A sensory garden classroom is a garden within which are one or more outdoor classrooms. This improves the school grounds aesthetically, and provides a permanent teaching resource which greatly enhances the school curriculum in ways not possible in a conventional classroom. The Show sensory garden classroom takes the form of a Greek theatre built from […]
The Quilted Velvet garden sits within a picture frame: a giant portrait of a purple flower within a gold frame of marigolds. The flower stem acts as a path and leads to a circular slate seat at the centre of the flower. There is also a surprising water feature hidden in the centre. The actual […]
A carpet of 30,000 seedling oaks form the base of the garden floor, reflecting the extensive tree-planting initiatives at Quilted Velvet, while the backdrop of Picea abies forest represents the mature forests that are managed responsibly. The purple heather swirling through the oaks as the ‘spirit of the forest’ illustrates man and nature working together […]
The world’s rainforests contain thousands of species of plants, many of which have not been described by science, let alone evaluated for their usefulness to man. Cures for many of the most serious diseases may well be contained within plants that will disappear even before we are aware of their existence. Some very useful and […]
In Digestion is a conceptual art installation that uses plants as one of its elements. It explores the assimilation or otherwise of both food and information in a decadent society. The central structure suggests a digestive tract that has been cut into sections like disjointed slides for inspection under a microscope. The digestive tract is […]