Kinetic Sculptures

Some video clips from Anthony Howe's sculpture garden on Orcas Island, WA. Link: Youtube

Straw Bale Garden

Straw bale gardening is a way to create a raised bed garden in areas where you normally couldn't. It is also a great way to raise a bed up high enough for someone who has problem bending or kneeling. I'm going to use a bale as a foundation for a drip to waste hydroponic system. LINK: Youtube

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Formerly a military training ground, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is now part of the famed Walker Art Center and the largest urban sculpture garden in the U.S. In this video, tour guide Gary White focuses on seven pieces of the 40 permanent installations, filling in background details and some of the park's history along the way. LINK: Youtube

Goose Picked the Right Garden

A Canada goose landed in a garden in Toms River, New Jersey with an illegal hunting arrow stuck through its chest. The garden happened to belong to retired veterinarian Bernard Levine. Dr. Levine captured the goose and removed the 26-inch arrow, which was lodged six inches deep in the bird’s flesh. Then he took the goose to a bird rehabilitation center.

“This is a smart goose,” said Dr Levine, 82. “He happened to come into the yard of a veterinarian that could take care of him.”

After it recovered at The Raptor Trust, the goose was released last week into a stream in a wooded area on the trust’s property.

“It feels great to see him free and liberated, enjoying life the way a goose should,” Dr Levine said, as the goose preened and waded downstream.

Levine also removed several air rifle pellets from the goose. Link -Via: Arbroath, Via: Neatorama

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation was created by Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick in Dumfries, Scotland in 1989. It contains unusual geometric patterns in order to inspire the mind. The mound pictured above was designed around the Fibonacci sequence. This is a private garden and open to the public only one day a year.

Link, Via: The Presurfer | Video | Official Website | Photo: flickr user Paulus Maximus! Via: Neatorama

Tribute to the Dandelion: Whimsical World Wide Weed

The humble dandelion. From your garden to almost the ends of the earth this small but conspicuous plant flourishes. Gardeners do not appreciate its presence, considering it a weed, even though its flowering usually indicates the beginning of the honey bee season. Here is a short but sincere homage to the small wonder of our botanical world. LINK

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River Whale Garden

The ‘whale’ is actually a project from Vincent Callebaut Architects called Physalia Physalis or ‘Water Bubble’, and it has a very serious point. One billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water. This vessel is designed to float up and down the rivers of Europe, purifying the water as it goes. It is of course a huge floating garden among other things, with interior gardens dedicated to Earth, Water, Wind and Fire. So in theory it would make the Thames drinkable. It is also apparently completely self-sufficient, being covered in solar panels. In fact, it is meant to produce more energy than it uses. Too bad it is only a concept for now.

Link – Via: babycreativeblog, Via: Neatorama

Wooden Stair Tower

“When David Spearman bought his new house, he thought the bottom of his garden would be perfect for a vegetable patch. The only snag was that it happened to be up a sheer 50ft cliff. Undeterred, he took inspiration from the home improvement shows he loves to watch on TV and built a wooden tower with six flights of stairs to scale the chalk cliff. The $15,000, 90-step tower, which took six months to build, not only allows the IT worker and his wife Moira to reach the end of their garden, but the top also doubles as a patio with decking, a table, four benches and a superb view of the River Medway.” LINK, Via: Unique Daily

Los Pozas Surreallist Follies

The surreal folly gardens at Xilitla were created by Edward James, an eccentric British millionaire and patron of the arts. Set into 80 acres of jungle, he and his builders spent 25 years and millions of dollars creating a nature inspired fantasy in concrete. LINK

Dancing caterpillars

All six bugs reared up with their back legs in the air to make themselves more imposing to potential predators, and look just like they're dancing.

The sight was captured by keen amateur photographer Desmond Cannon in the back garden of his home in Brae, County Wicklow, Ireland. LINK



Caterpillars found in our garden in Altos del Maria in Panama. LINK: Youtube

Timelapse Garden Video Camera

The Timelapse Garden Video Camera (henceforth TGVC) is a weatherproof digital camera that'll take interval photos and combine them into a neat 1280x1024 video file presumably via some custom software. The intervals can be anywhere from every five seconds to every 24 hours, and can shoot objects as close as 20 inches away or as far as a 54-inch wide view. It comes with a removable 2GB of storage and the battery will last for up to 4 months while taking a picture per hour. It costs $159.99, which is awfully cheap considering you'll pay about the same for a half-decent point-and-shoot that'll explode upon the first morning dew. Then how will you watch your tomato crop wither and die because you counted on God to water it for you? LINK

10 Super Creative Garden Sculptures

Only creative people are really gifted to do some amazing things with the garden plants. LINK

Bruno's Sculpture Garden

Bruno's Sculpture Garden, located 100km out of Melbourne, is one of the most delightful patches of ground on this earth. LINK: Youtube