News from the preserves, parks and backyards of Princeton, NJ. The website aims to acquaint Princetonians with our shared natural heritage and the benefits of restoring native diversity and beauty to the many preserved lands in and around Princeton.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
When Gardens Crawl Up a Wall
Someone left a bike unlocked,
in the middle of a garden.
But I doubt that anyone will steal it,
being suspended twenty feet up,
on the side of a wall,
that serves as a backdrop for a restaurant a few blocks away from the Zocolo in Mexico City.
The plants on the wall grow in little pockets of felt-like fabric,
that look like an extension of this much older approach of putting ceramic pots on a wall.
The swirly patterns of the wall garden are reminiscent of these swirls of boxwood that serve as a pruned understory in a mini-forest in a Coyoacan plaza,
and this traditional motif on a wall along a narrow street that leads to the plaza.
A post from 2009 about a similar garden in Madrid can be found at this link.
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