a blissfully simple supper for when

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Hunt for the Missing Black Holes

Science / 2 minutes of reading / July 29, 2019 / By HDclump

Hunt for the Missing Black Holes: New discoveries might finally reveal how supermassive black holes are made, and using the latest technology, experts are on the verge of understanding how these monsters grow and how they affect life on our planet. Hunt for the Missing Black Holes A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole, containing a mass of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. Black holes are a class of astronomical object that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal regions of space

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The Pacific War in Color episode 6

History / 2 minutes of reading / July 29, 2019 / By HDclump

The Pacific War in Color episode 6: Japan feels the pressure coming from all fronts in 1945–ships from the sea, boots on the ground, and fire from the sky. The Japanese Empire has been weakened, but there is no sign of surrender. Through rarely seen color combat footage and frontline stories, witness the American invasions of Peleliu, the Philippines, and Iwo Jima, in addition to the war’s first organized kamikaze attacks and the deadly raid on Tokyo. The Pacific War in Color episode 6 The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the United States

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Gardens Near and Far episode 24 – Palacio dos Marqueses de Fronteira

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / July 29, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 24 – Palacio dos Marqueses de Fronteira: this baroque garden is decorated with thousands of small mosaic tiles, the famous “Azulejos” that recount the glory of the re-conquest of the independence of Portugal in the 16th century. Despite its regular appearance, the garden evokes the Moor palaces with their refreshing fountains, thanks to a hydraulic system from Arab culture. Since the 17th century, the palace and its garden have been handed down from generation to generation within the same family. Landscape architect Jean-Philippe Teyssier takes us on a discovery of the most beautiful

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Ancient Aliens – The Reptilian Agenda episode 8 2019

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / July 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – The Reptilian Agenda episode 8 2019: Serpent gods are found in the religious traditions of Mesopotamia, Central and South America, India, China and Japan. Even the Bible describes reptilian entities interacting with humans. Could these stories be describing a race of reptile-like extraterrestrials? And if so, are they still here today? Ancient Aliens – The Reptilian Agenda episode 8 2019 Ancient Egyptians worshipped snakes, especially the cobra. The cobra was not only associated with the sun god Ra, but also many other deities such as Wadjet, Renenutet, Nehebkau, and Meretseger. Serpents could also

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2019

The Beechgrove Garden 2019 / 1 minute of reading / July 25, 2019 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2019: George reviews progress in the fruit house, while Carole properly appreciates the crop of ‘sweetheart’ cherries. Brian reviews his no-mow lawn and counts the extra wildlife thriving there. Life really is a bowl of cherries at Beechgrove. George reviews progress in the fruit house, while Carole properly appreciates the crop of ‘sweetheart’ cherries. Brian reviews his no-mow lawn and counts the extra wildlife thriving there. The Beechgrove Garden episode 8 2019 Fresh from gold medal winning at Chelsea Flower Show, Chris Beardshaw is back at Beechgrove to smell and tend

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Gardens Near and Far episode 23 – Ninfa

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / July 25, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 23 – Ninfa : By the twelfth century, the ancient settlement of Ninfa had become a sizeable town with a castle. The noble Caetani family were granted the fiefdom. But the town’s population was decimated by civil wars in the fourteenth century, then driven out by malaria. Ninfa lay abandoned until the twentieth century, when three generations of Caetani women – Ada, Marguerite and Lelia – became fascinated with it and made a garden in the ruins of the old town. Wild and cultivated plants twine through the ruins in a riot of

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Renaissance Revolution episode 3 – Piero Della Francesca – Baptism of Christ

Art / 2 minutes of reading / July 25, 2019 / By HDclump

Renaissance Revolution episode 3 – Piero Della Francesca – Baptism of Christ: Matthew Collings concludes the series by looking at the invention of Renaissance painting. The Baptism of Christ by Italian master Piero Della Francesca showed the household names of the High Renaissance how to use the big new trick of Renaissance painting – illusionism and perspective. Without him their achievements would have been impossible, but change came so rapidly in the Renaissance that the qualities that made Piero famous in his own time quickly went out of fashion. The Baptism was bought for the National Gallery in

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The Pacific War in Color episode 5

History / 2 minutes of reading / July 24, 2019 / By HDclump

The Pacific War in Color episode 5: By the summer of 1944, America increasingly controlled the seas and skies of the Pacific, but the fighting on land remained bloody and brutal. As U.S. forces battled for two islands at once, Japan used ingenious dug-in bunkers and caves to make them pay for every inch of ground. Discover America’s strategic and personal motivations behind their simultaneous invasions of Tinian and Guam and witness their far less successful plan to strike Japan from India and China with the new, troubled aircraft, the B-29. The Pacific War in Color episode

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Gardens Near and Far episode 22 – Villa d’Este

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / July 24, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 22 – Villa d’Este: The Villa d’Este near Rome in Italy was a model for all Renaissance gardens that followed. Created in the 16th century by Cardinal Hippolyte d’Este, who was descended from a wealthy family in Ferrare, the gardens are set on a hill overlooking a villa. Work on creating the gardens started in 1550, and continued for over 20 years. In the 19th century, they underwent long periods of abandon, but paradoxically, the abundant, wild vegetation attracted artists like Fragonard and Liszt, who composed “The Fountains of the Villa d’Este” there.

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