Outdoor art installations are incredibly inspirational – not only because they showcase an artist’s expression of creativity, but they are designed to sit within a landscape giving the ideas more context than an isolated piece of artwork.
Land artist Richard Long’s Cornwall Slate Line was placed at Chatsworth in 2010. Like much of his work, it’s directly translatable to garden design. The same installation is displayed in both a gallery and garden setting, showing the versatility of the piece. It’s great to see the textures of the stone when both wet and dry – something that is often overlooked at early landscape design stages.
I am also looking forward to Burning Man installation which will open in April and runs until October. The Burning Man festival takes place in the Nevada desert and their team will be bringing 12 pieces of large scale sculpture to the Derbyshire estate.
https://www.chatsworth.org/events/burning-man/
Last week I read that The RHS no longer class slugs and snails as pests, which is great news. We should all be looking at how our gardens can work as a complete ecosystem and ensuring the natural food chain is in abundance. How can we encourage frogs and birds to our gardens if we poison slugs and snails?
I would like to add that I’d love to see a ban on all insecticides and herbicides in RHS shops, garden centres and supermarkets. Metaldehyde slug pellets are actually being banned from April 1 after a previous ban was overturned. This pesticide causes secondary poisoning of birds, frogs and other small animals, caused by eating the snails who have ingested it.
Read the full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/04/planet-friendly-rhs-to-no-longer-class-slugs-and-snails-as-pests
This article in Wallpaper magazine showcases a pocket forest to be created in Chelsea and is the result of a rewilding project between Louis Vuitton, Cadogan and SUGi. The pocket forest will see 630 native trees, plus 77 species of shrubs, which will have a positive effect on the area’s biodiversity.
While this is not rewilding in the truest sense, increasing the amount of plants and trees into a highly urban area within London must be applauded and rolled out into other cities too.
Read the full article:
https://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/louis-vuitton-sugi-cadogan-rewilding-chelsea
