Garden tour without that much garden

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We had been looking forward to the garden tour of the Cloisters.


But, it turns out that a lot of the garden tour is indoors.


It is very nice to be told how the garden design was derived and what it was based on. How the architecture of it developed. How they know what plants should be in it and how they were grown.
But, I had expected to actually go into the garden.

After that talk, we set off again.
This time to look at plants shown in tapestries.


Again, interesting about how the tapestries show plants and what plants are used in coloring them.


It is more of what I would have expected from a tapestry tour, or a tour about plants used and show in tapestries.

But, we set off again to a different place. The gardens?
No, more tapestries.


It is very interesting about the imagery used and how certain plants shown mean different things. And, how some tapestries have very good representation of the plants and some don’t.



Finally, after about half an hour indoors, the garden tour headed into the garden.


My wife was very happy to be out in the garden.


We did see a lot of plants used in making the tapestries, and it was very interesting.


And some of the poison plants were explained.


I had looked for the “magic plants” we saw last time we were there, but it was explained to me that they were now called “medicinal plants” because the title “Magical Plants” gave the wrong impression.

I thought the cabbage looked very tasty. But, I guess it is reserved for a special dinner for folks who give $20,000 to the museum.

So, not for us.

It was an interesting tour, but I’m still not sure it should be called a Garden Tour when less than half of it is in the garden.