Topiary

Topiary

Years ago I had the idea to collect the colossal boulders that pointlessly lie shoveled together at the bottom of e few dry canals in the neighbourhood of the garden as remnants of a lost landscape and bring them to my garden by means of huge cranes and trucks, in order to give them a role in the architecture of the garden. I have abandoned that idea for practical reasons: the garden is not accessible for heavy trucks. Instead I chose to clip "boulders" of Yew and Box, that represent something -with some fantasy- besides functioning as archtitectonical features.

The Chicken Topiary: a group of Box chickens and eggs at the lawn in front of the house.

The volcano topiary: a group of "volcanos" with craters filled with fiery flowering plants (the "lava") as a steady element in the otherwise formless garden "Behind the Hedge".

THE SANHEDRIN

Half concealed behind an airy planting a multiform abstract object of Yew and Box inspired by the sculptures of Henry Moore has been put up in Kaatje's Garden, depicting . . . . . what exactly? A many-headed monster? A flock of animals looking out to all sides to keep watch over their quietly grazing offspring? Or is it a group of people? Important people wearing top hats: the Sanhedrin, the high priests in session, surrounded by their slaves.