New inspiration for garden planning sometimes takes the form of relics from the past.  A garden folly, for example, is a garden ornament that combines a number of old architectural elements, but has no real purpose other than to create an atmosphere.

After four decades of theatre and film directing, 86-year-old legend Peter Brooks has perhaps directed his most radical opera yet – a slimmed down, bare bones production of Mozart’s Magic Flute.

Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree --
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?

Here is our interview with makeup artist Michelle Cudmore, who worked on the beautiful Anne-inspired wedding photo shoot we have posted.  Along with other wedding vendors, Michelle was handpicked by Rachel Peters, of Rachel Peters Photography, to help her create her vision.  Luckily, Michelle is both a talented artist and an authentic Anne fan.

Some of you may have already considered having an Anne of Green Gables-themed wedding, or gone to the actual house in PEI to be married.  But a recent Anne-inspired wedding photo shoot shows us that even the smallest details can bring Anne’s world into our own wedding – and make it a truly beautiful experience.

I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.

I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when i look out at the buildings

Yesterday we wrote about the Irish poet, Francis Ledwidge, who was killed during World War I.  His patron, whose battalion he joined, was Lord Dunsany – also a poet and fantasy writer.  The picture above is an illustration from one of his fantasy novels, A Dreamer's Tales, which was considered a big influence on J.R.R.Tolkien.  Here is one of Dunsany's poems, Art and Life.

For the sky, blue.  But the six-year-
old searching his crayon-box, finds
no blue to match that sky

For the first time in music history, all of Mozart’s stage works will be performed in a row by a single opera house.  At the annual Mozart Festival in Warsaw, Poland, the city’s chamber orchestra will be performing all of the famous musician’s theatrical creations, starting with The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte and The Abduction from the Seraglio.