Our wedding anniversary wasn't just about crocodiles. We also had a jaunt out to The Delaware Road, a one day experimental music festival/dark exploration of experimental electronica based on speculative performance fiction about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was performed this year in New Zealand Farm Camp, a skirmish village used for troop training exercises in urban conflict zones.
It has a very distinct concrete-first aesthetic:
Halfway between farm outbuildings and the sort of things that happen when you leave a bored builder near a piece of land you have no particular plans for, the whole thing nevertheless feels curiously gardenish. It's outdoor, it's an area of play and pretence, it has paths and boundaries and buildings and indoor/outdoor rooms. It even has planting:
Check out that on-trend grid fencing and the native clematis picking up on the swirls of razor wire. In front, a green screen made from perfect-for-pollinators nettles. The green roof of native grasses on the minecraft-esque garden shed really completes the look.
Elsewhere I found a stumpery:
A rock garden:
Some fence-trained soft fruit (love the yellow lichen on the concrete fence panels):
A moss garden:
And one of my personal favourite garden decorations, a staircase that doesn't really go anywhere:
The maze has a certain minimalism at the moment, but the murky, mucky corners and edges carry a promise of Sow Thistle, Willowherb and Buddleia to come:
While the fences are a perfect combination of defensive planting and defensive construction:
The garden buildings have utilitarian construction and use no-frills materials, to great effect:
Note the chilli-plant and plastic lobster dash garden on the van. The porta-loos are just in for the festival of course, but projectors are cheap nowadays and simple buildings take lighting well:
Large amounts of aggregate, hard core and gravel creates a utilitarian surface which will nevertheless grow you wildflowers, no matter what height you chop it to:
Mature Trees provide screening, wind break and shelter. Zinc alloy climbing frameworks here access a water tower, but could equally lead to a breakfast platform.
This is surely going to eb the look everyone is chasing at next year's Chelsea. It's sustainable, political, low maintenance, wildflower-friendly and provides a practical reflection on and response to the unfolding apocalypse. Beautiful.
One last look at that rather fine colour scheme; concrete grey, creosote brown, nettle green, interspersed with alert sign primaries; blue, red, yellow. Grey skies bring out the best in a space like this; and rain always makes it look good.
A proper English County Garden.
It has a very distinct concrete-first aesthetic:
Halfway between farm outbuildings and the sort of things that happen when you leave a bored builder near a piece of land you have no particular plans for, the whole thing nevertheless feels curiously gardenish. It's outdoor, it's an area of play and pretence, it has paths and boundaries and buildings and indoor/outdoor rooms. It even has planting:
Check out that on-trend grid fencing and the native clematis picking up on the swirls of razor wire. In front, a green screen made from perfect-for-pollinators nettles. The green roof of native grasses on the minecraft-esque garden shed really completes the look.
Elsewhere I found a stumpery:
A rock garden:
Some fence-trained soft fruit (love the yellow lichen on the concrete fence panels):
A moss garden:
And one of my personal favourite garden decorations, a staircase that doesn't really go anywhere:
The maze has a certain minimalism at the moment, but the murky, mucky corners and edges carry a promise of Sow Thistle, Willowherb and Buddleia to come:
While the fences are a perfect combination of defensive planting and defensive construction:
The garden buildings have utilitarian construction and use no-frills materials, to great effect:
Note the chilli-plant and plastic lobster dash garden on the van. The porta-loos are just in for the festival of course, but projectors are cheap nowadays and simple buildings take lighting well:
Large amounts of aggregate, hard core and gravel creates a utilitarian surface which will nevertheless grow you wildflowers, no matter what height you chop it to:
Mature Trees provide screening, wind break and shelter. Zinc alloy climbing frameworks here access a water tower, but could equally lead to a breakfast platform.
This is surely going to eb the look everyone is chasing at next year's Chelsea. It's sustainable, political, low maintenance, wildflower-friendly and provides a practical reflection on and response to the unfolding apocalypse. Beautiful.
One last look at that rather fine colour scheme; concrete grey, creosote brown, nettle green, interspersed with alert sign primaries; blue, red, yellow. Grey skies bring out the best in a space like this; and rain always makes it look good.
A proper English County Garden.
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