Friday 26 April 2013

Tiny Gardens

How small can a garden be and still be called a garden?
Is this a garden?:
Pete Dungeys pothole gardens

How about these?:





top to bottom:
 Coleen Jordan
Erica Wiener
Unknown
Elna and Ei
Adorn Jewellery

An experimental indoor ecosystem in Dalston.

a project to inspire city dwellers to grow their own, using hydroponics and fish farming to create a green and productive indoor space:



http://farmlondon.weebly.com/farmshop.html

Two interesting garden festivals

Two interesting garden festivals:
http://www.refordgardens.com/english/festival/
and
http://www.domaine-chaumont.fr/en_festival_festival?cat=2&expandable=0
both concerned with concepts and creativity in gardening.

Garden graphics: artists and designers using green mediums.

There are a number of artists and designers out there using living green stuff to create their work. From moss graffiti to chlorophyll used to make photographic prints, this is a little round up of plantlife manipulated into art, design and typography. From waterweed used to create numbers, moss typography, photographic images printed on leaves and grass, it's plants used to make pictures and it isn't carpet bedding.


(algae terrarium from the terrain website: http://www.shopterrain.com/)



Organic chlorophyll print on jungle foliage by Vietnamese photographer Binh Danh. Images are of dead soldiers, relates to the vietnam war.

Testament by Dan Harvey and Heather Akroyd  http://www.ackroydandharvey.com/

Photographic print on grass.


Moss graffiti by Anna Garforth