Nature walk

Category: Miscellaneous | Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:49 am

This morning I gave my occasional 'back to nature' walk in the garden a miss as it was raining. I don't mind the cold for a few minutes - it helps to wake me up.
But at this time of year it has to at least be in trainers or your feet freeze to the paving.
Strangley enough, I haven't had a cold since, I think, 2003, which isn't bad going.
The couple who owned the place before were naturists, so they made the garden secluded enough, and I haven't had to do much extra screening to obtain privacy. Just some extra fencing in one corner.
After adding the rush screening to the pool, the decision has been made to try to turn the pool area somehow into a desert island theme. How, I don't know yet. Plants with tropical looks can be grown quite well here, but anything big enough to look right will cost a fortune to ship in from the garden centre. So alternative ideas will be considered. I think maybe a discreet splash of African art colour and design might be a start.
Some exotic planting could be artificial - not a road I'm keen on going down - but if it's done in a designy way suggesting foliage rather than trying to imitate it authentically, it might work.
For instance, using very thick wire/rodding, or whatever, to form the outlines of fronds of palm leaves, without it looking like part of a theme park.
Something like this, sprayed green, bunched together, etc.

I've used mains wire bound round with garden wire to help retain the shape.

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eileen wrote on Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:00 am:

Mmmmm Pete I'm not sure about the wire and rodding leaves. I'm going to do a bit of reseach for you to see what I can come up with. There's bound to be a way to make your pool area look tropical that won't cost and arm and a leg.

devonpete wrote on Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:23 am:

...any suggestions will be gratefully received Eileen. Not that it has anything much to do with this project, I'm still trying to find a website I looked at about a year ago which showed some very colourful garden sculptures in painted metal, etc. Very colourful. Darned if I can find it again.