Piece by Piece

The Glass Trumpet

Many months ago we began the task of converting broken waste glass into a usable material for the Organic Garden Project. This glass now features as a "pebble" like ground material that is both striking in its beautiful patterned placement, but also genuinely intriguing to visitors who seem both impressed and confused by its use. More than the love of this pointy material, or the dire need for its successful conversion, this small victory is the perfect example of our "never say die" mentality.

The central seating and ornamental garden bed was designed to create a comfortable space for visitors to acclimatize to the ideas and concepts we are presenting throughout the garden. 

This central garden bed will contain a constant rotation of beautiful flowering plants, for the purpose of installing a hub of smell and color that will relax and inspire. The flowering plants located centrally in the garden will also encourage pollinating insects to travel across our vast vegetable garden, essentially helping create our vegetables as they go.

Next we will install a trellace system for potted climbing gourds such as Ampalaya. At the base of the trellace (where the glass "rays" meet in the centre) we will construct circular seating that will allow visitors to look outwards at the surrounding garden, eventually shaded by the canopy above.

 

Creativity abounds as every scrap piece of material on site finds a new home. In this case scrap pallet wood, broken glass and bamboo form a beautiful pattern down the central pathway of the garden.