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Chelsea Fringe – The Alternative Garden Festival
Saturday marks the start of this years Chelsea Fringe. Here are just a few of the fascinating events you can go and see… Making Meadows, Strawberry Hill House Walks, talks and free entry to the garden as a wildflower meadow is planted on the visitor centre roof. Operation Deep Freeze The culinary fantasies of Willy Wonka are explored in this edible garden project, where your home produce will be turned into ice-cream… let’s hope for warm weather and weird flavours! The Pansy Project, London, Brighton and Bristol Marking the International day against Homophobia and Transphobia, a single pansy will be placed where hate crimes …
Ryoan-ji
Last November the Modern Mint team went to view the gardens of Japan (and eat sushi, in vast quantities.) This picture, at the famous Zen garden of Ryoan-ji, was taken at 7.50am on a Monday morning. Hence the privacy. There are 15 stones in the garden, but only 14 can be viewed at any one time from the platform. It is said that if you gain enlightenment the fifteenth stone will be revealed to you. We didn’t find enlightenment, but we did have to get up early, take three buses and then knock on the temple door asking to be allowed in in order to get any time …
Woodpeckers, Essex, NGS
We visited the 1 1/2 acre garden Woodpeckers at Burnham on Crouch over the last bank holiday weekend. It felt like a bigger garden than this, split as it was into different spaces each with their own atmosphere. What we liked most was that each space was clearly defined. It takes a brave owner to do that,to take the plunge and not dilute the quality each space in the garden has been asked to provide. The meadows in the orchard were beautiful at this time of year… … at least we thought so. We overheard one visitor say, “it’s all just managed weeds,” as …