Create a Scene, what a name right? It is the garden of floral designer Michael Bowell and the artist Simple.
This was a garden where we all (almost 100 of us) visited at the same time, instead of splitting and going to two separate gardens and then flipping. So in other words, this was a large garden...
It was also an incredibly personal garden and one I really loved exploring.
Yes, there is always an agave IF you look hard enough. Unfortunately sometimes it's not real.
While time has blurred my memories of visiting in person (what fun it was to go through the photos), I don't know that I would really have any more to say if I had posted the week after returning home. Mostly I just walked around with my mouth hanging open and my camera clicking.
There was a sort of nursery area in front the home. Not that any of the plants were for sale.
I wanted this strange shelving, seeing it again I am scheming how this would translate to my garden.
You've seen flashes of that barn red in previous photos, that indeed Michael and Simple's home.
As I explored this far off section of the garden I wondered if anyone would notice if I didn't make it back to the bus, would they come looking for me?
Luckily I made it back to the home to explore the greenhouses with my fellow Flingers.
More empty shelves...
This was all attached to the side of the home.
I think there's a pot under there, somewhere?
Greenhouses spaces are so mysterious and magical, especially when they're a little overgrown and abandoned. I was in heaven here.
Yep, I'm coveting that shelving too...
Oh look, a hot tub! Imagine wandering out of your home, through your greenhouse, and into your hot tub. Damn.
There was more than just one greenhouse structure, there was a whole series of them of different sizes and materials.
Back outside now. Here you can see the meeting of the house and the large glass greenhouse.
Fellow Flingers...
Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a cat?
The spaces in between...
And the final photo. Are you intrigued? Confused? In awe? Me too.
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Amazing how garden makers across the continent (the world!) are attracted to the same materials, benches, salvage, grouping of objects -- like we're plugged into some obscure wavelength. I mean this predates social media, right?
ReplyDeleteSurely it must? Great observation Denise.
DeleteI'm almost speechless. I adore the overgrown, what's around the corner garden. Makes me feel like a little kid. I want to spend the afternoon thrifting. What is going to happen with that first set of shelves?! I'd love to do a smaller version of that with chicken wire amass with tillandsia.
ReplyDelete"I want to spend the afternoon thrifting"... great reaction tz, so many things here that it must have taken a lifetime to accumulate.
DeleteI'm glad you found your way back! It felt like a jungle as I parsed through your photos. I love the pond featured in the photo before the faux agave.
ReplyDeleteThere were so many great smallish gathering spaces and that pond was definitely one of them.
DeleteI am sort of drawn to the creepy, far off section where someone could disappear...forever... The photobleached flamingo, the plants with their little planty faces pressed up to the windows trying to escape, the dead conifer that didn't escape... Haunting. I could do something like that. But I don't think I have the designer skills to pull it off and it would just look messy and decrepit to my eyes. I also like the absurdly tall pergola structure. I guess proof in the pudding that a garden doesn't need to be perfect to hold beauty. This was really well done.
ReplyDeleteBesides designer skills I think something like this requires years of accumulating. You'd better start now.
DeleteGenius idea with the hot tub IN the greenhouse. You can have your tub, and, er, heat it, too. I mean, you want heat and humidity to keep all those jungly plants growing so well anyway, why not use your hot tub to do both? I suppose it still needs to have some kind of cover to keep debris out most of the time, but still.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great counterpoint to some other gardens posted recently around the web. It's nice to see quirky and original (and not sooo intimidatingly perfect) getting some "love" too.
So much more interesting than the perfect gardens! I mean I like tidy, but not to the point that it feels like a showroom.
DeleteI love overgrown gardens but not so sure on the fake Agave! What a job it must be in the fall to move all the plants that cannot freeze into those greenhouses.
ReplyDeleteA job I need to get started on... (although it's to the basement, not the greenhouses).
DeleteOf course, I am the opposite. I can't wait until October to remove all the shade cloth from my plants to I can enjoy them again. People ask me all the time here if they can remove it now and I say NO! The sun is still so intense!
DeleteI love the dutch style barn, I think it's fabulous, although on the whole, this feels like a nursery going out of business.
ReplyDeleteChavli
I love that, makes me feel good to get lost in a garden. Sometimes I feel mine is just too much to “maintain” but the advantage is having a garden big enough for people to get lost in and it’s fun to find wild and hidden areas. This one is just my cuppa tea.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, that was a lovely one--lots of whimsy and great arrangements of plants and props. I seem to remember wandering a lot in this garden. Thanks for sharing the wonderful memories. :)
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