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The “GREEN” House

27 Sunday Jul 2014

Posted by in Cape Town, Flowers, Garden Art, Gardens, Organic, South African Endemic

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DSC_0015 DSC_0014 DSC_0018 DSC_0020 DSC_0021 DSC_0022 DSC_0023 DSC_0024 DSC_0026 DSC_0044 DSC_0045 DSC_0046 DSC_0047 DSC_0048The Greenhouse at Montebello is anything but your average commercial nursery. Hidden away in the picturesque Southern suburbs of Cape Town, the Greenhouse is a boutique nursery offering a spectacular array of flowering plants, shade plants and traditional garden plants, arranged in a unique and distinctive style which is at once inspiring and comforting – like taking a walk through an exquisite private garden. The Greenhouse is grown and managed as a completely organic nursery. This means that the ecosystem is in perfect equilibrium encouraging squirrels, frogs and other small creatures to take up residence here.

A walk on the Wild side

11 Friday Jul 2014

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Good Hope Nursery

Aloe Arborenscens making a wonderful display

Euphorbia Medusa Caput

Euphorbia Medusa Caput

 

Quaint seating

Quaint seating

The Nursery

The Nursery

Meilianthes

Melianthus

 

Vetplant Voetpad

Vetplant Voetpad

 

a quiet place

a quiet place

Restios standing proud

Restios standing proud

artistic stump

artistic stump

 

Good Hope Gardens Nursery stocks a comprehensive range of indigenous plants and trees.

http://www.goodhopegardensnursery.co.za

Khoisan Elephant Painting

10 Saturday May 2014

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The paint is made from soft rock called ochre, coloured either red, maroon or yellow from the iron oxide. The ochre was ground between two stones and mixed with, water, blood and plant juices to make paint. Red  ochre paint lasts well as it bonds with the rock. Paint brushes were made from animal hair, feathers and reeds.

Red Hot and Cool Greens

06 Monday Jan 2014

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Red Hot Chilli Scorpion

Red Hot Chilli Scorpion

This entire landscape has been created using food.

Pictures of food and pictures of art do well on the internet, so London-based photographer Carl Warner wised up and combined the two into a deliciously creative and ingenious set of landscapes crafted entirely out of food called ‘Foodscapes.’ The 25-year veteran advertisement photographer came up with the idea to photograph clever arrangements of cabbage oceans, mashed-potato mountains and salami rivers roughly 10 years ago, but only in 2008 did it receive international recognition. Since then, he has continued developing the idea, using his experience with artificial lighting and tabletop photography to create new delicious foodscapes. Would you hang one of these on your wall?

Broccoli Forest

Broccoli Forest

Website: carlwarner.com

 

 

Francisco Montes Shuña paintings

12 Saturday Oct 2013

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The work of Peruvian shamanic artists Montes Shuna and Panduro Baneo, showing a spiritual connection between plants and people.

 

He sometimes uses psychoactive plant infusions, ayahuasca, to create the visions which are the source for his paintings.

The origin of Ayahuasca
The Spirit
The spirit woman of Ajo Sacha
The birth of the Spirits
The Dance of the Spirits
The Dance of the leaves
Spirit Woman of the tree
The Spiritual birth
Spirit Woman of MachacuyHuasca

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The WEEE Man

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Giant sculpture made of waste
The WEEE Man is a 3.3-tonne structure which represents the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) the average British household throws away in a lifetime.

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