A look for 2020 that I'm really feeling has found its moment is Disaster Gardens. These are the accidental gardens that spring up (or are sometimes gently encouraged to spring up) in the wake of disasters. This came from Abandoned Engineering, specifically a spot on Kinzua Bridge.
Here are a couple of pictures (not by me) that really show the grandeur and beauty of the collapsed viaduct bridge. Look at how the rust construction contrasts with the bright seasonal flowers, the green shrubs!
The soft planting, contrasting with the sharp angled metal twisted into organic shapes by unimaginably powerful forces, are simultaneously a reminder of the raw, violent, unstoppable power of nature; and it's ability to renew, recover and reclaim.
Here's a little video wander around the Bridge. You don't need audio on and you might want to skip the herd of Elk at the end, but it captures beautifully the three-dimensional sweep of the girder garden (and its slightly minecraftish viewing skywalk).
Obviously you can't work at this scale in a back garden (or even a show garden) but there's inspiration to be had here, in the tortured steel, the concrete piles, the massive rivets drowning slowly in moss and overgrowth.
If you're interested in what happened to Kinzua Bridge, including the details of how it got shredded, here's the original spot from Abandoned Engineering that reeled me in:
Here are a couple of pictures (not by me) that really show the grandeur and beauty of the collapsed viaduct bridge. Look at how the rust construction contrasts with the bright seasonal flowers, the green shrubs!
The soft planting, contrasting with the sharp angled metal twisted into organic shapes by unimaginably powerful forces, are simultaneously a reminder of the raw, violent, unstoppable power of nature; and it's ability to renew, recover and reclaim.
Here's a little video wander around the Bridge. You don't need audio on and you might want to skip the herd of Elk at the end, but it captures beautifully the three-dimensional sweep of the girder garden (and its slightly minecraftish viewing skywalk).
Obviously you can't work at this scale in a back garden (or even a show garden) but there's inspiration to be had here, in the tortured steel, the concrete piles, the massive rivets drowning slowly in moss and overgrowth.
If you're interested in what happened to Kinzua Bridge, including the details of how it got shredded, here's the original spot from Abandoned Engineering that reeled me in:
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