Tag Archives: garden
Ann Murtagh (via John Gallen) twasks:
Help please! Anyone know what this is called? They were very common in gardens years ago
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The 19th century boxwood topiary gardens of Château de Marqueyssac (150,000 individual trees on five km of paths open to the public) photographed by Philippe Jarrigeon.
Phillip Davis writes:
Hi, just wanted to share a video of my garden which got itself a rain blister as the ground got saturated :) took a shovel to it after the video to let the pressure out, that was strangely satisfying.
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The Shin-an-ji Rock Garden created by Japanese designer Tomonori Saito and wagashi artisan Motohiro Inaba: black sesame ‘rocks’ on a bed of sugar ‘sand’.
Arrange, rake patterns, contemplate oneness. NOM.
A glass-box ladies’ public toilet in an idyllic 200 square meter walled garden of trees and flowers beside Itabu station at Ichihara City in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects.
Enter via a locked door in the fence, enjoy the serene view, do your business, leave.
Beats the lavvy on the train. Although, this being Japan, that’s probably very nice too.
Supertree Grove is a collection of 18 solar powered metal-framed tree structures that form part of Singapore’s Gardens By The Bay redevelopment project.
The tallest ‘tree’ is 50m tall and has a restaurant built into its ‘canopy’.
(Pix: Pete Hottelet)
Ooer.
Gillian writes:
My cousin is part of a TCD-based project which is encouraging Dubliners to share gardens and give those with a lack of green space the chance to grow some of their own food. Plug plug plug.
Turn The City Green workshop, Saturday July 21 (Science Gallery)