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A large field of planted water spinach - water morning glory. Actually completely obsolete such farming as water spinach grows in abundance wild in sufficient quantities for any commercial use.
A simple farmers rule is to never plant on agriculture fields if you can have the same variety in wild from nature. Just care more and better for nature and you get all water spinach from nature, leaving the use of such rare fields to those plants that may need care to grown. Water spinach is completely maintenance free!
The water spinach here blossoms in both colors, plain white blossoms and also with lilac water spinach blossoms.
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Tiny beautiful macro world of the lily ponds of Cambodia.
For macro photo of these smallest white water lilies, see my earlier picture from dwarf lotus.
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A few years ago if someone had mentioned gabions I wouldn't have known what they were talking about. They were something that was used in civil engineering, large scale industrial landscaping - a million miles away from domestic gardens. Now it seems they are becoming the cool thing to have.
Basically a gabion is a metal - usually steel, cage filled with stones/rocks or various heavy materials. They are usually used to retain soil in banks and terraces or as barriers. I've seen taller, slim ones used as a wall and smaller, cubed ones made into seats - the permutations are endless, as demonstrated by the two young designers of the Visionary garden, Cubed3, at this year's Tatton.
On the Edible Trends garden the Reaseheath College team have filled their gabions with carefully placed layers of stones and wood in decreasing sizes, creating a very pleasing pattern and a haven for wildlife. Apparently it took them ages to do but it looks fantastic.
A very 'green' way to fill your gabions is with odd bits of bricks, slates and tiles left over from building jobs, plus any empty bottles you may have accumulated. This is what they have used on A Place for Waste, another gold medal winning garden.
As you look around the show you will see all sorts of shapes and fillings and gabions used in many ways. I am feeling quite inspired and am planning to try something with sempervivums and I rather like the idea of turf cubes.
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