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RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show Aesthetics over action
Two garden designers talking about the rate of plant extinctions at the rate of 50 a day had designed a ‘spar garden’ with exotic plants and other plants common or garden that are going into extinction. Yes they raved about how they could decorate there spar entrance with a Ginkgo Biloba, one of the earliest trees, that has been in existence for about some 270 million years.
They don’t point out why such are going into extinction on a global in such a few hundred years. But hey they have a large bath tub and luxury bathroom in the middle of a garden museum of extinct plants! Climate change
They speak of climate change and how it will make possible the growing of more exotic plants species while the melting of polar ice caps and extinction of polar bears continues and not knowing what kind of weather we will have, crops are already failing to yield like they used and yes bio-fuel production destroys whole eco-systems and creates food shortages and the sum of information from the [‘climate change dome’ was ..We don’t know….what we will get The Garden of Denial
Gambling Environment a conceptual work by Anita Smith was criticised for being ‘too obvious’ in its concepts execution. This basically showed the sequence of neglect turning nature into a pile of rubble….yes far too obvious. Maybe they should have created a garden of denial Plant Spa
Another by Mair Ellis wasn’t so much a futuristic scenario about how we have been bad to plants but an ironic comment on the current crisis and I quote ‘This garden has been inspired by the threat posed by man to the plant environment. The theme of the garden is an imaginary world of the future, where plants we once took for granted must be protected from the harsh environment we have created… Preparing us gently
The only sensible thing said in the entire of the BBC coverage came from France
A garden by a French garden designer was perhaps a humbling experience. This basically was about what plants have done for us. And another garden also French , said it all in a mathematical arrangement of trees that represented humans where from two there were three then six then nine until there is there were so many trees (read humans) that there was only one square metre of room to stand upon rubble.
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