Alice is still in Wonderland: Breezy Knees Garden 🐰🍄⏰

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All our gardens, streets and patches of sky are part of our own perception of the world. If, in our own modest back yards, we can help preserve and treasure our natural world, then we will make this planet a better place- not just for ourselves but for every living creature.

 – My Garden World, by Monty Don

Is there anything limited in British summertime? It is definitely not beer or ice cream but annuals and perennials for flowers all summer long. And we must seize the precious opportunity to visit as many as we can. 

British horticulturist and writer Monty Don describes BreezyKnees Garden as ‘a beautiful modern garden created on the grandest possible scale’. Luckily it is located in Yorkshire, so I decided to visit it this week.   

I have always been obsessed by British gardens, and even more serious after reading the story 'Alice in Wonderland'. I took 843 Coastline bus from York city centre to Breezy Knees this Wednesday. The summer is almost ended, so the weather has been quite changeable these days; after 30 minutes, I arrived but it started to rain and was quite windy.

With over 20 acres of extensive gardens featuring more than 7,000 different varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees, Breezy Knees is one of the largest gardens in Northern England. I quickly entered the garden entry – Rabbit Path – there are totally 20 gardens in Breezy Knees, I seemed to be lost in the fairy tale adventure again.

(Source: Alice in Wonderland)

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Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”   ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

 

微風膝蓋花園

我們所有的花園、街道和天空都是我們對世界的感知的一部分。如果在我們自己樸素的後院，我們可以幫助保護和珍惜我們的自然世界，那麼我們將使這個星球成為一個更好的地方——不僅對我們自己，而且對每一個生物。

 —我的花園世界，蒙蒂·唐著 

英國夏季有什麼是限定的嗎？絕對不是啤酒或冰淇淋，而是整個夏天季節開的一年生植物和多年生植物。我們必須抓住寶貴的機會，盡可能多地訪問。 

英國園藝家和作家蒙蒂·唐 (Monty Don) 將 Breezy Knees Garden 描述為“以最大可能的規模建造的美麗現代花園”。幸運的是它位於約克郡，所以我決定這週去參觀。 

我一直對英式花園著迷，讀了《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》後更加熱愛了。這個星期三，我從約克市中心乘坐了 843 Coastline 巴士到 Breezy Knees。因為夏天快結束了，這幾天天氣變化無常； 30分鐘後，我到了，但開始下雨，風很大。 

Breezy Knees 擁有超過 20 英畝的廣闊花園，擁有 7,000 多種不同品種的花卉、灌木和樹木，是英格蘭北部最大的花園之一。我很快就進入了花園入口——兔子小徑——微風膝一共有20個花園，我彷佛又迷失在了童話冒險中。

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 🐇🎀

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written by English author Lewis Carroll (his real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a British mathematician) in 1865, which was inspired when he and his friend rowed up the River Isis in Oxford in a boat with three young girls: Lorina, Alice and Edith. During the trip, Mr Dodgson told the girls a fantasy tale about a bored little girl named Alice, a restless young British girl, falls down a rabbit hole, and enters a magical world. 

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll produced this work during the Victorian era – a period of wealth, prosperity and affluence for the British people – this novel was thought to reflect his lifestyle and writing.

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Some have argued that the bizarre happenings of Alice’s journey through Wonderland, a place ruled by nonsense and incoherence, implying the reference to Victorian Britain as satire. In the scene of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we can see British social etiquette, manners and political repression elements in the Victorian Britain period; they are portrayed as the characters, such as the White Rabbit, the Queen and King of Heart, and the Duchess.

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Disney has made Alice's Adventures a live-action/animated film for many years. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter was really dramatic in 2010’s movie.

Source: Disney 

The first time I met Alice was in British library at Boston Spa – the girl standing on the wall. 

At that moment, I didn’t realise this novel is s British work. Today, I met Alice at Homestead Park, York and have a better understanding of it. I quite enjoyed wondering around the garden party without anyone there in a very hot British summer afternoon. 

The garden party started with a rabbit’s talk🐇: Oh! the Duchess! the Duchess!...

🐇🌸《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》是英國作家劉易斯·卡羅爾（本名：英國數學家查爾斯·路特維奇·道奇森）於 1865 年創作的，靈感來自於他和他的朋友在牛津與三個年輕女孩一起在伊西斯河上划船：洛麗娜、愛麗絲和伊迪絲。在旅途中，道奇森先生給女孩們講了一個關於無聊的小女孩愛麗絲的奇幻故事，一個不安分的英國小女孩掉進了兔子洞，進入了一個神奇的世界。

劉易斯·卡羅爾 (Lewis Carroll) 在維多利亞時代——英國人民富裕、繁榮和富裕的時期——創作了這部作品——這部小說被認為反映了他的生活方式和寫作。

一些人認為，愛麗絲穿越仙境的奇異事件，一個充滿胡說八道和語無倫次的地方，是暗示維多利亞時代的英國的諷刺作品。在愛麗絲夢遊仙境的場景中，我們可以看到維多利亞時代英國的社交禮儀、舉止和政治壓迫元素；他們被描繪成人物，如白兔、女王和心王和公爵夫人。 

多年來，迪士尼一直將《愛麗絲歷險記》製作成真人/動畫電影。 約翰尼·德普飾演的瘋帽子在 2010 年的電影中非常具有戲劇性。 我第一次見到愛麗絲是在波士頓溫泉的英國圖書館——那個站在牆上的女孩。 那一刻，我沒有意識到這部小說是英國的作品。 

今天，我在約克的 Homestead Park 遇到了 Alice，對它有了更深入的了解。 在一個炎熱的英國夏日午後，我非常喜歡在沒有人的情況下在花園派對上閒逛。 

花園派對從兔子的談話開始：哦！ 公爵夫人！ 公爵夫人！...