New Nitobe Garden
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New Nitobe Garden
Work's still going on (slowly) at the new Nitobe Memorial Garden at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. Here's a picture taken today.
The big rock is perhaps one that some of us wish we had in our own gardens - I don't know what it weighs, but it's at least 6 or 7 feet tall, and a good deal more of it is sunk into the ground, so it must be a good many tons.
There's a seat next to where the picture was taken from & I think it may have been put there because of this particular view of the garden. You may notice that the outline of the rock and the outline of the tall stone plaque with the Japanese characters on it that stands at the edge of the pond are similar. When viewed from this spot, I think they give a sense of balance between the two.
Bert
The big rock is perhaps one that some of us wish we had in our own gardens - I don't know what it weighs, but it's at least 6 or 7 feet tall, and a good deal more of it is sunk into the ground, so it must be a good many tons.
There's a seat next to where the picture was taken from & I think it may have been put there because of this particular view of the garden. You may notice that the outline of the rock and the outline of the tall stone plaque with the Japanese characters on it that stands at the edge of the pond are similar. When viewed from this spot, I think they give a sense of balance between the two.
Bert
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Very nice !
My wife thinks the large rock should be moved back and over to the right about a foot !
My wife thinks the large rock should be moved back and over to the right about a foot !
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and slightly towards the camera Mike?
Sam
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Mike,
I agree with your wife. The gap behind the rock, looks empty & makes the rock placement look not quite right. And the rock is a bit close to the path as well.
It would be an awful lot of work to actually move the rock (and too much work in Photoshop too!) so I made some other modifications to the picture.
In one, I cropped the picture so that the empty space isn't noticeable.
In another, I increased space between the rock & the path by removing a row of tiles.
And in the third, I hid the space behind the rock with a new shrub & a small rock & some ground cover (these copied from a picture I took in the Tea Garden of the original Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver).
I think I like effect in the third one best....
Sam - your posting arrived a few seconds ago - maybe the cropping in the first two pictures gives the impression of the rock being nearer the camera?
Bert
I agree with your wife. The gap behind the rock, looks empty & makes the rock placement look not quite right. And the rock is a bit close to the path as well.
It would be an awful lot of work to actually move the rock (and too much work in Photoshop too!) so I made some other modifications to the picture.
In one, I cropped the picture so that the empty space isn't noticeable.
In another, I increased space between the rock & the path by removing a row of tiles.
And in the third, I hid the space behind the rock with a new shrub & a small rock & some ground cover (these copied from a picture I took in the Tea Garden of the original Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver).
I think I like effect in the third one best....
Sam - your posting arrived a few seconds ago - maybe the cropping in the first two pictures gives the impression of the rock being nearer the camera?
Bert
Good work Bert
It certainly is one impressive rock
It certainly is one impressive rock
Sam
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Hi, George,
I'm not too keen on the bridge either - the red painted steel railings really are horrible.
Your mentioning it reminded me that I'd taken some pictures of the bridge a year or so ago - here's one of them. I think the bamboo railings look, in comparison, entirely in place.
My guess is that since then, somebody has ordained that bamboo isn't safe enough for unsteady hospital patients to hold on to, & that steel railings must be put there instead.
In Hong Kong, they use bamboo scaffolding when they're building skyscrapers, so I should have thought the Bamboo was amply strong enough for a little bridge rail like this.
Steel railings are bad enough, but why it was decided to paint them red is a mystery. Maybe some safety inspector insisted that red is easier for unsteady people to see & grab hold of? Good taste has certainly been cast aside.
Bert
I'm not too keen on the bridge either - the red painted steel railings really are horrible.
Your mentioning it reminded me that I'd taken some pictures of the bridge a year or so ago - here's one of them. I think the bamboo railings look, in comparison, entirely in place.
My guess is that since then, somebody has ordained that bamboo isn't safe enough for unsteady hospital patients to hold on to, & that steel railings must be put there instead.
In Hong Kong, they use bamboo scaffolding when they're building skyscrapers, so I should have thought the Bamboo was amply strong enough for a little bridge rail like this.
Steel railings are bad enough, but why it was decided to paint them red is a mystery. Maybe some safety inspector insisted that red is easier for unsteady people to see & grab hold of? Good taste has certainly been cast aside.
Bert
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Yes, the 3rd picture in the series is eye-calming. Very nice.
And it's really too bad they can't use the bamboo, it's more in keeping with the garden for certain. Very nice gardens, thanks for sharing them.
So you work on these gardens with others then?
And it's really too bad they can't use the bamboo, it's more in keeping with the garden for certain. Very nice gardens, thanks for sharing them.
So you work on these gardens with others then?
Jane (from the middle of the Mitten state)
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