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| Aerial view over Plateau of Man Park. The addition of 4 new trees softens the landscape with rich, yet delicate detail. |
SILK ROAD 5
is just around the corner: the upcoming month of June. This year, the theme for the grid-wide hunt is Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves… a story I loved as a child, and one of the many early influences that lead to my continued interest in Asian cultures. Not only did I make
a couple decorative changes inside the House of ACCentaury to accommodate the
theme, but also, I wanted to enrich the landscaping in the park that visitors
overlook from inside the building. I went shopping, and arrived back home with
some new trees and orange flowers from Happy Mood (HPMD). Their trees are
painterly, like washes of water color. The pastel effect helped soften the old
gardens of the Plateau of Man. I removed a few of the older plantings, and laid
in 4 HPMD trees, and a small bed of flowers to relieve the uniformity of green
grass.
These few changes brought a huge difference in the feel of the park. There are not enough trees to suggest a forest, but their large trunks and generous canopy of leaves plot spaces such that the visitor sees the sites in the park as partially veiled. This is one of the things I love about trees. They are beautiful in themselves, and they also create mystery about the places behind them, which we cannot yet see in full, until traveling beyond them.
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| Bed of orange flowers encroaching on the grassy field before the Steward's Fountain. |
These few changes brought a huge difference in the feel of the park. There are not enough trees to suggest a forest, but their large trunks and generous canopy of leaves plot spaces such that the visitor sees the sites in the park as partially veiled. This is one of the things I love about trees. They are beautiful in themselves, and they also create mystery about the places behind them, which we cannot yet see in full, until traveling beyond them.
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