This was created by artist Angela Palmer who incredibly got permission to export 9 bases of giant rainforest trees and mount them as an exhibition to demonstrate what destroying the rain forests means. They were secured from a sustainable forest in Ghana and the exhibition was originally staged after enormous logistical problems in Trafalgar Square and then at the Copenhagen climate change conference. [...]
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This garden has plenty of tranquillity near the house but as you get down the deep end there are pigs, chickens and some highly productive veg. They even have one of the intelligent seats from the last post – so it’s not all digging and delving. [...] One of the things that really struck me when we went round the Fletching Gardens was how many different types of seating had been constructed – some used a grass bank, others had frameworks of willows around them. Here are some of the ones I particularly liked. Mr Burchall's Hammock and Woodstore Willow Bower in production Peace in the Orchard A secluded Nook Turf Bench Clinton Lodge Shady Bower – Clinton Lodge I hope you find some of these interesting and inspiring. I’m going to have a crack with doing something intelligent with Willows [...] Down here in the soft underbelly of the nation we have a tradition of village garden openings. We’re smack in the middle of the season at present. Last weekend we were at Fletching which is about a mile away. On the 27th our home village, Newick has its own one. We will be supporting them with a veg and plant store on the Green. The standard is generally pretty high and at Fletching we have enough material for for several posts. So over the next few days I’m going to show things that range from what is practically a stately [...] But others, like this little gem fit so well – we again saw it on a dull afternoon and it captures perfectly the essential secretiveness of the traditional English Garden.What I particularly liked about it was the feel that it had been laid out to fit it’s environment and it combined beauty and practicality in the way that we should be striving to achieve if we want to work within a permaculture orientated framework. [...] It being the bank holiday, the memsahib and I went to visit Sissinghurst in the rain. So we had the place largely to ourselves. There aren’t that many gardens that really blow you away – but this is one of them. This was the garden created by Vita Sackville-West in the 1930s and is now part of the National Trust. For non-Brits that’s a membership organisation which gets left stately homes by feckless aristos who can no longer afford to run them and so they’re open to members. If you like English gardens its a blooming ( ) good investment. [...] Sunday afternoon we paid a visit to Wakehurst place which is quite near us – it’s a bit of Kew Gardens that’s tunnelled out and made it to the Weald where it houses the national seed bank. It has quite extensive grounds so here are a few random snaps to cheer us all up. [...] |
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