This French landscape designer creates amazing optical illusions
François Abélanet is a landscape designer who uses geometry and perception to trick your mind and create these amazing optical illusions.
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Garden of the week – Pipe Dream
“Pipe Dream” was designed for the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show as an antidote to hectic & noisy city life.
Welcome to the Blindfold Mowing Olympics
There’s a new extreme sport in town — The Blindfold Mowing Olympics. The sport was invented by the Mower Gang, a volunteer group who give up their free time to maintain overgrown public spaces in their native Detroit, USA.
Garden of the week – Gasholder No 8, London
A grade-II listed gasholder in King’s Cross has been lovingly restored and converted into a unique urban park.
How to make a grass day bed
Watch Australian gardener Jason Hodges build a wooden bed complete with a grass covering and planter headboard.
The man who built a nuclear bunker in his back garden
What would you do if you were told the world was going to end in 34 days? That question was put to British Youtuber Colin Furze. His answer was to build the ultimate apocalyptic bunker/man-cave right under his back garden.
Garden of the week – Verdenskortet, Denmark
On the edge of Lake Klejtrup in Denmark, you can walk around a giant map of the world made entirely out of stones and grass.
Garden of the week – Where the River Runs by Penda
Created by architecture firm Penda for China’s International Garden Expo 2015, Where the River Runs has been designed to highlight the global water crisis.
Garden of the week – Timber Megaphones
Students from the Estonian Academy of Arts have created these giant timber megaphones, designed to amplify the natural sounds of the forest.
How to pick the right gardening tool for the job (Infographic)
Use this excellent infographic to choose the right garden tool for the job every time.