Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
We finished off last week with some shots from the ruins garden at Chanticleer, and this week we have just a few more. Let me know if this is getting boring! (I doubt it…)
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
I’m not sure what this industrial relic is (anyone?) but it is the perfect accent for this pergola post, with diminutive succulents planted in each vessel.
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
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looks like water wheel buckets
When I first saw the title I thought not another Chanticleer photo but I was sooo wrong. This was worth it. It is such a unique thought. I automatically started thinking, how can I adapt this in my garden, maybe on my fence post? Thanks for a great idea.
I've read through the Chanticleer garden web site several times since your photos series. It seems a water wheel in 1940 brought water from the stream garden to the pool area.
I've enjoyed your photo series of the gardens at Chanticleer.
That sure looks like a section from an antique bucket-wheel excavator, still used today but far larger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator
In the book, Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden, Adrian Higgins (author) writes
'The house begins to break down at this point; the pillars have lost their stone cladding and are now wooden posts. They hold chain-linked iron buckets, built to move coal from one floor to another in a downtown Philadelphia church that was demolished in the 1990s. They now contain burro's tail (sedum morganianum) and other succulents.'
Fascinating.
A perfect form of recycling... and vertical gardening! Very cool.
Very,very nice!!! The succulents are gorgeous!!
wardvon, thank you so much for going to the trouble of looking that up. what a fascinating bit of mechanical history.and what a cool reuse!
best,
mindy
http://www.cottonarboretum.com/
I've been enjoying all of these photos and, living in Western PA, I'm starting to think about a weekend trip to the other end of the state to see them in real life, thanks to you. I'd love to see the seasonal changes, too. Keep them coming!
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