
A Poinsettia is not just for Christmas
02.12.2014Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Founded by English gardener John Tebbs, The Garden Edit redraws the traditional boundaries associated with shopping and the garden by bringing together a modern collection of products that embody functionality, timelessness and beauty.
What an amazing gardening-video, published by "Nowness, for the culturally curious"... Enjoy.
The Zurich Succulent Plant Collection is one of the most impressive of its kind, covering more than 4750sqm and displaying over 6500 plants. We visited the collection and brought our good old 35mm camera.
by zoe | 11.02.2014 | art , tree , erwan fichou , topiary , people | 0 comments | Rating: 1 votes
It’s impossible to look at photographer Erwan Fichou’s Miradors (Spanish for ‘balconies’) collection without smiling. Each photograph features a tree, in which there is… a person. The series of photographs was inspired not by his family tree but by a vision that Erwan was haunted by, of a man that he’d seen standing in a tree who ‘looked exactly like a UFO.’
On winning an artist residency in Mexico (presumably they expected him to reside in a house rather than a tree), he worked with city gardeners to shape trees into unusual shapes and invited the public to climb into them. And many people obliged (because nobody’s parents had ever thought to warn them about strange men inviting them into… trees).
The photographs come with no narrative but allow the viewer to interpret each photograph themselves. In one particularly striking shot, a man is standing at the top of a tree with a security camera pointed at his head (CC-Tree-V?). Regardless of your interpretation, you will no doubt stop to think and, more importantly, smile. And in the end, isn’t that what art should be about?
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree - Joyce Kilmer (1913)
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