Neatly clipped boxwood orbs seem to roll across a path at Madoo, artist Robert Dash's garden in Sagaponack, NY. These sturdy spheres enliven this spot, and make the trunks of the gingko trees look like giant mallets in an ongoing game of croquet.
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- Steve Silk
- Farmington, CT
- Blogging about gardens, travel, and the cosmos. Basically,I'm a home gardener who's gone round the bend. I became interested in plants more than 20 years ago, during extended travels in tropical South America and Southeast Asia. Some of the tropical plants seen during those journeys, along with hundreds of other plants from all parts of the world, now grow in my ever-expanding garden. I’m a former newspaper photographer, travel writer and was managing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. I now design, write about, and photograph gardens. I give lectures about them too.
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6 comments:
I love Buxus, have a few much smaller specimens I am training in my own garden.
The juxtaposition of the spheres and uprights always looks good, all through the year. Better still when frosted.
The spheres make a wonderful sight all year through. Maybe the trees are golf clubs. Fore! :D
Zoe-I love buxus too--such simple structure, and with enough good structure, you're free to run wild. My question is how do you get them so PERFECTLY spherical? Mine tend to look more like eggs, or gumdrops.
How playful that looks.
Hi Pam--this is a garden where capital letters are used to spell FUNl letters. It's full of whimsical stuff. He even paints the chairs several times a season to match whatever's in bloom.
Hello HHG-Yes the spheres are rolling through the garden all year long. Structure with a sense of humor. Might be right about the trees-play on through!
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