Tag Archive: landscape

PicPost: Tree Houses

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10/06/2014

houses from woven trees green renaissance

Houses woven from trees!

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Tags: design, houses, landscape, trees, woven

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PicPost: Wind Charm

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08/06/2014

PicPost: Wind Charm

‘Singing Ringing Tree’- when the wind blows

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Tags: landscape, ringing, sculpture, singing

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Green Screens

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11/04/2014

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Vertical gardening and planting seems to be taking off. If it isn’t home-made planters for herbs and the like then its mega green walls in public places. Here are a few of the latest examples I’ve come across.

: Edible wall at Atlanta Botanical Garden

: Second highest green wall- Colombia

: Steel and greenery

: Mixed verti gardening

: A green screen to help with temperature control

: All walls can be green

: You can even compost vertically- here’s a design for a wormery!

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Tags: gardening, gardens, green wall, landscape, vertical gardens

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PicPost: Lakeland Sunset

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08/03/2014

PicPost: Lakeland sunset

Coniston Old Man via the National Trust

Tags: cumbria, lake district, landscape, national trust, photo

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Over My Head #3: Canterbury realm

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26/02/2014

To conclude my photo board of my sunny trip to Canterbury here is a selection of shots of architecural detailing and other views looking up in various spots around the city….

Old School Gardener

Tags: architecture, canterbury, city, heritage, historic, kent, landscape, photo, urban

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Over My Head #2: Canterbury Cathedral

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23/02/2014

My first ‘Over My Head’ post was of architectural detailing in Canterbury High Street. The second features pictures in and around Canterbury Cathedral also taken last week, as before looking up.

Some of the newly – cleaned outside of the cathedral was looking rich and creamy gold, probably how it must have looked a thousand years ago. And the interior was as awe inspiring as you might expect for this most important of Anglican religious centres.

I find it interesting that so much trouble and effort (as well as skill) was put into making buildings and objects look great in places you wouldn’t normally expect to look, well at least casually that is. Maybe in days gone by people had their heads in the clouds more…..

Old School Gardener

Tags: architecture, buildings, canterbury, cathedral, heritage, historic, kent, landscape, photo

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Norfolk in Poetry: January Snow

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27/01/2014

OK, I’m not serious. This was how Old School Garden looked on 16th January last year. Day time temperatures were hovering around zero degrees Celsius, compared to the ‘balmy’ level of 5 today.

Still, wintry showers were forecast for today (though they haven’t yet materialised), so I thought with Janaury days fast running out, this was my best shot at publishing the latest poetry offering from Jack Kett’s anthology ‘A Late Lark Singing’. So, all I can suggest is to try and think back a year, maybe use the photo for inspiration, or perhaps more likely, just listen to Jack’s description of a snowy Norfolk January day.

‘Silently came the snow before the dawn,

And in the countryside new beauty’s born.

We see around us on this glittering morn

New wonders now revealed. Small footprints show

where birds and tiny, hungry creatures go;

Gulls, white against the sky, come swooping low,

And turn against the dazzling field to grey.

The sunbeams dancing on the snow convey

A brightness even to the sombre pines,

And where a leaf breaks through the snow it shines

With brilliance that is usually unseen

At times when all around is brown or green.

Deep winter’s here, but though chill winds may blow

They bring to us the glory of the snow.’

John (Jack) Kett

from ‘A Late Lark Singing’ (Minerva Press, 1997)

Tags: kett, landscape, norfolk, poetry, snow, winter

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PicPost: Star Struck

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07/01/2014

PicPost: Star Struck

by Ronan Mc Laughlin photography

Tags: landscape, night, photo, sky, stars

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PicPost: Step This Way

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06/01/2014

PicPost: Step This Way

Tags: forest, landscape, mist, moss, path, trees, woodland

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PicPost: Tree Art

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29/11/2013

‘This earth sculpture has been created by artist Richard Harris to draw attention to different species of trees that have traditionally been coppiced and their many characteristics and uses by people now and through history.’

Old School Gardener

Tags: art, land art, landscape, richard harris, sculpture

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Houses woven from trees!

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‘Singing Ringing Tree’- when the wind blows

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Vertical gardening and planting seems to be taking off. If it isn’t home-made planters for herbs and the like then its mega green walls in public places. Here are a few of the latest examples I’ve come across.

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Coniston Old Man via the National Trust

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To conclude my photo board of my sunny trip to Canterbury here is a selection of shots of architecural detailing and other views looking up in various spots around the city….

Old School Gardener

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My first ‘Over My Head’ post was of architectural detailing in Canterbury High Street. The second features pictures in and around Canterbury Cathedral also taken last week, as before looking up.

Some of the newly – cleaned outside of the cathedral was looking rich and creamy gold, probably how it must have looked a thousand years ago. And the interior was as awe inspiring as you might expect for this most important of Anglican religious centres.

I find it interesting that so much trouble and effort (as well as skill) was put into making buildings and objects look great in places you wouldn’t normally expect to look, well at least casually that is. Maybe in days gone by people had their heads in the clouds more…..

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OK, I’m not serious. This was how Old School Garden looked on 16th January last year. Day time temperatures were hovering around zero degrees Celsius, compared to the ‘balmy’ level of 5 today.

‘Silently came the snow before the dawn,

And in the countryside new beauty’s born.

We see around us on this glittering morn

New wonders now revealed. Small footprints show

where birds and tiny, hungry creatures go;

Gulls, white against the sky, come swooping low,

And turn against the dazzling field to grey.

The sunbeams dancing on the snow convey

A brightness even to the sombre pines,

And where a leaf breaks through the snow it shines

With brilliance that is usually unseen

At times when all around is brown or green.

Deep winter’s here, but though chill winds may blow

They bring to us the glory of the snow.’

John (Jack) Kett

from ‘A Late Lark Singing’ (Minerva Press, 1997)

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