Ailsa of “Where’s My Backpack?” has been pondering her visits to gardens around the world this week. If you would like to join in with her challenge then please do. Everyone is welcome.
And I am combining this with the Weekly Photo Challenge from WordPress: Inside.
As some of you will know I do have another blog which is specifically for flowers – Earth Laughs in Flowers – and if you click this link you will be able to read about some of the gardens I have been enchanted by and see some lovely flowers and plants.
But for this challenge I am going to show you some of the odd sculptures and statues that have caught my eye whilst wandering inside the gardens, beginning with the infamous Eden Project in Cornwall.
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Next is a visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
And finally a few sculptures that have appeared in my favourite garden, RHS Wisley in Surrey.
What unusual things have you found in a garden?
Very resourceful, Jude 🙂 I rather like the wicker coffee pots.
Wicker coffee pots – I’d never thought of them as that, but yes you could be right 🙂
Love the Bee, and the Wicker Pears. I don’t usually like metal sculptures outdoors, but the cow works really well.
Regards as always, Pete. x
The wicker pear was lovely, my youngest grandchild used to love hiding inside it. Shame it’s no longer there. I thought the bull was very strange!
Wow, they are so unique!
Thanks for visiting Witrian 🙂
Curiouser and curiouser…!
I visit gardens because I love plants, but I’m often distracted by the sculptures that pop up in them now and again. 😀
You win, hands down, for the most unusual sculptures in a garden, love the ginormous bee, but the whatever-it-is in the third pic down is just down-right scary. It looks like something from a syfy alien movie!
Haha, thanks Iris! Because I post a lot about flowers and gardens on my other blog I wanted to show a different aspect of gardens. And I agree about the WEEE man, he is built out of recycled electrical components – very clever!
🙂 I like your blog, keep up the good work. 🙂
Thank you *blush*
Wisley is a great place to see different sculptures – they usually have a really good display at the end of the summer and many of the pieces are for sale (at a price!)
My favourite picture here though is the Pi – so simple, very effective!
Yes Pi is good, unfortunately I didn’t get it at the right angle as it is intended to frame (in the circle) a folly ‘Paxton’s Tower’ on a nearby hill.
I love garden scultures and those wicker pears are really appealing.
Thanks Francesca. It’s fun discovering unusual things in gardens 🙂
Wow, odd is one word but they are so interesting and original they make for a great post! My “garden” idea looks pretty boring right now… maybe I’ll rethink what I chose to post for tomorrow. 🙂
I like to look at these challenges in a different way, I figured that most people would blog about a garden (and indeed I do on my flower blog) so I tried to think ‘outside the box’ I’m very happy that you enjoyed the post ;-D
What an excellent selection! Why did you refer to the Eden Project as ‘infamous’?
I was using the word as ‘notorious’ rather than in a bad way, although I do think the price they charge for admission is daylight robbery.
People have wonderful imaginations. Some of these are great, some I don’t think I’d put in my garden 🙂
You’d need a very large garden for most of these Judy, although I wouldn’t object to the wicker sculptures. (If I had a garden that is) 🙂