Conceptual and modern take on what a garden is, the Fresh Gardens...
The AkzoNobel Honeysuckle Blue(s) Garden
The World Vision Garden
The Imperial Garden - Revive
The Sir Simon Milton Foundation Urban Connections Garden
The Garden of Potential
The Marble and Granite Centre - Antithesis of Sarcophagi
Modern Slavery Garden
Up next, a few highlights outside and inside the Floral Marquee.
Mark :-)
This gardening blog follows our journey as we create our Tropical and Exotic themed garden. We hope you'll enjoy the journey as much as we do. We started our Exotic Garden in 2005 and this site will show its development, as well as our travels, both abroad and within the UK to gardens, nurseries and friends.
Maybe I'm just in a surly mood, but these all annoyed me. There were one or two elements that I liked, but each garden did something that rubbed me the wrong way. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteFresh gardens....never fails to get strong and polarising reactions :)
DeleteBother, I didn't bump into you yesterday. Would have been nice to say hallo. The only garden that really annoyed me out of this lot was the cube.
ReplyDeleteThat's a shame, would have been nice to catch up with you!
DeleteI had the same reaction as Alan!
ReplyDeleteThe Garden of Potential makes me nervous. I'm not a fan of rocks suspended in the air. Stacked in strange ways, yes but their connection to the earth is important. Loved the lily pads in The Imperial Garden - Revive on the water but not so much in the tree. They'd be okay if they made a tree by themselves but they're battling with the living tree which is never a good idea.
ReplyDelete"Modern slavery garden"?!? I like the really lush, plant-crammed examples. The minimal ones somehow don't seem to agree with your climate--though the turf grass is eye-popping. It just doesn't grow like that here. Ever.
ReplyDeleteThese are always interesting but I couldn't get excited about any of them this year. In general, I liked the Garden of Potential best but that boulder on top of the arbor gave me the creeps. I'm sure it was explained by the brief but I still don't like it...
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