through the looking glass: a surreal garden of distortion and scale
A sense of child-like fun leads this fantasy town garden project. The client’s obsession with the story of Alice in Wonderland led Carol to prune and train the four metre Taxus baccata bush into a rabbit form. Pruning topiary in this way takes a few years. The skill is to stylise the shape simply into the desired form. This ‘White Rabbit’ ended up reminiscent of the Playboy logo but this adds to the fun aspect of the living sculpture. It was a garden for ‘grown-ups’. >>>