Escape Gardening

[squirmelia]

A van had the words "Escape Gardening" written on it. Instead of thinking that they merely help you escape gardening, I instead thought about ways that they improve your garden to help you escape - hollow trees to hide in, giant beanstalks to climb, those kind of things.

Regina Spektor sang to me, "some said the local lake had been enchanted".

Comments

[treefern.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would hire the second version for sure. I want a tree house with an emergency slide over the back fence cunningly hidden by a hinged shelf (ideal for storing collections of leaves and sticks).

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

A tree house with an emergency slide sounds like a good idea.

I'm now thinking what "No Escape Gardening" would involve. Far too scary. A hedge maze that you can never escape from. Triffids.

[kevandotorg.livejournal.com]

This list of burglar-spiking plants (http://www.met.police.uk/crimeprevention/garden.htm) would presumably be the bread and butter of No Escape Gardening. I imagine the giant rhubarb serves as a decoy triffid.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

That does look like a good list! Giant rhubarb is great.

I am also thinking of poison gardens, like the one at Alnwick.

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

To me "Escape Gardening" sounds like a cousin of Eco-Tourism"... you get away from the city for perhaps a long week-end, stay in a cottage with a lovely garden which you spend your days tending (under close professional eye).

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

I've just realised what this has to be. It's existing within the 'walled gardens' that increasingly make up the internet (facebook, twitter, &c), while making it harder for you and your friends to become trapped in them.

Or, since this topic deserves to look more beautiful, imagine yourself as a sunflower in a walled garden: growing high enough to see the outside world; relaying the news back inside; inspire a platoon of ants to climb up your back, bend you towards the wall, and march to freedom.

Just, entirely in silico.